August 28, 1930 –
… That’s a fine letter, Jamison, that’s an epic. That’s dandy. Now, I want you to make two carbon copies of that letter and throw the original away. And when you get through with that, throw the carbon copies away. Just send a stamp, airmail, that’s all. You may go, Jamison. I may go too. …
The Marx Brothers second outing at Paramount, Animal Crackers, opened on this date.
The film parodies several contemporary plays, most notably when Groucho Marx’s character Captain Spaulding has an interior dialogue concerning his marriage proposals to two different women. The scene was meant to lampoon Eugene O’Neill’s play “Strange Interlude.” Indeed, besides directly referencing Eugene O’Neill, Groucho at one point breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience, “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.“
The Haus of Dcaligari 