Arthur Marx Arthur Marx Arthur Julius Marx (July 21, 1921April 14, 2011) was an American author, a nationally ranked amateur tennis player, and son of entertainer Groucho Marx, and his first wife, Ruth Johnson. He was named after Groucho's brother Arthur "Harpo" Marx. Marx spent his early years accompanying his father around vaudeville circuits in the United States and abroad. When he was 10, the family moved to Southern California, where the Marx Brothers continued their film careers. Marx was a nationally ranked tennis player before he was 18. While he was attending the University of Southern California, he won the National
Adolph Douai there was a short-lived plan for Douai to serve as English-language translator of "Das Kapital," the magnum opus of Karl Marx first published in 1867. In January 1878, the German-language socialist daily newspaper the "New Yorker Volkszeitung" (New York People's News) was established, and Douai began to write extensively for the publication. It was there that Douai gained his greatest public fame as a journalist and publicist. Adolph Douai died on January 21, 1888, in New York after having suffered chronic "throat trouble." A public memorial was held January 23 at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. An unpublished typescript of an