European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 1 new generation discovered Groucho los Angeles api Groucho Marx played the Antic Clown to Tow first As Star of a series of inspired stage plays and film comedies with his Gamma and then As quizmaster in the successful Radii and television von bet your the major Marx movies were nude in the and you bet your life faded on to on june bin As reruns of the shows have become Staples of lat night television and the movies the stuff of film a second generation of Ameri cans Learned to love Man and his props the the wild smile and the raised madness and cynicism he embodied it unique mend of madness and cynicism he was in full Flower when deflating especially when exhibited by Margaret the Grande Dame of his Marx carried the same attitude into his role As he enjoyed poking holes in contestants punctuating his comments with a Leer and a waggle of the my Allie Cdr has always been the hell with he once told an my Brothers and i always played to we never played in the audience it is More or less the tame Way in conversation with Groucho was often he could seize most innocent phrase and find derogatory humor in often with a double nor would to coddle fun a stranger once approached Marx in a Hollywood restaurant and Shook his you dont know what this Means to the Man rushed pans never of fended to it probably Means skin Dis guru tin Muhaw resuming to his such fans never an insult from a Nucho Marx was like the medal of it was deferent with mucks show Busi Ness Jack Benny and others could nol warm up to Groucho be cause of his constant flow of caustic wit a a Groucho had Many acquaintances and including Latte Day comics like Hill Cosby and Carl but few Dost a Sei Iroy courtroom Battle Uyer his conservatorship put Groucho Back in the news in recent us a Lime when he was in and out of the for treatment of his various Erin a pretty former actress who attached herself to Groucho in 1970 and was his constant com battled Groucho Over the care of the aged hired As Secretary 49 years Lus was hired As his Secretary and single Anderly brought him out of retirement for a triumphant 1972 appearance at Carnegie Arthur pictured her As Groucho grim who latched on to Marx for his he was withering on the Vine until she entered his said a other wit Nesses said she badgered him with insults and but friends said she was keep ing him alive by her stimulating Groucho in love with brother Zuppo said during the sensational court friends say Groucho was never aware that his name was in the headlines during the lengthy which ended last july when the comedians 27yearold was named permanent conserva but at the same he was nut aware two French Sext plets die France i api a 29year old French woman gave birth to Selu doctors two died but four others were still alive in a Toulouse Hospi doctors said it was the first delivery for the identified Only As a Zinc of thu nearby City of they said the babies weighed Between 13 and ounces thai he was adding even More millions of fans As a new Era of affection for Groucho and the Marx Brothers spawned by television reruns of their theater revivals and reruns of you Bel your the Mam Brothers were considered to rank among such masters As Laurel and will Charlie Chaplin and Fields the common medical old age heart infections had kept him confined to his Home and fuzzed us famous found him alternately Alert and but As Laic As his 8sth birthday he was wisecracking and commenting an the downfall of Rich Ard one of his favorite characters was the lecherous professor the Cracker with raised false mus tache and a stooped walk like a Tiger stalk ing a water Buffalo in later Groucho appeared with out makeup on but he discard the he was still Groucho was an insult at roman offs a waiter sobbed when Gaucho gave him a kind its the first said the that Marx didst insult another the Brown Derby asked him to autograph a caricature to be Hung on the restaurants he autographed la this Way to Al levys tavern a competitor the Best restaurant on Vine ghz us caricature was never asked him Groucho agreed Only if no censorship was imposed toe autograph to the Hollywood Brown Derby the Best restaurant on Vine Only because Al levys has gone out of the Marx Brothers humor flowered in the roaring 20s and became a fad of the along with the Charleston and Raccoon their fortunes soared in the 1930s and 40s but declined in the postwar fils real name was bom in new York son of jewish his was an East Side tailor who lived to his was the daughter of a wandering magician and sister of Al Shean of the famed Gallagher and Shean vaudeville she raised her five sons in desperate poverty but managed to save enough to give the boys music she was immortalized on Broadway in the musical minnies once 1 Groucho later re when pop got a Job making a suit fur a Spound when it was it was wicked in a bos and i delivered when the customer opened the there were no Chaco had got the Box first and hockey the As a Groucho wanted to be a member of the team Crouch right is shown with his Harpa Chico i Center i and in this 1m3 photo of the Marx a photo he loved Reading and enjoyed being by himself but so poor was the family that Only Zeppo reached High Minnie saw to ii thai Chico the took a few piano Harp Arthur Learned to play the by him at age Groucho performed briefly with a Gui Edwards kid he later joined a vaudeville the which impersonated girl in Mamma organized the three which included a Tenor and a when Harp joined hey became the four nightingales the four vultures would have been More like Crouch said after countless whist Tan town Heaters and performances in the dingies of the act evolved i Lii the four Marx Summo i Milton t and the Brothers never considered them selves a comedy act until one Day in nit when a runaway mule started a minor riot outside the theater and lured most of the audience the infuriated Brothers Ocean kidding their act and lured the audience bark inside with their during the 20s they were a smash in Vaudrevil Clarid musical comedy their i say she was a Tek hit in Chicago and new others followed the coconuts and a Nimitz crackers were Good for two year Hurt Ink crash Groucho was hit badly in the 1929 Market but survived to joke about years later a visited the new Turk Slock Exchange with his broker and began singing when Irish Kyes Are trading stopped the members when a Serjeant terms tried a Stop his grouch yelled you you wiped me out of in far that kind of in entitled to sing if i want Groucho admitted Money always meant a lot to he once old an interviewer i was kicked into acting by my Mother and if 1 haunt id be on Ive always been terrified of dying Brake or of being a the Brothers first movie was a film ver Sion of the Concu nuts in animal crackers was followed by Monkey horse Duck a right it the opera Ami a Day at the Knavish characters the Brothers retired in is i after the Illg but returned in to make a night in Casablanca and love Happy in in the Early heir Groucho played such Knavish and fraudulent characters As Cheever Loop detective Sam Grunion and Wolf j Crouch and his first Ruth Garri were divorced in 1943 after a Byear their two Arthur and Are Groucho and his second Kay were divorced in they bad a Groucho was divorced from his third to 1968 and was ordered to pay of 1 million Zeppo Marx is still alive Harp and Chico All Are on liners were his specially los angles i a i Groucho Man was As famous for his online wisecracks As for his Bushy eyebrows and Duck Here Are u few Wunn t passionately i Dar Ling Crouch if 1 were any id be in Man you love your dont you Groucho Crouch whats the matter cant he stand up by himself v Man he Doest believe in wearing Groucho an he Man Stop tit a Western Union i want to wire my he once resigned from a country club because i join any organization that would accept me As a one night the daughter it actor Alan Ladd appeared on Marx radio and to quiz you bet your she re marked that her father Wai in the is your dad son of Lassie on another Marx told an egyptian contestant i used to know a re hot Mummy from we were terribly wrapped up in each once a Jackpot hopeful said he designed everything from a safety pin to a Locombo Wail a minute Why would a locomotive need safety pins Groucho in tempt i guess when they change
