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Oakland Tribune

Sunday, November 22, 1959

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My favorite jokes by DURANT WHEN JACK DURANT was a in New York City he promised his grandmother a week if she could get me out of school Somehow grandma engineered the deal and the youngster ran away from home He joined a group of traveling villians and made his debut as a female im- personator in Chicago's Rialto Theatre That was 42 years ago Since then Jack Durant has played in every avenue of show business One of his best anecdotes concerns his ad- ventures in London in 1939 Back then Durant was booked into the Palladium for two weeks His pregnant wife Molly O'Day ...

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