Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burrows is a wit's wit, a clown's clown. The late Robert Benchley called him "the greatest satirist" in the U.S. The men who make the public laugh-Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Jack Benny-split their sides laughing when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy...
...Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and--this'll kill ya-Zeppo) are some of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on twelve wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago they started pounding off the drivel on the celluloid reels, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, mentioned above, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles...
...given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows...
Married. Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 54, gabbiest of the lady-ogling Marx Brothers; and Catherine Mavis Gorcey, 24, singing starlet and ex-wife of deadpan Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey; both for the second time; in Hollywood...