Morrie Ryskind, Henry Wishcamper, Bert Kalmar, George S. Kaufman, Harry Ruby
This hallmark of Marx Brothers lunacy was revived on stage by Chicago’s Goodman Theater and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. Audiences flocked as critics applauded the antics of Captain Spalding and company at Mrs. Rittenhouse's ritzy weekend gathering.
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Morrie Ryskind, the librettist of Louisiana Purchase, was born in New York City in 1895 and graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism. His principal collaborator in the theater was George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote the Marx Brothers musical Animal Cracke ...
Bert Kalmar (1884-1947) and Harry Ruby’s collaboration spanned from the 1920s to 1940s, and took them from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway and eventually to Hollywood. Born in New York in 1884, Kalmar performed as a magician in tent shows and in vaudeville before founding a music p ...
George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh in 1889. During his early career as a reporter and drama critic , he began to write for the theatre. For 40 years, beginning in 1921 with the production of Dulcy, there was rarely a year without a Kaufman play — usually written in coll ...
Harry Ruby (1895-1974) and Bert Kalmar’s collaboration spanned from the 1920s to 1940s, and took them from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway and eventually to Hollywood. Born in New York in 1884, Kalmar performed as a magician in tent shows and in vaudeville before founding a music p ...
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