COMEDIAN IN ARMY
JIM GERALD’S APPOINTMENT BECOMES LIEUT.-COLONEL Jim Gerald, the comedian whose most famous burlesque act for the last 20 years has been to impersonate an untidy, half-witted private, recently became a genuine immacu-lately-dressed honorary lieutenantcolonel. The War Cabinet has put him in charge of all Australian Imperial Force entertainment overseas. On his first day of duty senior officers saluted him, and Colonel Gerald admitted that he could not quite believe that it was all real. “ It is funny, I know,” he said, “and a lot of people will laugh. But lam going to take this seriously. When I came back from the last war I started to appear as ‘ Private Jitters,’ and on the stage I’ve always been a hopeless recruit, or one of those funny privates. “ The things I’ve said about colonels—my gosh, I wouldn’t like to repeat them now. You see, I’ve got to uphold the dignity of my rank. 1 hardly even met a colonel in three years in the last war.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21417, 10 May 1941, Page 13
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