Word: raconteur
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Died. Harry Hershfield, 89, perennial master of ceremonies, raconteur, columnist and cartoonist; in Manhattan. Hershfield first exercised his wit as the cartoonist-creator of the Desperate Desmond and Abie the Agent comic strips. In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This? A leading light on the "rubber chicken circuit" for more than 50 years, Hershfield was famous for such sententiae as: "A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying...
...opera buffs, the evening's most notable portrayal was Scruples (the impresario) played by Francis Robinson, 64, the perennial opera raconteur, radio personality and assistant manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Though Scruples is a nonsinging role, he does have most of the punch lines ("Opera...
THURGOOD MARSHALL, 66, a Democrat appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967, won a score of cases while representing the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund before the Supreme Court prior to 1962, but now finds himself in the Burger Court's liberal minority. The court's best raconteur, who sometimes likes to jive groups of whites by lapsing ostentatiously into a broad black dialect. Has collected an informal panel of law professors and judges to help choose his clerks, who as a result are now usually the best in the building. Still impatient with legal complexities, preferring to go to the right...
Bound for Glory. Michael Cooney is one of the best contemporary singers of American music. Few know more about the songs they sing and few turn their knowledge into more memorable performances. He is a fine guitarist and banjo player, a splendid raconteur, and a light, engaging singer. The proceeds from this tribute to Woody Guthrie, which Cooney will narrate, will go to research on Huntington's Disease, which took Guthrie's life. The show should be a rare treat. Saturday, March 16 at the Brookline High School Auditorium...
...story of a writer who wants to be serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman delighted his many friends, among them Greta Garbo, for whom he did the screenplays of Queen Christina and Anna Karenina. In later years Behrman wrote biographies of Lord Duveen and Max Beerbohm and, at 75, his first novel, The Burning Glass, about a young playwright in the America and Europe...