Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939

Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences—a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia.

She can give you a view of the world in tattoo

If you step up and tell her where.

For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree,

Or Washington crossing the Delaware,

Oh Lydia, oh, Lydia, say have you met Lydia,...

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