Palace Theater Review

Earl Wilson’s Broadway – “Generous Danny Kaye Is Present-Day Jolson”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Jan. 22, 1953
By: Earl Wilson

            The big trouble with humans is, they’re human.
            Be stingy . . .  they squawk. Be generous . . . they still squawk.
            By my watch, Danny Kaye was “on” 1 hour and 35 minutes at his glamorous and magnificent Palace opening.
            What talent! He danced, sang, hilariously off-key, handled 4 dialects, was humble and charming–was as great as any star living.
            Yet a few people—a very few—muttered. “Danny was on too long.”
            Rubbish and claptrap! The same people’ll rave to you how “Jolson used to stay on all night.” Danny’s the Jolson of today—and count yourself lucky if you ever get him for 95 minutes.
            Danny was cute when he said, “I’ll tell you a little secret. There is nobody in the world who likes to hear me entertain better than me.”

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