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"...wherever you are."
The legend as I heard it a long day ago was that Mrs. Calabash was the boarding-house landlady when Durante and his buddies were struggling young actors, and although they were habitually in arrears she didn't throw them out. When Durante made it big he made it a point to thank her publicly for it in this fashion, and then when she died he added "...wherever you are" to the benediction.
The buddies, btw, were named Clayton and Jackson, and the act was known as "Clayton, Jackson, and Durante." Durante was the only real success, and he made it a point to take care of his old partners. (That's in case you're wondering why, now that you think of it, that highly inferior old comic Eddie Jackson always appeared on The Jimmy Durante Show once a year...)
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