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ing-meemies. At the end of the day, Danny called up the eager Mr. Kapp.
“Thought you’d like to know I’ve just heard the playback,” he said. “AU I can say is I am thrilled. Such an orchestra! Such perfection of recording! Such nice people to work with! Your technicians — great! I know you will be pleased. Jack. I am.”
Kapp was delighted. Kaye is notoriously critical of his own work. If he was satisfied, surely Decca had nothing to worry about. Happily, Kapp summoned his top executives. liiey were waiting when the record arrived. He whipped it out of the hands of the messenger and put it directly on the machine in his office.
It was the sour recording. The good one did not arrive until an hour later.
DANNY’S gags are saved strictly for back-stage. He has far too high a regard for his profession to break up a performer in front of the footlights, though he did do it once. He was in a musical, “Let’s Face It,” and Eddie Cantor was appearing at the next door theater in the musical version of “Three Men on a Horse.”
Danny had a break in his show at just about the time Eddie did a number with six chorus boys. It took a little advance plotting, but one night Danny slipped out of his own show, made a split second change into a chorus boy’s costume and pranced out on the stage behind Cantor. As a grace note, he took along a banana which he ate during the routine.
The number got laughs it never had before. Cantor knew that something must be happening behind his back, but every time he turned around the banana disappeared. He examined each boy sharply.
“Funny . . .” he thought. “That new chorus boy looks exactly like Danny Kaye. . .”
The new chorus boy eyed him with the mildly affectionate look of a loving but none too bright spaniel that Danny affects on occasions when he is up to no good. Cantor looked harder. Danny looked more loving and tossed first one foot and then the other at Cantor in perfect time with the rest of the chorus. Then Cantor caught on and all but broke up th? show.
This was a case where, no matter what had happened, the show could not have been harmed. It was comedy to start with. Danny injected his surprise appearance at a time when Cantor had no dialogue so that any extra laughs wotild not interfere with established comedy. In Danny’s code, that would not have been cricket.
Edward Dukoff, Danny’s manager and friend, has been the victim of many of his gags.
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