project, he collaborated with songwriter Howard Dietz.
             As mentioned above, Ryskind would go on to write again with Kaufman. The team wrote a new musical for the Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers, which premiered October, 1928. This musical comedy featured a stolen picture and an explorer (played by Groucho) who set out to find it (Bordman, 444).
             Though the musicals for the Marx Brothers proved successful, Ryskind's greatest accomplishments were yet to come. In the late 1920's, Kaufman had teamed with George and Ira Gershwin. Together, they wrote a musical political satire entitled Strike Up the Band. This musical had originally made its debut in Philadelphia in 1927. However, this first version was short-lived. The musical centered around the Swiss protesting a tariff Americans had placed on Swiss Cheese. This tariff leads to war; an idea presented by a cheese manufac
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