Davy's Sister Talks About the Girl He'll Marry

NOBODY KNOWS DAVY BETTER THAN HIS SISTER BERYL! IN THIS EXCLUSIVE DB INTERVIEW! SHE TELLS YOU ALL ABOUT THE GIRL WHO'LL WIN HIM

If Davy Jones is the cautious kind of bachelor who measures girls against the qualities of his sisters, then a girl who wants Davy has three models to consider-Hazel, Beryl, and Linda.

And though there couldn't be a closer knit family-affection-wise-than the Joneses, David is probably closer to the middle one, Beryl. Perhaps this is because she took over when their mother died. David was 14.

Another big factor is that Beryl shared his early entertaining ambitions.

"And in doing so he caused me the most embarrassing moment of my life," she recalls now, with a laugh.

AMATEUR HOUR

"We were on holiday in the Isle of Wight and as usual, Davy was looking for an amateur talent competition to enter. Sure enough, there was one in the theatre at thee end of the pier. Straight away he went up on stage.

"How old are you, sonny?" asked the Master of Ceremonies.

"Fourteen," replied David chirpily.

"You're not!"

"I AM," came the indignant retort.

"Right away," Beryl continued," David had the audience with him-and the M.C. entered into the spirit of the moment so there was a lot of banter and laughs. But the bigger laugh came when the M.C. suggested that David tell the stage pianist what he wanted to sing.

"I don't need your pianist," he declared looking up into the M.C.'s face. "I've got my own!"

"I looked round for a hole in the pier to fall through. David had walked to the edge of the stage and was calling me up! I had to scramble along a row of seats and walk up the aisle with people clapping and cheering."

DAVY WAS A HIT

"How I ever managed to play a note I don't know. David sang his favorite song of the moment-'Donna'-and had so many encores that we went through all the numbers we entertained oold people with at clubs and homes around Mancheester.

"He was a hit, all right. He won that competition for the juniors and was invited back that night to do a special turn in the adult contest."

CHEEK AND TEASING

The lass who gets this lad must always expect the unexpected, and be subject to a bit of cheek and teasing.

Beryl declares that as a boy he was always trying to "BOO!" the life out of her. But she though he'd overdone the cheek when she caught him in her wardrobe!

"Hey nosey. What are you doing in there? OUT!"-and Davy dodged a well-aimed blow, leaving the room much quicker than he'd gone in. Two days later, Beryl now admits to feeling all kinds of emotions. It was her birthday and Davy presented her with a skirt!

"He'd been in my wardrobe to find out what size I took," she explains. "And he'd had no qualms about going into the ladies shop to buy it , either."

GENEROUS DAVY

So the girl who gets Davy will get a man much interested in her appearance-and also one with good taste. Beryl says the skirt was beautiful.

At the same time she reveals that Davy, though generous to a fault, tends to be forgetful. While the skirt is the present she most remembers, a wathc on a neckchain is the one she most treasures. He bought all his sisters one of these on his trip home for the U.S.A.

"But he forgets-and keeps buying us watches," Beryl laughs. "If we were to wear all he'd bought us at the same time we'd sound like walking tickers."

NO GIRLS

Looking back, Beryl can think of no girls in David's young life. A couple at school perhaps, but no girl-next-door romance.

"He was too small and most of the girls too tall. They wouldn't go with him-and he refused to look up to lasses."

Now height diesn't seem to worry him particularly. According to Beryl he prefers blondes. But that shouldn't cause too much concern to the others, for Beryl's hair is dark.

"We had a cat once which he called Marilyn because we believe, he was a fan of Marilyn Monroe. Certainly there was no other explanation, because the cat was by no means blonde-a sort of reddish brown, in fact!

David definetely dislikes catty girls! According to Beryl, they go into his pet hate file along with girls who talk too much or too loud.

DAVY AND CHILDREN

He loves children, especially those of his sisters-Hazel's daughter, 7-year-old Deborah, and baby son Robert, and Linda's 18-month-old boy Mark.

Until recently, whenever he returned home he always brought a big toy animal especially for Deborah. They were so big, in fact, that Beryl laughing maintains you could hardly see her brother behind them!

Beryl has no children. She has been married just over a year-and it looked like being the big disappointment of her young life when David announced he would be too busy on "Monkee business" to attend the wedding.

"We'd already put the date off for him to be there. We then settled for the day after Boxing Day-the year before last."

When Beryl heard that Davy couldn't make that date she was tempted to postpone the wedding again until she faced up to the fact that he could be just as busy any time. So she went ahead with the arrangements.

WEDDING SURPRISE

"About a week before the wedding we were sitting quietly at home when there was such a banging at the front door. I thought, "who the devil can that be-knocking as though they owned the place!" I went to the door in that kind of mood ready to tell off whoever it was.

"When the door was opened Davy walked in and past me as if he'd been out for the evening and had just got off the No. 53 bus which stops at the top of the road! Dad was snoozing before the fire. David 'shussed' me, crept up behind him and nearly made him jump out of his skin!"

There's that tease-trait again!

GOIN' FISHIN'

Beryl's husband Alan, owns a sports-gear shop. He's one of his own best customers for, according to Beryl, he's 'fishin' mad."

"And I must have been mad to marry him," she jokes. "As though I didn't have enough of fishing when Davy was a boy. Dad was, and still is a mad-keen fisherman and we often used to go out to rivers on Sundays.

"I remember once Davy was sitting between Dad and me on the back when he began restless. He was only eleven at the time. Anyway, he began to move away.

"Don't go near that water," Dad ordered.

"Davy didnt' like being told this. He went off in a sulk. We didn't hear or see anything of him for about five minutes, then, there was a dreadful splash just below a nearby.

"Without hesitating, Dad had his coat and sweater off and was tugging away at a shoe when he caught sight of Davy-hiding behind a bush grinning at him!

"It wasn't Davy who'd gone in the water but a big brick he'd thrown to scare off the fish. Anyway, it was Davy who was scared then. I had to walk about two miles up the river bannnk to find him and tell him that it was all right to go back-Dad had cooled down!"

Beryl was often David's protector. She recalls times when if bigger boys were about to bully him and he would scare them off with a threat of telling his big sister. BIG SISTER! "I'm only 5 ft 2 now," Beryl laughs.

"He certainly came in for a rough time when he was young through being small. He was nearly 14 before he had his first pair of long trousers! And I bought him these against our Mum's wishes. She didn't like the idea of him in long pants. Said he'd look look a little old man."

The way David has fought his way to the top of his chosen profession shows he needs no-one to help him out now.

FUSSY?

And watch this, girls-he says what's in his mind, please or offend. "If he thinks I'm putting on weight, or need a hair-do he doesn't hesitate to tell me," assures Beryl.

"He's fussy in many other ways too, especially with food and clothes." Beryl is still his favorite cook-and she knows just what he likes. But don't think the quickest way to David's heart what he likes. But don't think the quickest way to David's heart is through his stomach-with an assist by Beryl. She's already had more than enough of this approach.

BERYL AND FANS

"His fans write to me hoping I'm able to help them. They all want to know how to get in touch with him-as well as an autographed picture, a lock of his hair, and other personal momentoes. Marriage proposals arrive by the dozens. There was one from a girl who said she'd even broken off her own engagement in favor of Davy!"

"It's impossible for me to guess what kind of girl he'll marry," she concluded. "This much I know, when he does the girl will be his own choice, and she'll be the luckiest girl alive."