European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 04, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse S m t p is my Mia Eva Rin t tent Rstine cent you. Get by Morton p. Gudebrod is Paris Bureau Phe Only performer in the whole j. Glittering revue at Paris Lido night club who gets regular fan mall is the show s comedian an american named or. Lewis and he in t even . Lewie a pedigreed Springer Spaniel tops the show nightly simply by being the most Compla Santly untrained trained dog Ever to tread the Board. By raiding Limp Ness to Nart he has conquered two continent and among his ardent admirers a Gary Grant. Maurice Chevalier the Duke of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth 11 of England Ula reaction to All this Adula Tion. If any. Is . Lewis earns a fat Dollar salary by appearing nightly with his owner. Bob Wollams but it is Williams who does All the work. On stage at least the owner owned relationship seems reversed maintaining the air of false Confidence and slightly hysterical Patter of a a Etc a whose trick Don t work Williams to Defeated nightly by the indomitable Enaul of or. s the old spirit Lou Lei come on out Here and show your Stu of boy up on the table boy cries Williams As or. Lewis Sticks his Bead through the Back drop and contemplates the occupants of ringside tables with the worried concern that All spaniels eel towards the human race. Pushed into the limelight or. Lewis ignores Williams entreaties and ambles around the rim of the stage stopping occasionally to stare blankly at some Mem bar of the audience who catches his at Tention. When the dog refuses even Totcoff Nylz has Prince William gathers him up to put him on a table or Lewis docs not oppose this nor. On Tow other hand Doe he cooperate. He simply goes Limp. No sooner does William set pan of or. Lewis on the table to than another part slides off. The animal seeing to have the consistency of a furry balloon half filled with Mercury. Wuu tvs goes gamely on shouting in courage mint and making frenzied Effort to assemble or. Lewis into something recognizable onco coaxed into n sitting position or. Lewis forelegs und to Start thursday april 4, 1963 spreading slowly apart and Williams Hensto act fast to Avert utter collapse. All right now Louie boy sing come on now. Boy. Ting for the people sing buy Williams a tends. Good boy Ting now or. Lewis responds with in enormous Pink Yawn. Audiences wildly rip pin my the dog s Man try Over Man is bullfight fun cheer a Bull that confounds u made the acquaintance of the messes. Leu and William after n recent per for Munce and quickly discovered that it s Only before the footlights that or. Lewis holds the upper he is the pet of everybody backstage from elect rec inns to stately showgirls he accepts the attentions mod Estly. Nobody except his Muster addresses him by the familiar Louie everybody else including the Doorman at his right Bank apartment House gives him the full or. in off stack life or. Lewis in Mcahon ably obedient and shit res with the average dog an aversion to cuts and a compulsive interest in in posts. He is Content with a Dally meal con sisting of a can of american dog food he finds the French product too Rich with some leftover from the will lems dinner liable a a . He keeps actor s hour rarely bedding Down before 3 . And arising at about noon ready Tor his Dally run along the quays of the Seine or in a nearby Par Williams who has acted in several Muni Cal films and written movie scenarios was associated Slih Danny knee in 1950 in producing a show in san Francisco. The decided u dog act was needed so Williams wrote a sketch Mirring Bis own Dun named red who Hud quilt a repertoire of tricks. The skit was u Hupci is. Hut tied passed on soon at the Ripe in age of 17.as b Consolation. Mrs Jerry Lewis wife of the corneal in gave Williams one of a litter of Span Elx Frum her kennels. Wil Liams named the dug after Jerry Imd but about trying to teach him tricks. It was Long before lie discovered that or. Lewis passive resistance to theatrical training was funnier than any tricks he might someday persuade him to do. His Hunch was so Rood that the Deadpan Pooch hns been supporting the Williams in Miff Ever s a rehearsed doff not n trained dog Williams explains. Louie is a Horn actor. To go through rehearsals now and then just to keep the act smooth but i m not putt inn Louie through tricks. He knows what he doing and i m hid straight he wan appearing in London a few years Back. Or. Lewis movements were rigidly restricted by British quarantine was hardly allowed out of the theater except for Little exercise runs Williams say. Then one night a visitor came to our dressing room it wi2 lord mount Batten he sold he was having a few friends in at ills town House and asked if or Lewis could come and entertain them. "1 told him about the quarantine but to sold not to worry about that so Louie and i were bundled into a limousine an smuggled to mount Bulten s. There were Only five truest there Andone of them was Queen Elizabeth. It was just a few weeks before her second son was born and she was t appearing i Public. So she arranged to see or. Leu at her Uncle was told at the time that the visit was to be kept top secret so Louie missed Tot of publicity. But it s been declassified or. Lewis is scheduled to remain at the Lido through the summer but no much longer. He has con t reel for top drawer nightclub dates Back in the states in the fall and will a a regular perform Ron the Jack Paar to show. And he could t Core less. Is photo by Ted Rohde or. Leu is the la pest dog in town despite boost by Bob Williams. 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