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Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African Explorer! The Marx Brothers descended on Hollywood in 1930, and Animal Crackers remains one of their sharpest, most anarchic masterpieces — a film that gleefully dismantles every convention it touches while Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo do exactly as they please. Nearly a century old and not a joke has aged a day. Watching classic comedy like this in a 1928 historic theatre in the heart of Newark, Ohio feels like exactly the kind of evening the Midland was built for. Licking County's big screen, one of Hollywood's greatest comedy treasures.
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