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To get the stars that draw the business into the Sands, Entratter had to start in 193d when he first worked at the French Casino la Hew Fork as assistant to producer Clifford Fisher. His affinity for making friends of the stars, future stars, the struggling performer, and stars of the business world as well, seemed to be a natural one of friendliness, understanding, and patience. Up the ladder, from the French Casino, to the Stork Club, then to the Copacabana in 1946 as part owner and producer, and finally as president and producer at the Sands, these qualities hare been rewarded. Bis stars ere his friends, rather than paid performers * the classic example of "this regard which performer# hare for him is the fact that Red Skelton, plagued by unhappy business management for years, asked Entratter to be bis personal advisor and manager. Entratter now handles all of Redvs business, guides Skelton's career which nets Red more than three million dollars a year - hut Jack refuses to take the usual personal manager's percentage. He feels Red is his friend, he plays for him at the Sands sight record-breaking weeks a year ?╟≤ . that's the relationship which percentages and money cannot ehlp into. As a result, when Entratter suddenly found himself without a show ena night when his curaent star became sick 3 hours before showtime, it tats Red Skelton tdio flew up from a heavy TV-making schedule in