David Burns was one of the great messhuganehs of the 20th Century. He appeared on Broadway in the original productions of The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Music Man, A Hole in the Head, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hello Dolly and, his last great triumph, Arthur Miller's The Price. I caught up with him - but never pinned him down - when he was playing Horace Vandergelder to Carol Channing's Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly in 1966.