Great to know!
Happy T. Day Bob!
Trudi
>From: "Robert A. Rothstein"
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: Re: Yiddish in 1930's musical cartoon.
>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:16:37 -0500
>
>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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