Show 1 Danny 1 Kayes Kaye's Imper Impersonations os Ar Are T Terrific But His Wife Says He Hes He's s Funnier Off Stage By Erskine Johnson l HOLLYWOOD NEA This I Danny Kayo Kaye you'll have to admit is terrific People simply get hysterical hysterical hys' hys hys hys- when he impersonates Carmen Carmen Carmen Car Car- men Miranda or barks like a dog or does docs double talk or sets the hep- hep cats with his jive It looks like Danny is due duc to score I Ithe the screens screen's biggest personal triumph triumph tri tri- of the year Danny also does docs Russian dialect sings sentimental Irish songs dances a la Ia Paul Draper does a 8 baby's voice impersonates a pompous pompous pom porn concert singer and also a asinger asinger asinger singer with a cold does docs caricatures of Moscow Art I actors and fussy French dressI dress- dress I r makers Why Wh said S Sylvia y I v I 1 a Fine theres nothing Danny cant can't do Hes He's a wonderful mimic and a avery avery avery very fine actor I once complained because he didn't have a German dialect So he spent a couple of or nights with some German refugees refugees refugees refu refu- gees and now he ho has a whole asI assortment assortment as as- I of German dialects Sylvia is Dannys Danny's wife She also writes his material and his music and arid is his best hest pres agent lIes lIe's Funnier Offstage We Ve had a lunch date with Danny and Sylvia but Danny was a littie little little lit lit- tle tie late But said Sylvia I UI Ican Ican can tell teU you more about Danny than h he can If we thought Danny was funny on the screen Sylvia said we should see him in someone's livIng living liv- liv ing room just clowning around Hes uHe's funnier in a living room than anywhere else she said In fact tact 1 I get a lot of credit for writing his Is material But the stuff Danny makes maltes up is a lot funnier Sylvia said Danny went to visit visita a doctor friend back in Brooklyn It t seems Danny has always had a secret yen to become a doctor Veil VelI they got to talking about And Danny started putting putting put- put ting Ing it into verse and singing and that hat was the beginning of the number umber Sylvia just polished it t that allI all allI I play something on the piano pino pi- pi ano no Sylvia said Bard and he picks it up p from there By this time Danny joined us A Serious Comedian Danny takes his comedy Very serious seriously y yas as all good comics do Danny began his career enter enter- taming camps at sit for or the whole season He tried to get stage tage jobs on Broadway but producers producers pro- pro couldn't see him So he joined a vaudeville troupe and toured the That's That where he c learned his pantomime tech tech- Ique No one in the Oriental audiences u n d e English Danny had to put his gags across with gestures Then he returned to the States and nd met Sylvia It was love and they hey were married Sylvia Incorporated incorporated orated his jokes into numbers The rest is history Danny wowed the lie customers at a New York night night ight club La Martinique In the Broadway Lady in inthe inthe the he Dark and for 16 months in inLets inLets inLets inLet's Lets Let's Face It T v j. j 4 ii 4 1 A 4 c f t t l t. t i 4 l i 4 4 47 4 ir k 4 pf m 4 y Danny an y K Kaye e His Hs wife Sy Sylvia I. I via F Fine In e writes his scrip scripts is his hh music and is IS h. h his IS b best es t press age agent t tan |