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And that's her husband on the inside back cover.
By J ETTA CARLETON
SHE likes steak, he goes for lobster. She walks, he runs. She's eventempered, he's volatile as a paper boat. She's analytic, he operates on instinct. She talks, he Hstens. But they both laugh at the same things and like the same people. And they like each other. That why they're married. That's why Sylvia Fine is Mrs. Danny Kaye.
For both of them, Brooklyn's their neighborhood. Sylvia's father was a dentist. She used to work in his office for a dollar a day. There, to the contrapuntal rhythms of a drill, she started dreaming up such stuff as very few dreams are made of — but which helped make Danny Kaye what he is today— and we're satisfied!
It turns out that Sylvia's father once employed Danny, too; but he and Sylvia never happened to be at the same place at the same time. They didn't meet until 12 years later, when Danny was making an appearance in a semi-professional revue at one of New York's outlying theatres. Sylvia thought Danny was pretty funny. And he was. But not too funny for words. So Sylvia wrote some words. It wasn't long until she was writing all the special material that really began to make Danny Kaye heard. He
was at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos as a singing waiter and whatnot for awhile. At the end of the season, the camp produced "The Straw Hat Revue," and the Shuberts took it down to Broadway where the critics promptly sat on and crushed it.
Drowning his disappointment in salt water, Danny telephoned Sylvia from Florida. Please, would she come on down? A few weeks later, Sylvia's physician conveniently advised her to go south for a rest. Danny met her at the station with $40— his sole earthly possessions — and asked her to marry him.
"If she'd said, 'Let's not do it,' I'd have been most happy to back out," Danny recalls. "But we were both too stubborn, waiting for the other to say it, so we got married." And that's how Danny Kaye's writer and severest critic became his wife.
She almost always accompanies him in special appearances and with Max Liebman writes practically all his comedy material. In the new RKO Radio picture, WONDER MAN, Miss Fine had a hand in writing both