Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein habitually greeted callers at his office during his business career. In New Faces he functions as a mysterious friend of the scalawag producer, executes nothing resembling...
Married. Ed Wynn, 51, comedian; to a Frieda Mierse, 25, onetime showgirl; in New York. Same day in Philadelphia, Morris Apt, 65, uncle of Funnyman Wynn, committed suicide by poison...
Divorced. Funnyman Ed Wynn (Israel Edwin Leopold), 50; by Hilda Keenan Wynn, daughter of the late Actor Frank Keenan; in Reno, Nev. She won $300 a week alimony. Funnyman Wynn charged that his wife was an incurable dipsomaniac, intoxicated "95%" of the time when not under direct medical care, for which he had spent...
Married. Natalie Cantor, 20, second of Funnyman Eddie Cantor's five daughters; and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 22, Hollywood antique dealer; in Los Angeles...
Committee members could not ascertain definitely last night whether or not former Lampy funnyman Robert Benchley '12 would be able to attend...