Groucho's Native American

[unclewalt56]

this very attractive young lady is from Napoli, Italy and was talking about how she was a survivor of the Andria Doria which sank in 1956 and took 46 lives.

[LazlosPlane]

Why a duck?

[TheIMC8]

They make good soups.

[RayNDeere]

There was another time where Harpo filled in for the duck

[cheeco8]

whos the pretty lady

[pa20002000]

What was the "Anthony Eden" reference made by Groucho? Was this aired about the time of the Suez crisis? (56/57?)

[sneadhearn]

Yes. Elsewhere, this clip is ID'd as aired in 1959, but the advertisement which comes immediately before this segment is for a 1957 model De Soto, so it must be late '56 or early '57.

It's clearly a Suez reference (hence Groucho's reference to Egyptians in the audience), but I still can't figure out what feature of the "cigar store Indian" prompted Groucho's Eden comparison? The "war paint"? The dropping from above as if a paratrooper (British troops parachuted into Suez in Nov. '56)?