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Danny Kaye's
Crazy Words
Make Money
Br MARK BARRON
NEW YORK (fl Danny Kaye,
winding up an epochal one-man
stand on Broadway, loves those
crazy words be sings.
Tn fact," he readily admits,
"My songs don't have words at
all."
But whether noise or sound ef
fect, it's indisputable the Kaye
product is a sweet symphony that
adds up to more money than has
ever before been banked by a sin
gle person for a single perform
ance in the entertainment field.
Danny and his git-gat-gittle chat
ter opened at Broadway's famous
vaudeville capital, The Palace,
Jan. 28 and he closes Monday
Bight after 14 weeks. With all
seats sold out in advance, Kaye
will have played to 234,250 persons
and the cash register has rung up
1893,630 (the box office top was
$4.80 for evening performances),
an all time record in a vaudeville
house.
Leaves Nest Egg .-,
-Kaye received 60 per cent of the
cross (just about $535,000), paying
out of that the costs of the several
supporting acts on the program,
musicians and other incidentals,
but leaving a mighty comfortable
nest egg.
Taking time out to look back
over the record run, restless Dan
ny occupied a divan, two chairs
and several other pieces of fur
niture in his hotel suite for an
interview.
ny occupied a divan, two chairs
and several other pieces of fur
niture in his hotel suite for an
interview.
"I have cashed in on gloopty-
gloop," Kay said. "Eddie Cantor,
Al Jolson, Jack Benny and others
had to rely strictly on pure english.
I scramble up the alphabet and
hit the jackpot"
Scat Singer
Kaye is the top scat singer of
our time. He mangles such musi
cal phrases as fiddle de roop, then
goes to make another ca sdpeshoit
at the bank. His wife, Sylvia Fine,
is one of Broadway's best song
writers. She has a particular apti
tude for the crazy kind of songs
that fit Kaye's zany singing style.
"I'm a skinny guy," Kaye said
referring to the 135 Palace per
formances. "But I had to eat five
meals a day when I was on that
schedule. I had a full meal every
time I did a performance.
"I always went out the stage
door. Those kids waiting out there
included kids that don't have mon
ey to get in the show. I used, to
outside stage doors myself
because I couldn't get in the front
door."
His restless thoughts took a
bound.
Too Much Money
"I've stopped counting money,"
Kaye said, "it gives me nausea.
I'm going to take a good, long
rest. Something like going out to
Hollywood to make a picture im
mediately. Boy, will that be relax
ing." "The picture is a threed-imen-sional
project called 'Knock on
Wood.' It should be a pushover.
All I have to worry about is how
to get into three dimensions, but
that should be easy because I just
bought a new suit with two pair of
pants." !
Kaye, who has bad in his audi
ence at the Palace such folk as
Ethel Barrymore, Marlene Die
trich, Richard Rodgers and the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor, is
' financially acute.
The week he opened at the jpal
ace there was a gross of $62,000
considerably above what the thea
ter can gross on its normal seating
capacity. Questioned about that,
Kaye quickly had the answer from
a bundle of notes he carries in his
pockets. The first week included
opening night when seats sold for
17.20.
With Kaye leaving, the historic
Palace is returning to its normal
summer theater 'presentations,
eight acts of vaudeville. It was
fun and profit while Kaye lasted.
Willamina to
Observe City
Cleanup Week
lUttoua News Service
WILLAMINA -The Willamina
City Council Tuesday night de
signated next week as "City
Cleanup Week." The clean-up
week was also observed last year
and resulted in a general im
provement of property . appear
ance, especially at the cemetery.
In other business, the council
adopted an ordinance setting up
jt city water department as a sep
arate unit with provision made
tor a clerk. Also passed was an
ordinance concerning the sale and
control of liquor.
' Matters discussed without ae-
-Jton included sidewalks for resi
dential areas and drainage prob-
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