Re: Yiddish in 1930's musical cartoon.

[Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>]

Trudi Goodman wrote:

> My favorite Yiddish moment is from The Grouch.
>
> Animal Crackers. When he comes out in a Pith Helmut and sings:
>
> My name is Captain Spaulding the African Explorer..did someone call me 
> schnorrer?
>
>
       S. J. Perelman (not the least of whose accomplishments were the 
scripts he wrote for the Marx Brothers) had a piece called  "I'll Always 
Call You Schnorrer, My African Explorer" (reprinted in his collection 
_The Most of  S. J. Perelman_) about an alleged meeting with Groucho in 
1916.

Bob Rothstein


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