“Last week Italy, in the throes of its ruler’s new-found affection for Germany, began to take up the ban on Chaplin. For good measure, it threw in [the Marx Brothers, too]... The official explanation does not seem to give the answer. The Fascist newspaperIl Tevere speaks of a Marx Brothers production, A Night at the Opera, as being ‘a perfect example of the degenerated quality of the Jewish race’ and calls their antics ‘only a big bluff. Their clowning may succeed in drawing a smile from servants, but Italians do not need to take delight in their stupidity.'”
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