“Kaye Is Admitted In Rumpled State”
Beaver County Times – Oct. 13, 1969
By: Earl Wilson
NEW YORK – His long hair uncombed, his beard a little ragged, Danny Kaye descended upon Sardi’s the other day in flying togs after piloting is own jet from Kansas City and professed to be surprised that they would let him inside wearing just a leather jacket, slacks and a “koichiff.”
“I remember when they wouldn’t let you in like this – now you have to wear this to be on the Best Dressed List,” said Danny.
Zooming around the country promoting “The Mad Woman of Chaillot” picture, Danny said he’d just come in from visiting some of his radio stations – of which he has “several” – and made light of the fact that he’s now “one of the soldiers for Warner Brothers.”
“They take me by the hand like a starlet and if I give an interview like this, I am supposed to increase the gross of the picture $2,500,000. I doubt it, don’t you?”
Danny, who’s about to begin another picture “Don Quixote,” as well as going into
the Las Vegas international in November as a four-
“By the way, Danny,” we said, hanging back, “you mentioned ‘koichiff.’ What’s a koichiff?”
“You ignorant or something?” demanded Danny, “Don’t you know your pronunciation? A koichiff is like everybody in Ohio calls a kerchief, only a koichiff is more refined. I’m really surprised at you people never knowing what a koichiff is!”