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Harpo

About Me

A little under average height. Slow and easy of movement. Eyes, green. Hair might have been brown once; now too wispy to tell. Mostly known for red curley hair, though due to black and white film most think I'm a blonde and in some ways I am. Complexion, golf player's tan. No distinguishing features except possibly eyebrows, which are usually raised. Could indicate either bafflement or curiosity. Hard to tell which. Inconspicuous in a social gathering. Apt to sit quietly with hands spread on edge of table, smiling at anybody who passes by. Occasionally says something out of corner of mouth that nobody seems to hear. Age impossible to tell. Could be older than I look, or prematurely mature. Self-taught harpist. Vaudevillian, Broadway Star, Movie Personality, member of the Algonquin Round Table. I have no business being any of these things, I can't read a note of music, I never finished the second grade, but I was having too much fun to recognize myself as an ignorant upstart.

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I'd like to meet:

I've already met everyone really interesting such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Greta Garbo, Prince of Wales, George Gershwin, George Bernard Shaw (asked me for adviice once), Oscar Levant, Somerset Maugham, Elsa Maxwell, Alexander Woollcott, Alice Duer Miller, Dorothy Parker, Irving Berlin, George Kaufman, William Randophy Hearst (the food is good at his place), Marc Connelly, Harlod Ross, Sam Behrman, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, Ethel Barrymore, Benchley, Swope. However, if you're funny and like to play cards I'd like to meet you.A Day at the Races

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The Quiet Life

The Quiet LifeBy Harpo MarxIf there is anything distinctive about me, it's the one thing the public knows least aboutmy voice. I still talk with an East-93rd-Street-New York accent. The way I pron...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:12:00 GMT

Working Russia as Exapno Mapcase

EXAPNO MAPCASE, SECRET AGENTBy Harpo Marx "I've decided," [said Alexander Woollcott] "that Harpo Marx should be the first American artist to perform in Moscow after the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. become f...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:44:00 GMT

Pranks

TWO REAL LIVE PRANKSBy Harpo Marx My dalliance with the fine arts didn't go to my head, I'm happy to say. When I got back to New York I found I hadn't lost the old touch. The first day in town, Chic...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:15:00 GMT