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riter Larry Gelbart

is a man of his
word.
Playfully irreverent,
playwright Gelbart is a
wordsmith working his
magic like a wizard pulling
puns out of a hat. Not a hare-
brained phrase in the bunch.
Gelbart, who created TV's
monster "M.A.S.H." is the ob-
ject of some mash notes
these days — from writers
and critics who have hailed
his work on Broadway's City
of Angels, praising him to
the high heavens for his
satirically scripted send-up
of mystery novels. Angels is
this year's leading contender
for the "best musical" Tony
Award.
Wickedly witty, Angels fol-
lows closely on the heels of
the recently closed
Mastergate, Gelbart's crea-
tion aimed at the Iran- con-
tra hearings.
Hollywood and Broadway
have learned to make room
for Gelbart since he first
started out as a writer for
Danny Thomas' "Maxwell

Michael Elkin is the enter-
tainment editor of the Jewish
Exponent in Philadelphia.

House Coffee Time" radio
show more than 45 years
ago.
"My father was a barber,
and one of his customers was
Danny Thomas," Gelbart
says. "So he asked Thomas if
I could write for his show."
A sample script — and
suddenly 16-year-old
Gelbart was playing ball
with his idols.
He has not been idle since.
In a career that has spanned
such success, Gelbart has
built bridges that carry him
back and forth to different
media.
So fluent and flip with
English is Gelbart that it is
surprising to learn that his
talent for tongue-in-cheek
chic started out with a diff-
erent mother tongue.
"The first words I knew
were Yiddish," Gelbart
recalls of his Chicago
nuclear family, in which his
grandparents shared living
quarters and heritage with
their talented grandson.
That upbringing had an
impact on the upstart. "All
my shows have a Yiddish
soul to them," he says. "I
just use English as a cam-
ouflage."
There is no masking his
mission or motto — making
merry with the foibles of
man. All Gelbart's work