
Admission is $12 - and maybe the secret password "Swordfish. It can be anything from a noun describing a plausible yet fictional country, to an adjective ('Freedonian') used to characterize a place like the Freedonia of Duck Soup. Put on your best spats and join the Marx Brothers Speakeasy Party at Flute Midtown, 205 W. Freedonia, Fredonia or Fredon is the name given to several fictional countries.The term Freedonia was later popularized by the 1933 Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.Over time, however, the word has come to have a more generic meaning. "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" leads the set list of Music of the Marx Brothers at 54 Below, 254 W.

Bader and Groucho's pal Dick Cavett will show TV clips and home movies of the Marxes at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St., next Sunday at 7 p.m.

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is nothing, compared with 'At the Opera', 'Room Service' and others but it is wonderfully 'primitive', beyond 'Animal Crackers' (closer to the first Marx Brothers stage play) made as a movie soon after. 23rd St.) hosts free screenings of the boys' movies Thursdays in May at 2 p.m., starting with "A Night at the Opera." Tickets are $12 for the Museum of Modern Art's showing of "Duck Soup" on May 22. With the music which should be background, in the foreground shows another lost style of music makings. The New York Public Library's Epiphany Branch (228 E.

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Here are some highlights (for a full list, visit ). It's a big deal being marked by Marxfest, a monthlong festival of Marx Brothers events in Manhattan starting Thursday. May marks 100 years since Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Gummo Marx got their monikers at a poker game (Zeppo replaced Gummo in 1918). Hooray for Captain Spaulding, and the brothers who made him famous.
