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Show BEAVER PRESS" U. S. Coast Guards Get in Trim . w art During Mr. Winchell't absence, through month of August, his column will be conducted by guest columnist. By JUDY GARLAND Voung Screen Star You don't have to sing or dance to entertain the soldiers. All you have to do is talk. Just pull up a chair, sit down and be prepared to answer a lot of questions. That's one thing I found out during my tour of the Army camps. All the fellows want to know about Hollywood and the motion picture stars and I wanted to know all about them. If the soldiers asked me questions, it didn't compare with the quiz I put them through. All my life I've wanted to travel throughout the United States, staying a week or two in each town. I wanted to meet people from different parts of the country. When you live in one town, your scope is narrowed. Of course, a trip like that would wiw.mmwimia , t. u, . wiw 1 BU you u io give the Axis what they've got deep, Duys, ucvC-ucoming. 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Size Pattern No. , Name Address be impossible for a working girl, boys from every city and state in each camp I met and talked with boys from every city and State in the Union. It was everything I expected and more than an education. I had to know about each one, where he came from and what he did. The thing that touched me most was that they were equally interested in me. If it hadn't been for the boys at Camp Robinson, I would never have had a wedding cake. WEDDING CAKE DONATED TO ME BY SOLDIERS The day we played there was my wedding anniversary. My husband, David Rose, who accompanied me on the trip, and I were talking about it. The boys overheard and that night we were given a surprise party. The highlight of the evening e.'V ue uk.nscruffT TUP BOSS THUEi NOTHING H A Too woo fo us CUTTER BLACKLE60L- -J W Popular Two-Iec- e h HT Go3 C Frock. "JET yourself into this brisk outfit, cut young two-pielike a suit with a cardigan jacket top, an eight gored, pencil-sliPOCATELLO SALT LAKE BOISE skirt and a neat dickey collar, if you want to know true comfort for can was a huge wedding cake topped by summer! Pattern No. 1615-a tiny bride and groom. A wedding be followed by the least expericake was the one thing I felt cheated enced dressmaker. You'll find it HOTEL BEN LOMOND of when we were married. Now I a joy to make in seersucker, crisp had that, thanks to a bunch of swell gingham or slick chambray. It is OGDEN. UTAH stunning, too, for town in a dark people. The first time I sang for the soldiers I was scared to death. My knees shook and my voice trembled Stickler for Good Diction with' a severe case of stagefright It sseems silly now, as I look back Meets Stickler for Facts on it. Every performer dreams of Several men were seated around stopping a show, but believe me, no show was ever stopped with the a table, reminiscing. One fellow, who had been trying to tell his thunderous applause and appreciative response that greets an enter- story for some time, finally broke tainer playing to a group of soldiers. in: "On the day on which my wedTOURING CAMPS LIKE ding occurred " OLD HOME WEEK' "You'll pardon the correction," In a way, touring the camps was like my old vaudeville days. Making broke in the correct dictionist, S5 Batfci - I2.CI to I4.H 8SI Room overnight jumps on milk trains and "but affairs such as marriages, Famllr Rooms for 4 ptrsoni instead of the receptions, dinners, and things of Air Coaled Lonrvf and Lobby playing usual two. It was like "old home that sort 'take place.' It is only Dining Room CoffM Shop Tap Boos Homo of week." Many of the performers such things as calamities which Klwmti Exorattros Rotary were people with whom my mother 'occur.' You see the distinction, ' Eichmngo Oplimioto "JMO" and father, as well as my sisters I am sure." Cbwbn of CoDUBorco and Ad Clob and I, had played in vaudeville. The "corrected" one thought for Hotel Ben Lomond It was wonderful to see these peo- a moment, then replied: "Yes, I OGDEN. UTAH before I As was see. I e twenty-fivheadliners saying years v ple, Hubert E. Vlilck. Mar. ago, return to bring the house down was interrupted, on the day on in Army camps all over the coun- which my wedding occurred" try. One of the troupers told me he never hoped to experience a greater moment than the day he opened at the Palace Theater eighteen years ago. But he did when, with the same act, he received an even greater ovation it Fort Knox in Louisville, Kentucky. A NEW CRADLE FOR TALENT Willie Shore, the "Abba-Dabb- a FRESH Man," who was my favorite comedian when I was a little girl, played with us at one camp. He does an bottle and act with a seltzer-wate- r I used to sit out front with the solwith diers and watch him. It never failed that when he squirted the water it would land on me. This often resulted in my appearing on the stage in a slightly wet and bedraggled condition, but it was wonderful. These performers were all my old friends and it was grand to see them back in front of an audience where they belong. Camp shows -r-have not only brought entertainment frir.tTiDTff ttorAVTA ct" to the soldiers, they have revived vaudeville and opened a new field A big bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes for young hopefuls who up to now with fruit and lots of milk. It gives you have had no opportunity to appear VITAMINS, MINI At$, PHOTUNS, before an audience. A new cradle As recommended by the for talent has been found. U. S. Nutrition Food Rules, Kellogg's Com We did four shows a day. One at 'P.I. Flakes are restored to whole grain nutritive the reception center where the newvalue through the addition of thiamin one in the inducted boys gather, ly (Vitamin BJ, niacin and Iron. hospital and two in the auditorium. At each show I sang two set songs and then did request numbers. It seems the boys favor the old songs and in my case the two outstanding requests were "Over the Rainbow" and "Dear Mr. Gable." The first time they asked for the "Gable" song I was stumped. It had been a long time since I bad the sung it, but after THE lyrics a few times, the original ones to were me. The shows came back all at night and my days were spent touring the camp. There's one thing about the army. It has a swell sense of humor. When I started out I couldn't tell the difference between a private and a Manufacturers tod merchants sense the general. I was introduced to a colonel one night and to the great of the press. Esrly they began using power amusement of all the boys I acit to carry their advertising facts tod ideas knowledged the introduction with a into homes. And they found Itm most "I'm very happy to meet you. Corprofitable way io which to tell their story poral!" to buyers. And the buyers In turn found They howled and when I arrived it profitable to deal with those who wer home they sent me a huge chart to state in print the values and willing listing all the insignia and what each services they offered. stood for. Just to keep me straight, wrote. they m B M-I- at the left Australian and U. S. fighting men are shown resting near bombers at a United Na-bomber squadron base somewhere in New Guinea. From bases in the Pacific, United Nations fliers are feantlr harassine Jan shinninir. as well as bombing Jan bases on the many tiny scattered Islands. Inset: who main- Jive ns some trespassers' is the prayer of these gunners of the U. S. Caribbean command, ceseles watch over that area, so vital to the safety of the Panama canal. in the photo fe f 4 'Diamond King' World's Largest Air Transport Inside 1 TF&ZZ: '.SSSS; 11 four-a-da- y coo, delicious breakfast light and nourishing! JUICY, mi P i,nnrt. and Inrevealcd numbers of jeeps troops can be carried Learn How to Handle Big Ones ricmm. relative by minismarriage to German foreign ter Von Ribbentrop, shown in federal court, New York, as he went on iriai on charges of conspiring wlih Nazis to flood this country with diamonds seized in low countries. Old Settler 1 r i A - '3 t h 'fit ..7 of m..i ' mttte.' R1",? KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES '"'f01' .. 'Uaer. FLAKES rata picture. inartmont. is ilie firsl u 4i,A & ever published, and shows how fully equipped U. .u equ.pm.-mobile seats alongside specially ltr"s Commnn designed world's largest twin- m P PEACHES CORN Jfci the reserve officer, training corps, on a training cruise. u..a VVB 'Tire'" . no u.,,,..,., the numoer ot mo CntrU "7 "re"dy'" 1 A. ...... " no of Oklahoma I hni In Inns out reaUy got thity Corius, 84, Nat on.l war vet. shown while at the His to 0,4 Settlers' picnicto beChicago with him. thirst seems still William !Sn 4rr FOOD-inero- y. 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