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Tables of Contents for The Essential Groucho
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
``I know that you are true to the Army. I only hope it remains a standing Army.''
The Napoleon Sketch from I'll Say She Is!
3
10
``You can even get stucco---oh, how you can get stucco.''
Dialogue from The Cocoanuts
13
8
``One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.''
Dialogue from Animal Crackers
21
7
``You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer.''
Dialogue from Monkey Business
28
4
``There'll be no diving for this cigar.''
Dialogue from Horse Feathers
32
5
``Go, and never darken my towels again!''
Dialogue from Duck Soup
37
9
``I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters.''
Dialogue from the lost radio shows, Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
46
26
``You haven't got a baboon in your pocket, have you?''
Dialogue from A Night at the Opera
72
7
``Say, you're awfully large for a pill.''
Dialogue from A Day at the Races
79
8
``I had dinner with my celebrated pen pal, T. S. Eliot.''
From the Groucho Letters
87
26
``Right from the feeding.''
Covering Groucho
113
13
``I am sometimes jealous of my past.''
From fugitive comic pieces and articles
126
83
Groucho Marx
``I'll never forget my wedding day . . . they threw vitamin pills.''
Selections from You Bet Your Life
209