Marx Brothers the Beaugard painting is stolen, so the script was contrived to include a power failure, which allowed Zeppo to play the Spaulding part in near-darkness.) In December 1917 the Marx brothers were noted in an advertisement playing in a musical comedy act "Home Again". By the 1920s, the Marx Brothers had become one of America's favorite theatrical acts, with their sharp and bizarre sense of humor. They satirized high society and human hypocrisy, and they became famous for their improvisational comedy in free-form scenarios. A famous early instance was when Harpo arranged to chase a fleeing chorus girl across the
Marx after Sraffa after Sraffa" as another critique of Marx's "Capital", and accused Steedman of misunderstandings of Marx similar to those made by Paul Sweezy in his "The Theory of Capitalist Development" (1942). Marx after Sraffa Marx after Sraffa is a 1977 book about Marxist economics by the economist Ian Steedman, in which the author argues against the labor theory of value. Steedman has been criticized for alleged misunderstandings of Karl Marx. The economist Heinz D. Kurz reviewed "Marx after Sraffa" in "Kyklos". The political scientist David McLellan wrote in the 1995 edition of his "" that Steedman's reading of Marx has been