The Hotel de Cocoanut was the setting of the Marx Brothers movie, The Cocoanuts, which explains the desk clerk and the bellboy. I haven’t decided whether Zeppo is going to show up or not.
And yes, Ginger is taking a bath. Â That pretty much guarantees someone is going to try to kill her. Â And look who just arrived…
“I surprised a killer in my bathrobe. How he got in my bathrobe, I’ll never know …”
Perhaps Ginger could fake her own death to put the villains off the track, bringing Dick Tracy’s none-too-bright partner Pat Patton into the case. (Pat was a durable Irishman– a good thing, because he often led with his chin. He also had a weakness for sympathetic young women, leaving him disarmed and tied up a few times….)
That’s a good suggestion. You’ll see how things play out.
“Disarmed and tied up” is roughly what happened to one of Hannibal’s assistants in a previous adventure whom Hannibal sent to rescue Ginger from a criminal mastermind’s lair.
I wondered why the slight of Ginger’s tail made the elevator operator/bell boy “horny”. It is Harpo.
I considered having the bell boy thinking of a large pair of scissors, which would perhaps be more in character for Harpo. Or having him chase her, which would be even more so. But I just wanted a quick sight gag and so left it as it is.
I am sorely tempted to bring Groucho in, just for completion’s sake, but that would be thoroughly self-indulgent and I already have enough trouble keeping the plot moving. We’ll see.