When little Adolph ( Harpo ) Marx was literally tossed out the window of Miss Flatto's second grade it set in motion a chain of events, culminating in his Bar Mitzvah, which he describes with an engaging mixture of sweetness and hilarity in this memoir of a child's life in an immigrant family at the turn of the century. Long before vaudeville, Broadway, and the silver screen, Harpo Marx triumphed on the greatest stage of all-New York City. Optimistic and wry, with an unforgettable cast of characters, and set against the backdrop of a long-vanished Manhattan, this is the delightful memoir of a second-grade dropout.