Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1953)

How I Trained My Husband —MRS. JERRY LEWIS (Continued from page 53) what in the world happened?” he asked me. “They were scattered all over the place.” I tried to sound surprised. “Why — I thought you wanted them sent out. . . .” There was a long groan. “Oh, no, Patsy, you couldn’t have. . . .” But I did. And since then, Jerry has tried to be neat while traveling. At our house in Los Angeles, tidiness is no problem with him. It’s the first permanent home he’s ever had. As a kid he was constantly on the road with his parents, who are in show business too, and later on with his and Dean’s act. He is so proud of the home that he is meticulous about everything. Jerry is the first to notice a crooked picture or a book askew. But trying to keep Jerry from letting the funny-man within run away with him at the dinner table has always been a difficult, uphill struggle. Slapping a pat of butter on his wrist, then turning to the person next to him with: “What’s the time, Mac?” is his Number One Gag. Usually he finishes a meal by neatly rolling up his napkin, holding it over his face, and then letting one side drop down like a curtain. “Finis,” he’ll scream. This used to embarrass me no end. I remember our first invitation to dinner at the home of Loretta Yo\ing and her husband, Tom Lewis. It was a party for thirty people. Jerry was seated next to Loretta and I was at the other end of Ithe table, next to Tom. Despite my fervent hopes and prayers, Jerry went through his usual routine, keeping everyone in an uproar. Afterwards, I apologized to Loretta. {‘Don’t ever,” she said. “Jerry knows just how far to go.” While Jerry may get away with it when ve eat out, at home he gets angry when )ur boys, Gary, seven, and Ronnie, three, ry to put on their own act. When my lubtle jibes at his own “funny” habits lidn’t help, I had to resort to more drasic measures. The butter-onwrist routine ipset me most so instead of butter I Itpted serving him a dollar pocket watch ivith h^ hotcakes. This, he found an amusng switch on his own gag — and it helped. And getting the kids into the picture has lone a lot of good, too. For instance, I eel Jerry needs spinach. Yet I know lie’ll scream whenever I serve it. But he’ll cream even louder if the kids — who on’t like spinach either — leave anything n their plates. What to do? Serve the ame generous helping to all three of bem at the same time. When Jerry starts ■ 3 make faces, I point to the kids’ plates -and he’ll smile sheepishly and eat! As yet I haven’t fully succeeded in I laking him pay attention to me at break i 1st time. Between the Los Angeles Times, ' Hollywood Reporter and the Daily I ariety, I can talk my head off and he’ll I ever even hear me. 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