damages in a settlement. "Stars and Stripes Forever" (Sousa) – on radio, turned on (loudly) by Harpo, who mistakes it for a safe "American Patrol" (Frank W. Meacham) – three of the Brothers playing soldiers' helmets like a xylophone as they march by, while Harpo clips off the decorative tassels (part of a running gag in the film) "All God's Chillun Got Guns" (parody of "All God's Chillun Got Wings"); "Oh Freedonia" (parody of "Oh! Susanna"); "Turkey in the Straw" (instrumental) – embedded in "Freedonia's Going to War" Light Cavalry Overture (Franz von Suppé) – Harpo galloping on horseback a la Paul Revere "Ain't She Sweet" (Milton Ager/Jack Yellen) – Harpo watching girl in window "Goodnight, Sweetheart" (Ray Noble) – Harpo and same girl (Edgar Kennedy's character's wife) Generic cavalry charge – Harpo with horn, in bathtub with Edgar Kennedy "One Hour With You" (Oscar Straus/Richard A. Whiting) – Harpo with another girl and his horse — segué into a bit of "The Old Gray Mare" "El manisero" (Moisés Simons) – half-sung, half-muttered by Groucho to himself at various points Reception Duck Soup was not a box office failure. Although it did not do as well as Horse Feathers, it was the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1933, according to Glenn Mitchell in The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia and Simon Louvish in Monkey Business, his biography of the Marx Brothers. However the film was a box office disappointment for Paramount. One possible reason for the film's lukewarm reception is that it was released during the Great Depression. Audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disregard, buffoonery, and cynicism at a time of economic and political crisis. Film scholar Leonard Maltin had this to say in his book The Great Movie Comedians: As wonderful as Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup seem today, some critics and moviegoers found them unpleasant and longed for the more orderly world of The Cocoanuts with its musical banalities. [...] Many right-thinkers laughed themselves silly in 1933—but a large number didn't. [...] The unrelieved assault of Marxian comedy was simply too much for some people. Years later, Groucho's son Arthur Marx described Irving Thalberg's assessment of the film's purported failure during a National Public Radio interview: [Thalberg] said the trouble with Duck Soup is you've got funny gags in it, but there's no story and there's nothing to root for. You can't root for the Marx Brothers