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PAGE 22 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 19, 1986
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Our Film Folk
by Herbert G. Luft
— HOLLYWOOD
Danny Kaye, recently in Paris
with Chevalier de la Legion
d'Honneur, was presented with the
same decoration in a special cere
mony at the home of Bernard
Miyet, consul general of France, at
a Beverly Hills reception attended
by this columnist. I had watched
Danny some 40 years ago when, at
the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, he
starred in “The Kid from Brook
lyn,” The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty,” and later as “Hans Chris
tian Anderson.”
Danny was honored for his life
time commitment to humanitarian
works as well as for his artistry as
an actor. The French government
has recognized his 33 years as
UNICEF’s ambassador-at-large
during which he toured the world
to bring a sense of hope and a
moment of laughter to children.
Over a period of 23 years he has
raised close to $8 million for musi
cians’ pension funds by conducting
symphonic orchestras, though he
never learned to read music.
Born Daniel Kaminsky in New
York City Jan. 18, 1913, the son of
an immigrant Russian-Jewish tai
lor, he adapted his name from the
label Danny K that his friends gave
him in his youth. He got his start in
show business by “tummeling” at
summer resorts in the Catskill
mountains. He was clowning about
the premises for the enjoyment of
the guests at all hours of the day
and night. He first came to the
attention of theater-goers in the
Kurt Weill-Moss Hart musical,
“Lady in the Dark,” when he up
staged Gertrude Lawrence with his
“Tchaikovsky” rendition, rattling
off the names of more than 50 Rus
sian composers in 38 seconds.
Much of his earlier material was
written for him by Sylvia Fine,
daughter of a Brooklyn dentist for
whom Kaye had worked briefly as
an errand boy. Sylvia married him
in 1941 and continued to write his
special material for many years.
From the show-stopper in “Lady
in the Dark,” Kaye jumped into
stardom on Broadway with “Let’s
Danny Kaye
Face It,” a musical revue which
was made into a film with Bob
Hope.
But his stage appearance had
been caught by the late Samuel
Goldwyn who brought him to Hol
lywood in 1943 for his first motion
picture, “Up in Arms,” with youth
ful Dinah Shore at his side. He
proved to be a completely novel
kind of song and dance man, with
an inventiveness Hollywood had
not seen since Eddie Cantor. For
Goldwyn, Kaye appeared in a
number of musicals, later made
films on a more serious note, most
notably “Me and the Colonel” and
“The Madwoman of Chaillot” for
other production companies.
He went into television in 1956,
appearing on Edward R. Murrow’s
“See It Now,” after he had an even
dozen starring films behind him.
Four years later, he made his debut
in TV entertainment with three
specials, “An Evening with Danny
Kaye,” one of them co-starring
Lucille Ball. In the same period, he
made his first Las Vegas nightclub
appearance, toured the Orient and
performed as guest conductor in
Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles and
Washington and visited Russia at
the behest of the State Department.
“The Danny Kaye Show,” start
ing on CBS-TV in September 1963,
had a four-year run, bringing him
four Emmy awards for himself and
his collaborators. His television
performances include “Pinocchio,”
“Peter Pan,” The “Ringling Bros.
Barnum & Bailey Circus,” “Dis
neyland,” with guest appearances
on the “Twilight Zone.” They also
include an Emmy-winning “Look
at the Met,” from the stage of the
Metropolitan Opera House. But
his most significant dramatic per
formance was in “Skokie,” where
he appeared as a grim survivor of a
Nazi concentration camp.
In June 1967, during the Six-
Day War, he flew to Israel to visit
hospitalized Israeli soldiers. He
performed with or conducted or
chestras to let the Israelis know
that there were people out in the
world who cared for them. Visiting
children’s day camps and kibbut
zim, he also spent time with the
military, political and civilian
segments of the population, re
maining friends with them to this
day.
On our visit to Israel earlier still,
in 1961, we heard that Kaye had
inaugurated the golf course in Cae-
saria (the only one in the country at
that time). After the Six-Day War,
he toured three continents, con
ducting the Israel Youth Sym
phony. For his devotion to the
young democracy in the Middle
East, he received virtually every
honor awarded by that nation,
including the Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Ben-Gurion Uni
versity in 1982.
He has seen as many battlefields
as most Americans in uniform,
over some 33 years, entertaining
troops in World War II, the Korean
War, Vietnam, as well as the Mid
dle East. In 1984 he was the recip
ient of the Kennedy Honors, pres
ented before the president at a
special awards performance in
Washington.
Some years ago, he was Noah in
the biblical play, “Two by Two," in
which he reiterated the dream of a
better society, a dream he helped to
facilitate in many ways. The im
poverished offspring of immigrant
parents, product of the streets of
New York, he became ambassador
of laughter to an entire world and
pied piper to its children.
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A purr-feet ending
TEL AVIV (JTA)--A cat stuck at the top of a 30-foot tree in
the Defense Ministry compound in Tel Aviv for 10 days was
rescued by rappelling amateurs last week after the profession
als— including the army, the police, the fire brigade, the local zoo,
and nature and animal lovers societies—had failed to get the angry,
frightened and hungry feline down to safety.
The soldiers in nearby bases and offices could not get to the top
of the tree. And neither could policemen. The fire brigade failed to
move the cat by spraying water. The SPCA called on experts from
the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo. They fired tranquilizer darts at the
feline but missed the target.
I he Nature Protection Society finally suggested appealing to
young rappelling enthusiasts, whose pastime is handling steep
drops down cliffs by the use of ropes— this time thrown over the
treetop.
The SPL A reported that the cat, which had nothing to eat or
drink for 10 days, was recovering from its ordeal,
— Hugh Orgel
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