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strictly a standpoint of personal choice.
For instance, this is about an averige day in our lives.
We get up at a reasonably early hour, nd, if Fred has time that day and is
t harassed by the worries of prearing a program for the following week, he usually leaves the hotel rather early and goes to the gymnasium where he spends an hour or two in what 1 imagine is rather violent exercise, because he comes home quite fagged out and tired after the experience.
Then we usually have lunch and after lunch Fred is sure to have something to do about his imminent radio program. An afternoon passes in which Fred is writing and I am sewing, or both of us are reading, I for amusement and Fred with the idea of keeping up on the times so that he can find material about which to say funny things. In the late afternoon we usually try to have a walk downtown or around the park to get the air, and then we have dinner along about half past six.
Usually I am the one who suggests going out to a theatre or moving picture show and if Fred happens to be in the mood he may rise to the suggestion and consider the idea a good one. But it is rather rare that these •moods are on my husband. He usually prefers to sit at home at night reading a book and I find that, after the temporary disappointment of not going out for the evening has passed, I am enjoying myself too.
In answer to the question I am asked many times, which is whether a comedian is difficult to live with, either because he cracks too many jokes or because, as sophisticated people have learned, some humorous men in public prove to be very unhumorous in their private lives, that is really not true of my husband. I feel that he views most things with an increasing calm. And yet he is never dull. What better combination could you ask?
As for the little difficulties which wives find in pleasing their husbands, in regard to the general management of the home, I can say this one thing without fear of contradiction. Fred Allen seems to like everything that I cook, not merely to the extent of eating it without complaint, but to the extent of eating it with many exclamations of enthusiasm. I think that is a real tribute to the restraint with which Fred Allen governs his private life, because I have never considered myself a good cook. (Continued on page 80)
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# Pretty Portland Hoffa in a serene moment of her happy marriage to Fred Allen
Mrs. Fred Allen, wife, radio sfooge and confidential secretary to the popular comedian, tells RADIO MIRROR readers what it's like to be married to a man whose job is to make the listening-in world laugh
BY PORTLANDHOFFA