英语词汇casablanca的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Casablanca. When Warner Bros. warned the Marx Brothers not to use the name “Casablanca” in their film A Night in Casa- blanca because (the studio claimed) this would infringe upon the title of Warner’s movie Casablanca, Groucho Marx wrote the company the following letter now in the Groucho collec- tion of the Library of Congress. Jack Warner, who regarded ac- tors as “bums” and writers as “schmucks with Underwoods,” was not amused. “Apparently there is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it as your own,” Groucho wrote. “For example, up to the time that we contemplated making a picture, I had no idea that the city of Casablanca belonged to Warner Bros. However, it was only a few days after our an- nouncement appeared that we received a long ominous docu- ment warning us not to use the name ‘Casablanca.’ It seems in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, the great-great-grandfather of Harry and Jack, while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock, which he later turned in for a hundred shares of the common, he named it Casablanca. I just can’t understand your attitude. Even if they plan on releasing the picture, I am sure that the average movie fan could learn to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo. I don’t know whether I could, but I certainly would like to try. You claim you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without your permission. What about Warner Brothers—do you own that too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner, but what about Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were. Even before us, there had been other brothers—the Smith Brothers, the Brothers Karamazov, Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit and ‘Brother, can you spare a dime?’ This was originally ‘Brothers, can you spare a dime,’ but this was spreading a dime pretty thin. The younger Warner Brother calls himself Jack. Does he claim that, too? It’s not an original name—it was used long before he was born. Offhand, I can think of two Jacks—there was Jack of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day . . .” And so the letter went on à la Groucho. Need- less to say, A Night in Casablanca remained A Night in Casablanca.

词汇	casablanca
词源	Casablanca. When Warner Bros. warned the Marx Brothers not to use the name “Casablanca” in their film A Night in Casa- blanca because (the studio claimed) this would infringe upon the title of Warner’s movie Casablanca, Groucho Marx wrote the company the following letter now in the Groucho collec- tion of the Library of Congress. Jack Warner, who regarded ac- tors as “bums” and writers as “schmucks with Underwoods,” was not amused. “Apparently there is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it as your own,” Groucho wrote. “For example, up to the time that we contemplated making a picture, I had no idea that the city of Casablanca belonged to Warner Bros. However, it was only a few days after our an- nouncement appeared that we received a long ominous docu- ment warning us not to use the name ‘Casablanca.’ It seems in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, the great-great-grandfather of Harry and Jack, while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock, which he later turned in for a hundred shares of the common, he named it Casablanca. I just can’t understand your attitude. Even if they plan on releasing the picture, I am sure that the average movie fan could learn to distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo. I don’t know whether I could, but I certainly would like to try. You claim you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without your permission. What about Warner Brothers—do you own that too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner, but what about Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were. Even before us, there had been other brothers—the Smith Brothers, the Brothers Karamazov, Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit and ‘Brother, can you spare a dime?’ This was originally ‘Brothers, can you spare a dime,’ but this was spreading a dime pretty thin. The younger Warner Brother calls himself Jack. Does he claim that, too? It’s not an original name—it was used long before he was born. Offhand, I can think of two Jacks—there was Jack of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day . . .” And so the letter went on à la Groucho. Need- less to say, A Night in Casablanca remained A Night in Casablanca.
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