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
Karl Marx and the Close of His System their "positivist narrowness". The Marxist economist Paul Sweezy rejects Bawerk's view that the theory of value must be abandoned. However, he considers "Karl Marx and the Close of His System" to be the best statement of the argument that the fact that the law of value is not directly controlling in capitalist production requires the rejection of the theory of value. Karl Marx and the Close of His System Karl Marx and the Close of His System () is a critique of Karl Marx's economic theories by the Austrian economist Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, published in English translation in 1898.