TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

the receiving — end of small kindnesses. Jackie does many kind things which no one hears about. He saw a little item, buried in a New York newspaper, but for some reason or other it touched him. A man had died, in Brooklyn, and there was no money to bury him. The family had been evicted from their apartment. Perhaps it was somewhere near Jackie's old home neighborhood. Perhaps there was a nostalgic something that caught his attention. At any rate, he got in touch with the family, paid for the funeral, and saw that they were installed in an apartment, before he was satisfied that enough had been done. This is the serious Gleason. Yet this same Gleason giggled like a schoolboy when, after the new contract for "The Honeymooners" was signed, I talked to him on the telephone. He was out when I put in a call for him, so he called me back. As soon as I picked up the phone and said hello, this voice said, "This is the Aga Khan." And then, with much hauteur, "Is there anything I can do for you?" Which broke me up completely, and set me giggling and he broke up, too. It was his way of acknowledging the wonderful success that had come to him, with a little play-acting and laughs — and a lot of humility. Interviewers have asked me at times if there isn't something I can say about Jackie that is just a little bit on the mean side, to make the story more interesting. I can't. The only mean things I know about him are the ones that have been done to him, not by him. He had plenty of tough breaks as a boy. His father walked away from the family, his brother died as a young child, his hard-working mother died, too, before he could do a hundredth part of the things he wanted to do for her. I think all this has made Jackie more understanding, more kind, more thoughtful, more sensitive. And more eager to get all the laughs he can out of life, and to give them to others. Recently, people have begun to ask me if I think filming "The Honeymooners" will be as much fun as doing it live. All I can say is that, wherever Jackie Gleason is, there will always be excitement. I once told a newspaperman that working with Jackie was a lot like sitting on the edge of a volcano, with my feet dangling over a crater that could erupt any moment. But there the analogy ends, because — unlike what happens when a volcano erupts — with Jackie, everything turns out to be fun. Magnificent, glorious fun. That's certainly the secret why everybody who works with him loves him! MORE MEADOWS! This month, you've heard from Audrey, of "The Honeymooners" . . . next month, read about sister Jayne and her handsome husband, Sfeve Allen, and their HONEYMOON IN THE SUN . . . complete with color pictures! 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