Radio mirror (Jan-June 1948)

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I will pay postmio fl plut poitlfe: $1 refund U not delighted. | SORRY. NO C. 0. D.'» OUTSIDE O. S. A. Durante's Contagious (Continued from page 43) Whenever his call comes, I pop into my car and drive out to his house in Beverly Hills, find him, usually sitting beside his notorious swimming pool — the one he contracted to pay $3,000 for and which, as he told the court later, was constructed over a three year period and cost $10,000 — wearing a tattered pair of swimming trunks which he must have inherited from Methuselah, his vast nose plastered with white sunburn cream, and shouting at the neighbors' dog, normally the only swimmer, to get out of the water. The first few times I went there to work, I kept my notebook and pencil discreetly out of sight, thinking it best to wait until some of the people had gone. But the people don't go: that's the first thing you learn about Jimmy Durante. THIRTY-ODD years ago Jimmy broke into the spotlight with a vaudeville act he shared with two other comedians, Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson, and a drummer. Jack Roth. The act is still going on. Wherever \ you find Jimmy you find Clayton, Jackson and Roth, and a fourth, constant Louis Cohen, who has been managing Jimmy's personal affairs for most of \ the thirty years. Lou Clayton is now his business manager, Roth is in charge of a filing system housing a vast * horde of malaprop jokes which have made Americans laugh since the first World War. Jimmy chats with Lou Clayton about his next picture assignment, with Roth ; about the routines for next week's radio show, and with Cohen about the size of the grocery bill — "all that, just for corn fiakes?" — while he dictates. It takes a selective ear to know just which of his comments are for the fellow who's to get the letter. There are other hazards. The phone rings constantly, and while Maggie, who has been Jimmy's maid for fifteen years, is a genius about handling the calls, a good many must be answered by the boss. Jimmy wants to talk to all of his friends, and he has thousands of friends. Thousands of friends and hundreds — or so it seems — of nephews. "There is always a nephew staying at the house, usually practicing on the piano. I can count on seeing Phil Cohan, producer of Jimmy's show, and my other boss, most of the times I turn up at the house, and unless Jimmy has dispatched themi to the beach because they've been working too hard — Durante is different — I am face to face again with my pals of the all-night revising sessions, the writers. At anybody else's house this many people would comprise a party and somebody would open up the bar. But at Jimmy's, it's strictly routine. If there are any refreshments they are apt to be cornflakes and milk — which Durante thinks will cure anything. After awhile you take the mob scenes strictly for granted. You keep the notebook and pencil in a "get set" position, and put down the stuff whenever, wherever, Jimmy gets around to it. The "wherever" is as impredictable as the whenever. Jimmy flits a lot — complete with entourage. He may be in the middle of dictating a paragraph,