Column: Groucho Marx, playing one night only in the Loop

Groucho Marx has been dead since 1977, but to hear his grandson talk about him, one can imagine a smile on his face, those remarkable eyebrows raising

“He and I became very close in his later years,” Andy Marx was telling me Sunday night. “We spent a lot of time together, working on various projects, every day at his house for two or three years, having lunch. I used to run into a lot of people who knew my grandfather. But that’s rare now.”

On the telephone with us was Frank Ferrante , who is in a career-long business of being Groucho, whose full name was Julius Henry Marx. For 40 years and counting, he has been Groucho in many foreign countries, in 47 of our 50 states, in theaters large and small.

He will be Groucho again on June 11, when he performs his critically acclaimed one-man,