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Show ' PROGRESSIVE OPINION r Entertainers Travel Rough and Perilous Circuif Taking USO-Cam- p Shows to Remote Fighting Front; Wl- - - - 1 try A T' i One Hundred Troupes Play to Soldiers in Open-Ai- r Theaters That familiar truism of the trouper "the show must go on" has taken on a new and vastly different meaning since the advent of USO-cam- p shows those traveling troupes that follow our troops all over the world. True to tradition, the show, of course, does go on from the back of an army truck mired in the jungles of New Guinea, to the accompaniment of grinding winches on a dock alongside a troop transport, amid the icy glaciers of the Arctic, at base hospitals behind firing Unoc in thf shadow of SmOUl- - Sgt. Robert Bank's pulse and respiration went up several J. when this band of entertainers dropped Into this hospital tent l Aleutians. Players left to right are Naomi Stevens, Mary i! Grace and Harry Masters, and George Cerutti. landing unexpectedly be.,.., bombings on the Island ot t-leria, gave a performance k ' underground airplane ha::" Another camp show troupe act?, gave a show in a submarine. Returning from an members of one camp show uniu" nounced that they had bee authorities on the sands o! world. They had played in ve sandstorms in Egypt; in in Tunisia that had hair, face and clothes a red; and in white sandstorrau Iran that made brunettes look El platinum blondes. While up in sr. covered mountains, they s.?;: sub-zer- o cold; down in the val, they had to wrap themselves : wet sheets in order to sleep in ;. heat. Travel Through Mine Fields. Another troupe that spent with fliers at advanced never took a trip to a mr.:; encampment when they didn't hi; to pick their way through Once they parked their tti truck two feet from a live k: mine. It was the heartbreak:.-- ; s perience of this troupe of gctt.nj know some of the boys who not to return from : missions. Cnce the troupe w: miles in their truck to give an show when they les::;: that a certain squadron's ccc manding officer had been shot day. Another camp show unit t: started a North African shew sr.: an audience of 1,500 soldiers, h: the disconcerting experience oi ten men leave, then ten rr.:s then another ten, until finally were playing to a mere handfJ restless soldiers. Afterward, it: learned that a landing by t:- commandoes had been reported e: their audience had been called c to track them down. Camp show performances as often attended by hazards c: perils as well as discomforts z: inconveniences. One troupe f&e seven weeks at road camps in Iran mountains that were re-tained to keep open the ws which supplies and arms were s-ting to Russia. Bandits were in neighborhood, and the leave the camps re-armed guards. Air Raid Halts Show. Sometimes sudden enemy it necessary to halt a ;'' formance in the middle of its " dramatic or interesting ir.on'.re'. Italy where the players are quently close behind the t lines, such interruptions are no: : frequent. In one instance derin'g Vesuvius, or on newly-wo-territory in Europe. No longer, however, does the audi-ence go to the show; the show is taken to the audience an audience, by the way, that now numbers more than 11,000,000 men and wom-en of our armed forces to whom, by orders of the War department, the show goes on in combat zones in every area where our fighting forces are located. It's something new for both the show business and the army to in-clude traveling troupes in the army's special services. That is, it was new until Pearl Harbor. Now they're as much a part of the army fare as GI chow, and equally as essential. One is a physical neces-sity, the other a psychological stimulant. In the last two and a half years, USO-Cam- p shows have grown from a mere experiment to a g activity that would stagger the most traveled old trouper to contemplate. Today, USO-Cam- p shows operate approximately 100 units in com-bat zones in every sector of the fighting fronts. For obvious reasons of military expedience no estimate of the "house count" at these per-formances has been made public, but it's a safe guess that the "SRO" sign was out at every one. In the western hemisphere another 100 USO-Cam- p shows are appearing at army camps and naval bases, with an estimated monthly attendance of 2,000,000 men and women of the armed forces who are kept laugh-ing by professional entertainers of stage, screen and radio. USO-Cam- p shows are operated as activity of USO (United Service organizations) and are financed by the National War fund, of which USO is a member agency. Stage Stars Volunteer. From headquarters occupying half a dozen floors in a building at 8 West Fortieth street. New York City, USO-Cam- p shows plan, pre-pare and direct the assembling of both talent and programs for the various units. Paid entertainers, recruited from theatres, night clubs and vaudeville booking agen-cies, constitute the permanent or-ganization of the world-wid- e cir-cuits. Augmenting the regular staff are stars of Broadway and Holly-wood, together with well-know-n radio personalities, who volunteer their services for a limited period. In obtaining volunteers from the screen colony, USO-Cam- p shows has the cooperation of the Hollywood Victory committee which has en-listed many of the foremost stars of motion pictures. Among notables of the cinema who have been mem-bers of USO-Cam- p shows to enter-tain our boys in combat zones were: Joe E. Brown, William Gargan, Marlene Deitrich, Adolph Menjou, Paulette Goddard, Gary Cooper, Una Merkel, George Raft, Phyllis Brooks, Frederic March, Louise Andy Arcari, Jean Clyde, Bob Hope, Keenan Wynn, Al Jolson and John Garfield. Although the screen luminaries volunteer for a minimum of 12 weeks, some of them trouped the various circuits for as long as 30 weeks, enduring all kinds of incon-veniences and hardships, but taking them in stride and actually enjoying the experience. Many of the lesser-know- n paid entertainers on "sleeper-jump-ing" tours of 50,000 and 100,000 miles have been out for as long as 11 months, visiting little out-posts in remote regions, isolated camps in Central and East Africa, army transport command stops in the Arabian wilderness, or lonely road camps in the snow-covere- d mountains of Iran. The business of obtaining the tal-ent and putting together a show unit is the function of USO-Cam- p shows, a function usually conducted on spe-cific orders from the army special services division which requisitions entertainment by much the same method as GI supplies are ordered. In typical army terseness, a direc-tive will be issued to camp shows for a certain type of entertainment to be provided by a specified number of performers for a designated area and time. USO-Cam- p shows follows instructions. At the designated time and place, the show is turned over to the army, and thereafter it is practically as much a part of the army as the GI Joes. Where the show goes, when it goes, how long it stays and when it "does its stuff" are all prescribed by the army. Transportation, food, sleeping quarters are furnished by the army. Many performers give their service; others are paid nomi-nal salaries. Troupers Endure Heat, Cold. Although details of the tours are handled by the army with charac-teristic military precision, putting on the show many times isn't exactly a cinch. In fact, it is often attended by difficulties, hazards or interruptions. Even the army isn't able to provide transportable the-atres, stage "props" and equipment. "Tramping the boards," a familiar expression of the trouper, is exactly that with Camp show entertainers, for the show is usually given from a crude, improvised stage of boards thrown up wherever the audience is stationed. The locale of a show may be in a jungle where the temperature climbs to as high as 130 degrees; it may be at a lonely mountain side outpost, or in the midst of desert wastes. One USO-Cam- p show unit enemy planes roared over du. performance, the audience ri troupers sat in darkness for until the alarm passed and the 2" could continue. One troupe touring the Iran had to travel HO through mountains, in a c:;"" There were 136 tunnels, and time the train went through nel it was like going into an - At a mountain stop in ln players learned that the boy tioned there hadn't had fresh - in weeks. They organized a -; ing expedition and, armei army pistols, shot 11 Rl1 '." Their show was a great M night. "We gave them ha'11 fed them ham, too," they said. Thus, day in and day cui show goes on making ever on the "Icicle Circuit" along can highway in Alaska; the ' hole Circuit" in the South the "Desert Circuit" Africa, Iran, Lybia and And as rapidly as our vance, USO-cam- p shows up to entertain the Wa& combat troops and provide an dote for operational fatig"e- I i' i '-- '' w i - J: Comedian Joe E. I r8 Brown toured - Len,rth Paic area for many 1 . SK I" e,,ghelntis T""enter- - - j t ingcrauartanop nairthea- - SOLEMN WARNING TO CAPITAL AND LABOR The war on the home front has begun! The guns and swords are being cleaned and polished for the Capital and Labor Revolution1?which promises to be the worst in the annals of man. Big business, beginning at Montgomery-Ward- s, has lined up in defiance of government and labor.and of course labor will try to hold all its hard-wo- n gains. The issue is drawn. We Give Solemn Warning. We give here our most solemn warning to the super-worl- d of Capital and the humbler world of Labor. Our loudest and clearest call is to the proud, mighty and arrogant men of wealth the favored and the privileged who have enjoyed all that this goodly land could give. Men! Will you listen to us from our humble place? Hardly. But other voices are calling to you to be more wise, more just, more brotherly, more cooperative, and less greedy. God is calling to you! Both Testaments of the Old Book are ailing to you! .Every Prophet who has dared to speak is calling to you! Calling to you to save yourselves and your fellow men and our civilization. The Same Call Is Made to Labor The same loud, clear call is made to labor. It has come up through much tribulation to the strong, commanding position it holds today and it must be careful not to do anything that will break down its prestige and en-danger its own and the publics peace and security. Workers, we're your friend and solemnly warn you to keep to the right andpeacefnl way lest you bring disaster upon yourselves and your country, which needs you as never before. Better give in a little now, better endure a little now than lose al! a little later A Dark Future If The Fight Goes On It must not be that Capital and Labor will let conditions come that many have predicted. Will they stand stubborn and sullen and defiant until they come to grips and start the fires of civil strife, until cities are laid waste, in-dustries destroyed, nefghbor against neighbor, and states against states? Will they let a condition come about that will leave their fine sons and daughters stranded over seas? God forbid! They had better take warning in time. The hand writing is on the wall. Let those who are out to destroy labor unions and governmental power read it and tremble. And what about race troubles? What about the many who are ready to stsike down the government? The outlook is indeed ominous. ITEMS OFTRUTH WHO WERE the CRUCIFIERS? SOME SAY THEY KILLED JESUS BECAUSE HE WAS AGAINST THEIR ECONOMIC SYSTEM "For which of my good works do ye seek to kill me?" asked Jesus. They assured him that it was not for his good works, not for his teachings, not because he was the enemy of their religion or their nation. But, according to an article in Destipy Magazine, there was another reason. Certain forces who represented profiteering, wealth and privilege and power, they were the guilty ones, who hired certain ones to do the crucifying. The people never condemned him, they sympa-thized with him. The ruling class hated him. "The violent death of Jesus was a class murder perpetrated by the class that feared for its privileges. He drove out the money-changers!" That was his crime. He charged them with making merchandise of the word of God. The people had to offer sacrifices and the poor could afford only the less costly ones which were pigeons. Jesus, as a boy, had seen his poor mother come time after time with her few pennies to buy one or more pigeons. Seeing that people had to have them the profiteers raised the price to ten times what it was at other times and cornered the market, thus robbing the poor and needy. The high priests in control gave the concessions to their capitalistic friends and relatives. So the temple was used as a robber's roost. It was these practices that led Jesus to "drive the gouging brokers forth with whips, to kick over their tables and send their money rolling over the pavement." He spoke of the unwarranted financial burdens "religion" laid upon the people; how long prayers went with shady deals; the in-humanity and rottenness of the economic system; so his Kingdom of Heaven was a counter economic system. His purpose was then, and is now, to form a society that would make the old economic system obsolete and push it off the earth. And that is why they killed him! And that is why they would kill him today! He scorned their wealth. He would not exchange his soul for their dollars. He would not become a "respected, successful" man. And because he would not sell his soul they killed him. We tell you with all the force we have, that this is what is going on in the world today. The system which Jesus tried to destroy in the temple, the old, obsolete economic system, is being pushed off the earth. And He, Jesus, cannot return to earth until this pushing off and pushing out is done. We are for his economic system with every fiber of our soul! KEEP THE AMERICAN HOME AS IT ALWAYS SHOULD OE A radio speaker pleads for the sanctity and decency of the home. "Keep the homes fit for the boys to come home to." How they will need to gather to the bosom of the kind, warm, peaceful, decent home, the finest and pur-est sancturay known to man, from which should come all the things that go o make life true and beautiful and good. Some of the heroic boys oyer here may be likened unto John Howard Payne, author of the immortal ong. "How often have I been in Paris, Berlin, London or other cities and heard people sing and play Home, Sweet Home wfthout having a cen' in my pocket to buy a meal or a place to lay my head. The world has sung my song until every heart is familiar with the melody. Yet I have been a wanderer from boyhood." Make a good home for the boys! God bless them every one! Hansen Asks Much The American Legion post at Aroarillo, Texas, has given its opmion concerning the peoples celebration when news comes of Hitler's final defeat.' The Lgion says that the proper ce-lebration is one that should be not only joyous but also of a solemn nature, thanking Almighty God for the victory brougt to the American people through His grace. Among the fine suggestions are these: "The immediate illumination of all the churches that the people may repair there at once for a thanksiiiv;ng service, "and ' A request for a voluntary three-da- y closing of places dispensing liquor to the end that our boys who will still be overseas may not be insulted by having their people at home celebrate this occasion by of intoxicating liquor." C. V.Hansen. "The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries, or shops, or farms, or mines of the nation ; "The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; j "The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a. return which will give him and his family a decent living ; "The right to adequate medical care and the oppor-tunit- y to achieve and enjoy good health; People who would be the first to in any clean-up or sanitary campaign, who are meticulous about keeping their garbage covered, their cellars free of dirt, their drink-ing water filtered and purified, will turn a deaf ear to the juvenile-delinquenc- y problem. As members of the community, they should be alive to it. They should object to barrooms, houses of ill fame, bad gangs, smutty literature, bad movies. They should campaign actively for sufficient playgrounds properly manned. They should get together in groups to demand necessary civic re-forms along this line. Such united effort in a direct line would build up the moral tone of the community and create the strongest possible influence against delinquency. Come to important water meeting Monday, June 19, 2 p. m. Governor's Board Room lefs Broaden WiMPB fc Industries supporting a population suffi-cient to consume most of the products grown and much of those manufactured within a state makes for a healthy economic condition. Normally the employees of Utah's mining industry and those directly dependent upon , it spend $15,575,000 for food, $6,400,000 for rent and homes and $4,750,000 for clothins annually. V"A" The mineral industry's average disburse-jme- nt for wages, freight and supplies amounts to $85,000,000. lV Every citizen should cooperate at every opportunity to promote industrial expan-sion, which will broaden Utah's market. THE fETAL ft! SHE KG IMBUSTKY EF International SmcltinE & Refining Co. :: United States Smelting Refinine und Mininc Company :: Silver King Coalition Mines Co. :: American Smelting & Refining Co. Utah Coppei Company :: Combined Metals Reduction Co. :: Chief Consolidated Mining Company :: Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company :: Ohio Copper Company of Uta! Tintic Standard Mining Company , j :j - j j; ! ro t J !' !; THE WORD OF PEACE I; !' !' Only the Christ can speak the word of '! i peace, i 5 And only into pure hearts can it fall, ' 5 Hearts that are lifted challices of love, ij ! Centered upon the Perfect One of all. !' ! Only the Christ can still the troubled ! sea 'I '! That our own fears have ruffled in the !' ! night, j! And when we turn to Him in yielding ' trust ( He gives us peace according to our light! ;1 5 When will peace come again into the j! i world? ij 'I When everyone is truly purified, !' ! When each has let his egotistic-sel- f Ji Be lifted on the cross, be crucified, '! When into His hands each one will ! commend i ! His life then peace will come and war '! i will end! i Claire Stewart Boyer. 'Home Talent' Skits Prepared by Armv no-i- . Give Soldiers a Chance tEmmain There aren't enough U. S. O Themselves i "view pro vised upon and adapted ous local situations in " combat areas. The show and c staged with props made from scrap materials. "The show has to O maximum possibility '01 .,f; tility," General Byron "and appeal to the avers je who, if he had more time. work out the details hi not only like to entertain , selves, but also want to , thing in this line for them f troupes to get around, so Brigadier General Byron of the army special services division decided to help tne boys entertain themselves He had some playlets written under the d"ecb0? of GeorSe Kaufman and playwrights that men could Produce themselves anywhere, WOe with equipment and costuming. are 8ruped into . sort of called "About Face" broad larce on military Ufe draft Vr sergeants, WACs ' ,nd Slmilar sub- - Sha" as Psented first in Camp Yhere 11 made a hit WAcfyeVaTpnretes "About Face" is full of jar gon and wisecracks. It consists or eraTCon1 skits "wTS said can be selected, 1m- - |