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Show News From Kearns While in Salt Lake City for the world premiere of her newest picture which was filmed entirely entire-ly in Utah, in the Kanab section, Movie Star Evelyn Keyes visited this post. First actress to come to Kearns, she pronounced the life "rugged, but most memorable." Miss Keyes did KP, actually serving in one of the mess halls at which she called. She then took her place in the cafeteria line and ate with the privates. During the afternoon she faced a surprise gas attack while viewing view-ing obstacle course maneuvers, but with the coolness and poise of a seasoned segeant, she donned the mask which had been provided provid-ed and escaped unscathed. The band gave her a concert, and entering into the spirit of things, she borrowed the, drum major's baton and led several numbers. To climax ner tour, she performed per-formed a duty of all g"ood soldiers she visited her "buddies'' m the post hospital. "Your service club is marvelous," marvel-ous," she explaimed." "I'm almost al-most embarassed to say that it surpasses our Hollywood canteen, where I'm a captain." She wenti on to say that it was one of the finest and best equipped of any she has seen in her tour cf the country's camps. x Her opinion was shared by Miss Gail Gifford, Columbia Pictures Pic-tures publicity executive, who accompanied ac-companied her here. KEEP 'EM FLYING Three days after trainees here battered each other around in one of the roughest, toughest boxing exhibitions on record, they announced an-nounced another tourament Table tennis. KEEP 'EM. FLYING-- There are two Utahns in the Kearns band under the direction of a third. The two instrumentalists are Pfc. Max Dalby of Ogden and Fvt. Elbert Gardner of Levan. Their leader is Master Sgt. Hans Heniot, former conductor of the Utah Symphony. Dalby plays a clarinet and is frequently featured 3oloist on the band's Wednesday night broadcasts. broad-casts. He played under Heniot in the symphony too, after graduating graduat-ing from BYU in 1942. His father, Mr. Cleon Dalby, is principal of the State Industrial School in Ogden and his mother is girls matron at the school. For two years Gardner sponsored spon-sored an all-state baseball tournament tourn-ament in Levan and was prominent promin-ent in recreational work in that erea. On the side he was a talented talent-ed musician. Now the army has utilized his musical abilities and he plays the mellophone in the band. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, Gardner lives in Levan. |