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With the fading days of vaudeville in the 1920s, advent of radio in the 1930s and first flicker of television in the 1940s, emerged a generation of Jewish comedians who dominated American humor media for more than half a century.

Every American war has its distinctive anthems, and on due consideration, the one that seems most appropriate for our almost simultaneous escalation and withdrawal in Afghanistan is Groucho Marx's entrance song in Animal Crackers: " Hello, I Must Be Going ." In a sense, "Hello, I Must Be Going" is the appropriate song for an empire in decline.

How does an Episcopalian from Kansas City wind up the star of a Yiddish revue in the Big Apple? Like the old joke about Carnegie Hall, the answer is "Practice, practice." Thus, 41-year-old KC native Shane Bertram Baker stars in the New Yiddish Repertory Theatre's presentation of "The Big Bupkis: A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville," ...

Durng a party scene in the movie "Monkey Business," Groucho Marx spots a waiter carrying a drink, but the waiter tells him the drink is for the guest of honor.

Identify them in order from left to right. 2. What is the most common surname in the United States? 3. In which of the Marx Brothers movies is Groucho Marx known as J. Cheever Loophole? 4. Who gave New England that name? 5. A Cleveland Indiansa pitcher led the American League in strikeouts in five seasons out of six from 1965-70. Identify the ...

Eleanor Ringel Cater has been a film critic in Atlanta for 29 years. Her column appears every Friday.

People need comedy during tough times. But during the great stock market crash of 1929, there was a problem.

Madness and mayhem reign onstage in The Goodman Theatre's current revival of Animal Crackers , based on the 1928 Broadway musical by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind that starred the Marx Brothers.

Joey Slotnick channels Groucho Marx in 'Animal Crackers.' A Goodman Theater presentation of a musical in two acts with book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

It's no surprise that trying to dig up info on Dain, the Brooklyn-born street artist, is a complicated task.

CHEESE AND 'CRACKERS' Yeast Nation casts a campy glow over the beginning of the world; Animal Crackers re-envisions the Marx Brothers classic.

Verdi at first named his opera La Zingara after the vengeful gypsy Azucena, played in Geneva by mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura.

Whenever I think of today's Republicans, I think of Marx. Groucho Marx, that is.

'Your proposition may be good But let's have one thing understood, Whatever it is, I'm against it.

29-31 at the Aragon Entertainment Center in Chicago. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday through Ticketmaster, 745-3000. I'd love to see rock's venerable poet tackle "Monster Mash" for his Halloween concert.

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A Beverly Hills house owned for two decades by Groucho Marx is on the market for $12.9 million.

For a man in debt and hounded by an angry creditor, Gordon Miller is unusually upbeat, not to mention funny, at least as played by Groucho Marx.

The Goodman Theatre set the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people wearing Groucho Marx classes at the same place and time.

A group of movie-goers sporting black-rimmed glasses, bushy eyebrows and mustaches have snagged a Guinness World Record for Chicago.