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when the idea hits him that he must rush at once to have a Turkish bath, a haircut (or a hair-growing treatment) a grease job on the car, or a fitting at the tailors. This doesn't mean that Jimmy walks out on us all — we all go along, Clayton, Jackson, Roth, Cohen, Cohan, Whizen and assorted nephews, and get Turkish baths, haircuts, or whatever is going along with the boss (I so far have been able to skip the hair-growing treatments) — and the work goes on, but in a new setting. It may seem incredible, under such conditions, but a lot of work gets out. Jimmy insists upon answering personally every letter he gets, including requests for broadcast tickets, and every letter from a person he remembers even faintly includes a paragraph or two of personal comment — no form letters for the pals^and a fond "Love and kisses". And Jimmy has a gargantuan memory. He may ^et a little mixed up about whose face — or signature on a letter — is which, but he remembers that he met the fellow. And usually he remembers that he was a fine fellow, a real pal. Often people write to apologize to Jimmy for being unable to return money borrowed years ago. "Forget it," Jimmy replies, "I did, long ago." Jimmy is such an individual character, his charm and flavor so peculiarly his own, that I take special pride in trying to get on paper exactly what he says. This takes a reasonable flexibility in following the rule books of grammar, spelling and punctuation. This is no job for a girl who wants to improve her boss's English. Jimmy's talk may not be English, but whatever it is, it's too good to be improved. WE once threw the words "femme fatale" out of a script — mistakenly, I think — because Jimmy insisted upon pronouncing it "ferm fatal." He was very fond of the phrase, and he did too know what it meant. For six weeks later, he told me admiringly when I turned up at a party all dressed up that I certainly looked like a "firm fatality." Sometimes when we come up against a Durante-ized word which will not be budged, we have to do something drastic as, for instance, when we changed a vocalist's name to Suzanne Filers when Jimmy persisted in pronouncing Dorothy as Dorty. Usually, the Durante version stays in the script. Catastrophe becomes catastroscope after the first rehearsal, subservient becomes sub-servant, magnitude something mag-nana-mit-tood. It's contagious. After two weeks with Durante, everyone begins talking like that — complete with gestures, tone of voice and inflections — which bewilders Jimmy who doesn't seem to know that that is the way the original comes out. All now automatically greet every passer-by, including our doctors, with Jimmy's standard "Hello, how do you feel?" To all of us, as to Jimmy, every pretty girl is "Sweets." We mispronounce words almost unconsciously. We have found after long experience that it's best to let Jimmy do his own word-mangling. 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