"The only man who can strut while sitting down"--Inherit the Wind
Sunday afternoon I saw the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera at the Revue. It was their first movie without Zeppo, having moved from Paramount to MGM. It was their biggest financial success, but it isn't my favourite of theirs. (That's Horse Feathers!) Parts of it are very funny, but there's a really lame romantic plot between Alan Jones (in the Zeppo role) and Kitty Carlisle. There's also a bad-guy opera star who slaps Harpo around, as annoyingly obvious as Billy Zane in Titanic. (Part of the movie is set on an ocean liner.)
Thursday night the History Discussion Group watched the video of Stanley Kramer's movie of Inherit the Wind, a fictional play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial. It's a pretty good adaptation, with veterans Spencer Tracey and Frederic March in fine form as veteran lawyers.
Today I went to a history walk in High Park. It was hosted by Trevor, who has a video company in the Junction that emphasizes the Steam Punk fashion. I met Martha, whom I haven't seen since we were in Nancy's acting class. That reminded me of how we did the exercise in that class of creating a character from scratch, and I came up with a socialist revolutionary from 1914. (Trevor's character was from 1880 or so.)
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