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Hail and farewell!

posted 12 years ago by mousalope
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This being 1938 I'm surprised the Marx Brothers and Lucy Ball would use a Nazi-reminiscent gesture other then to mock politics. The boys and Lucy too were all strongly anti-fascist. Of course the scene was totally apolitical but in context of the time it's a bit on the nose. Lucy especially does it perfectly.

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[–] mageestout 12 years ago

Not sure if that was done on purpose.

However - if you hear when they do the actual play there is the use of "commrade" and it seems to be some capitalist vs. the workers theme to it.

I wonder if the stage version of ROOMSERVICE was had more overt political parts.

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