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Do I possess a musical or theatrical heritage? The answer is no. Yes, my wonderful father (of blessed memory) did provide me with weekly piano lessons when I was a motherless little boy, and I did learn to play "Bob-O-Link, Spink, Spank, Spink!" I lacked the basic talent, however, and soon gave up. Neither of my Lithuanian-born parents had any arts background. Yet even though I began with no family show biz-performing arts connections, as the years progressed I seemed to develop a slew of them. The Newmans arrived in Chicago, USA, in 1888. My father Jacob Newman, then fifteen, immediately became an entrepreneur, supplying choice fruits and vegetables to the wealthy in their south-of-the-Loop mansions. Eventually, he became a wholesale tobacconist, prospering briefly. My mother's family came here early in the new century when its patriarch-and my grandfather-Benjamin Waldman became an economically ruined, displaced, and uprooted old-country distiller through Czar Alexander II's decision to nationalize the Russian Empire's lucrative vodka industry. So Grandpa Ben began his American career as a Halsted Street wholesale grocer-a neighbor of Jane Addams's Hull-House, where clarinetist Benny Goodman was spawned. I believe that it was in 1919-the year of my birth-that my mother's cousin Benjamin Kubelsky, destined to become Jack Benny, the suave, big-time vaudevillian and star of radio, movies, and television, left for the navy. I didn't catch up with him until years later, when I publicized one of his personal appearances. By then, my only sister, Marcella Marks, her husband, Sherman Marks, and I had exchanged our bourgeois status for Bohemian glamour. We became, respectively, a New York-Hollywood casting director; a stage, radio, and television writer and director; and a theatrical manager-press agent. My niece, ballerina Dianna Marks, danced with the American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Pennsylvania Ballet, San Franscico Ballet, and Chicago City Ballet, of which she became executive director.
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