Army-Navy Screen Magazine: Blanc, Mel

e [Music] if you've ever been to Hollywood one thing you're sure to remember is this converted Barn in the Heart of the City here under the leadership of Betty Davis and John Garfield all the guilds and unions in Hollywood have collaborated in creating and maintaining the Hollywood canteen more than a million servicemen of the United Nations have been entertained here by almost everybody in Motion Pictures most of its earlier guests are scattered all over the world by now in the South Pacific the uans the Middle East etto Italy well let it go at all around the world and to them here's a message from one of the canteen favorites Miss Dina Shore hello fellas we had some guests of honor here the other night convalescent men from an Army hospital and they seem so darn glad to see the canteen again that we thought maybe you'd like to take a look especially you fellas who are so far away from home so let's let's look around you be our honored guest tonight okay you're greeted at the door by Lana Turner Dianna Durban and Marina dietr and you grab yourself a partner for some music by Xavier [Music] cougar probably you'll find judge and Mrs Hardy behind the snack bar leis Stone and F Holden with Jenny Sims and Virginia W on stage a song from Eddie can a own tonight we snug as can be being alone is just a blind you know her coffee could be sweeter but I'm not in the dumps cuz every time she hugs me it's like two extra lumps we're staying home tonight my baby while Hy Lamar hands out autograph or some rough house with red skeletons no upsetting the nerves no bad taste just a nice smooth drink pour a little in your glass and drink it right down but be sure and ask for guzzler Jin a nice smooth drink [Music] drink a little after dinner drink some before you won't have to eat any dinner our more rough house with Jimmy [Music] Durant what a racket he's got with that stick that's a politician's job I wonder what he do with the Stick of the band didn't show up fellas many people from Hollywood are visiting the men at the front but it isn't possible for all of the to get over there at once so tonight I'd like to dedicate a song to some men who are fighting and sweating this war the hard way the men of the China Burma India theater of operations here's some special lyrics to one of your favorite Melodies I'm singing this straight to you guys of CV day we think of you all you mighty men who serve the red white and blue whe near to us please believe no matter where you are we think of you Night and Day Day and Night surely you know that this feeling for you follows wherever you go from the desert burning sand to the Frozen cold of Norther lands we think of you night and day night and day we say a prayer for you and we're praying that heaven above will watch you and care for you and when this affair is may we not forget the death that we are to you day and night night and [Music] day it was a great day in San Francisco whistles blowing bands play saying people waiting waiting for their ship to come in on this ship more people waiting for a sight they thought they'd never see here's one of them Corporal Alfred Jolly US Army Medical Corps when he first saw Frisco he was excited and he had a right to be but let him tell you that's right that's me up there in the picture only look we don't call it Frisco it's San Francisco and it's home boy oh boy after 3 years in the [ __ ] prison camp home sure looks good and in a way it looks different all those warships planes going places and that must be a new Shipyard yeah when we pulled into San Francisco Bay there was plenty to shout about and there was plenty of shouting cheering but it takes more than that to get the Japs out of your system and I couldn't help thinking of a different thing 3 years before there was shouting and cheering there too but in a different [Music] language it was April 42 and the Japs were mopping up on batan they had it all over us in arms and numbers they kept pounding with everything they had their planes were always overhead then one day when I was out on an ambulance detail [ __ ] dive bombers went after the ammunition truck nearest it exploded Skyhigh When the Smoke cleared no more ambulance for us no more left arm for Jolly 3 days later they had batan and I was a prisoner in the old bbid jail in Manila from there we saw the jeps punishing cargador they got ready to take the [Music] Rock and they took it on May 642 General Jonathan way wght skinny we call him was forced to surrender our flag came down the [ __ ] flag went up the Japs made propaganda movies of their Victory to show the folks back in Tokyo what they'd won another present for hero hito ruined batteries a handful of sick Americans and they showed how well they treated us clean beds and care for the sick plenty of food fresh air all this make believe for the world world to see there were a lot of things they didn't tell about things that were not for the world to see this was two days after General way wri's surrender this was 12,000 Americans many of them my buddies jammed into the Kinley field garage area one water spet for all 12,000 and no food for 7 Days in Manila the Japs celebrated all day long they held a March of victory and only 100 odd miles away at the marvillous airfield on baton men we knew were hurted together to start another March a March of death hungry thirsty Filipinos and Americans most of them too sick to stand began the 7-Day hike to San Fernando I was lucky I wasn't on that March but my best friends were and what they went through wasn't pretty the Japs kept spitting in their faces kicking their groins horse whipping them burying some of them alive these enemy pictures don't show the [ __ ] soldiers beating and bayonetting they don't show the [ __ ] tanks and trucks running down and crushing dog tired Americans but some survived I met them after I was transferred to cabanatan we lived for almost 3 years at cabanatan and it was lousy at first we tried to live like humans we cared for each other while the was medicine we took vitamin pills while they lasted we tried to look our Sunday Best But things kept getting worse and after a couple of years just keeping alive was tough we lived on rice for breakfast rice for lunch rice and water for dinner I lost 93 lbs what made us hungrier was the way they worked us we pumped their Waters we did their labor we didn't know what was going on in the outside world I wrote dozens of cards like this to mother she got nine in three years I only got five of hers we began to give up hope when I left San Francisco there wasn't much of an American Army and even less of what an army needs now the Japs kept showing us their propaganda movies proving to us they had the world we saw a newsreel on how they took the Philippines we saw another on how they landed in the [Music] uans we saw their strength for all we knew they might be sitting in California in Colorado then one day we saw planes American planes back over the [Music] Philippines after that the Japs made it tougher than ever for us and then MacArthur and his men were back we began to Hope again some of us prayed we didn't know that already Rangers and Filipino gorillas were on their way then they came they got us away regular cowboy and Indian stuff they piled us into trucks first stop was a 92nd evacuation hospital that's me right there the second stop was cha the third stop what the well-dressed GI will wear and then the last stop home things started popping all at once wax came alongside the first I'd ever seen they passed out mail and there was a special letter a greeting from our commander and chief that made it official the men wrote wires telling when they'd get home how we waited for that gang plank to go [Music] down funny the way we worried back in the prison camp if anyone was remembering us there was someone for everyone that's Gaston and his wife he was our first sergeant in the prison then well that's me and my mom it was a big day in San Francisco even the kids out the cheer and wave I wave right back they look swell there was one detour the hospital after that there were a lot of things I wanted to do right away I wanted to walk down Market Street again and I did I wanted to take a good look at the old high school and I did back home I wanted to hit the sack without a worry and I did and mom wanted something too she wanted to show me the Scrapbook she had kept since ID left for the Philippines she had put in just about everything that mentioned me or my outfit there was one clipping I liked best and I'll remember it longest because for me and for the rest of us this meant [Music] Freedom hi fellas well here we go again with our first request coming from private Anthony Luca 670th topographical company somewhere in the Southwest Pacific private lucer rides nearly two years ago I closed my business establishment Tracy bowling alleys Tracy Boulevard Wallingford Connecticut and entered the service my son was 3 years old then the picture I'm most anxious to see is my son rolling a ball down the alley that sign should look familiar private lcer and so should these citizens of w for going through your front door and here's a very special citizen private your wife who asked us to tell you that business is fine she's made a lot of improvements in the alley since you left your son Bob said you wouldn't recognize it he told us he's grown almost 2 in and has gained seven [Music] PBS looks pretty good doesn't he he still can't hold the ball in one hand like his dad but the pins go down just the [Music] same Bob wanted to know if there are any alleys where you are he says he's keeping in practice so he can take you on when you come home so get set for that championship match private looker P5 George Jenkins somewhere in Italy says he's heard about the cigarette shortage back home and wants to know what the folks are doing for smokes one of the things they're doing Corporal Jenkins is going without with most of the shells throughout the country as bare as mother [Music] hubard there are half a dozen reasons poor tobacco crops man polish shortages more American smoking than ever before standard brands are scarce so all people when they can get them settle for anything from Turkish tobacco to cigarettes that taste like a mixture of corn silk and peanut shell or nowadays you may find a lady spending as much time choosing a Brier or a corn cob as she used to spend picking a new hat now here's another solution for those who must get their daily quarter of nicotine it's all very simple you just take a 5-cent package of good old Bull Durham a thin piece of paper carefully held in the right hand and then with a little care oh mam that's no place to keep the back [Music] ho five di somewhere in Belgium say they've seen hundreds of beautiful pinup girls but think it's a shame that the queen of them all is has been forgotten to quote how about flashing that grand old lady of Freedom across the screen the Statue of Liberty there's the lady you want to see private's wife pierelli sirak Thea and Santa she's still there in the harbor still carrying the torch for you and the millions of others she sent overseas to do a job lately she's been DED up a bit and given a whole new system of flood lights but they don't go on until the day Germany and Japan surrender until then she thanks with quiet Pride those who gave their lives so that the Liberty she symbolizes for all Americans [Music] m mother says it's in the groove daddy says it's hot backwards it's spell Zabo now Brethren what have you got you've got Jubilee an avalanche of fan mail from all fronts and outpost testifies to the popularity of Jubilee this 30-minute radio show is one of 106 recorded programs shipped overseas each week by the Armed Forces Radio Service from headquarters at Los Angeles you sad sacks in your khaky kils and you swingy salts on your PE scooters baton down your GI pork pies and now here's your Master of Ceremonies Jubilee sweater boy Ernie bubbles Quitman thank you thank you thank you devotes of the limp logo with your permission I'd like to do a few imitations first as a familiar fellow we've all seen standing at track number five just before the 20th century pulled out of Chicago for New York and he goes something like [Music] this train leaving for South B Syracuse Rochester coming [Music] mother well bless my big fat soul how are you right fine Ernie but I have a little problem I brought a chick with me tonight and I wonder if I wonder if you could help me out well I'll be glad to take off your hand son just a minute big boy that's not my problem Oh what I want to know is should I bring her into the studio and take a chance on losen her or leave her out in the hall and likewise well then by all means bring this girl in okay come on in Honey fellas here's Lena horn how about us telling everybody about consequences okay he it [Music] boys Lives full of consequence That Old Devil consequence he takes all the Rival out of fun when you got the candle lit at both ends the Scandal it creates always keeps you on the road just when you weaken in fate sends the Deacon in Crash and your B ain't worth an oun cause then comes the consequence That Old Devil consequence brings you back with a bounds it's consequenes what [Music] count life full of consequence but who's scared of consequence let's sip the honey while it's sweet we could be messing around but you is digressing round while I'm tossing nature at your feet why don't we Moy around you could be Co around a girl who could sprinkle you with SP but how about the consequence that old consequence i' been more [Music] thank you thank you Roa and thank you Lea horn and now men here comes a hunk of hot R out of Hallelujah Heaven private bab Wallace and Timmy Rogers Well boys what is this mess all about well it all happened tonight Timmy and I received a letter yeah a letter the contents of which were most serious well I tell me was it a love letter not exactly it was a letter written by a group of our neighbors when they discovered that we were between the ages of 18 and 38 oh she a group of neighbors he used the word Loosely well you see iy it was a sort of a melody in 1A this is is what we sat down and wrote try it out Timmy okay ja I got my greetings the other day and I started to run the other way that would be wrong even you will agree but here's what Uncle Sam had to say to me bring enough clothes for 3 Days bring enough clothes for 3 Days bring enough clothes for 3 days cuz they ain't going to Turn You Loose bringing enough clothes for 3 Days 50 a month is all in P bringing enough clothes for 3 days and don't bring no sad excuse you got to realize you a soldier now if you don't realize you're a soldier anyhow that little mess is up to you brother there's nothing that you can do but hanging a clo for 3 days you've got a chance to get a ra but bring enough clothes for 3 Days CU they ain't going to tell when you lose now they may take your brother your sister and your mother your uncle nieces and cous Jack they snatching them by the D bringing up clothes days bringing up clothes days but bring up CL days going turn you thank you boys thank you that was smooth as a skin on a mellow molecule fellas no Jubilee would be complete without batting a breeze without that Horn of Plenty Lena with nothing could be fena FR his piece size toward the kilo Cycles Lena you know fellas we here on Jubilee use the language that might sound off the cuff to some of you when we dedicate a number to say U sad sad Jack from fond deac a latch on Jack and a khaki sack Ro we say it that way because well I guess because we feel it's a little more personal we send our Hells and our songs and our laughter yes in our hearts clear around the world to you wherever you happen to be then we say to ourselves we know by your letters that in your spare time lots of those same fellas hear our jokes and our music and that makes us try all the harder to send you week after week the kind of entertainment that you used to look for back home so keep letting us know what it is this is your [Music] program somay he'll come along the man I love he'll be big and strong the man are alone and when he comes my way I'll do my best to make him [Music] stay he look at me and smile I'll understand and then in a little while he take my hand and though it seems absurd I know we both won't say a [Music] word maybe I shall meet him Sunday maybe Monday maybe not still I'm sure to meet him one day maybe tues will be my good news day he build a little home just meant for two from I never you and all else I'm waiting for the man [Music] [Applause] I I just learned a secret it's a honey it's a pip but the enemy is listening so I'll never let it slip cuz when I learn a secret boy I shipper up my lip now the military secret that I carry in my brain I keep in safe depart with a pan locking chain you bet I got a secret oh I bet we find it out the so's got a secret but I bet we find it out hello Ma I got a secret I can only drop a tip don't bre a word to no one but I'm going on a trip shh don't plead avert to no one but he's going on a trip hey give me some magazines to read for when I'm on the ship don't ple Aver to no one but he's going to go by ship it's a s to keep a secret if a fella just takes care he's sailing on a toop ship now we got to find out there I'm a sound and Silent Soldier just as steady as a rock here's to my little secret with its chain and Pad [Music] loock hello baby hi [ __ ] say you're a lify trick I hope I meet some babes in Africa as kid As You Are [Music] this message is important I must fly a double trick it's been a wonderful evening and I'd like to stay some more but I got to get a move on now I sail at half [Music] 4 he's got to get a move on now he sails at half 4 hey that's troop she B for Africa pulled out at half past four calling all wolf back calling all wolf back the transport ship for AF pull down at half [Music] far Speed Ahead [Music] now who in hell do you suppose it was that let my secret out what was that I heard you say my little sour cout he wonders who in hell it was that let his take it [Music] out London is doomed said Dr Gobles and Adolf Hitler's intuitive propaganda experts claimed that in its first few days of attack last June V1 the flying bomb the robot bomb the buzz bomb had almost entirely removed the city of London from the war scarred face of the Earth yes once again the great patient enduring city of London was suffering find yourself as V1 might have found you coming at you from dawn to dusk Dusk to Dawn [Music] you're a passenger on a cross town bus this is the end of your last ride you're a kid in school this is your lesson for today you're an Airman on leave and this is your welcome Matt you're a diner in a restaurant this is where you have your last bite you're a patient in a hospital this is your final [Music] treatment you're a worshipper in church this is where you kneeled and never got up [Music] again yes London was suffering under V1 suffering but alive 23,000 buildings utterly destroyed 1 million damaged over 5,000 lives lost over 16,000 broken but London worked you're a member of a heavy Rescue Squad and you dig with your hands to save a life you're an attendant in a first aid station and you haven't slept in 3 days you're a GP and you break Patrol to help the London Bobby you're the man on the street and you do what you can [Music] London suffered but London worked and London fought you're part of the proove an aak battery on the south coast and you can't close your eyes the 80 Days of the V1 you bring down countless bombs with a you work hard down on the south coast in the white sun and gray mist and in the nervous night you're a member of a barrage balloon unit in the 80 days you'll bring down nearly 300 with only steel cables stretched in the sky you're a pilot of ATT Tempest to a Mustang or new types spit fire sweeping through space and you bring down nearly 2,000 pilotless bombs in the 80 days and it isn't easy gu you fight back and you bring them down in the thousands but some get through to the Villages and towns of England and some get through to London their numbers are also in the thousands than come groaning and spitting and roaring and you don't know when they'll suddenly stop and drop on you you're a farm laborer it's like sitting in a dentist's chair when they come over only worse you're a hairdresser in for a swim on Sunday afternoon it's like seeing snakes if you don't like snakes make worse you're a citizen of Southern England and it's a matter of life and death your life your death you're a roof sputter or any kind of sputter all you can do is watch out for them and pray the Germans had hoped to win a compromised peace out of the bombardment of London they had hoped that the new trial of The Battered Capital would finally break the will of the English people they broke British homes churches schools buddies but the will to fight grew stronger longer than ever on a bright Sunday morning in June a buzz bomb hit the chapel near the London Barracks of a famous Regiment of the British Army in that Chapel were wives and Children of the men who were fighting that morning outside Khan after that those men fought with merciless ferocity the Germans in Normandy paid for the blind savagery of their [Music] masters the British have not been the only ones to suffer under the new weapons in the Nazi Arsenal Americans were killed by the side of their allies American wax serving in London died on this new random Battlefield later on the continent the Germans gave us a preview of the wars of the future by as Sing Us in Luxembourg and Belgium with the sputtering robot bomb imagine the wars of the future look at this wreckage and see New York in the next War Washington San Francisco Milwaukee Dallas imagine the bar reaching weapons of 1960 1970 continents would war against continents across great oceans buttons would be pressed the cities would crumble half the world away it would be a war of wizards no one anywhere would be out of the front lines your children would live on the edge of a Perpetual Seno a constant teraa that is if you don't stop it you have bled for the people of London and they have bled for you that goes for the people of Stalingrad the people of Manila the people of Athens Paris and Chun King if you remember that if you remember that you don't want that bleeding for yourselves and for them to continue forever if you remember that you want a peace that no monstrous inventions no Violent Men can ever destroy if you remember all that and devote yourself to it as you're devoting yourself to winning this war your children and your children's children will never stand like this on American soil looking up at the rubble of their homes [Music] [Applause] [Music] Command Performance USA the greatest entertainers in America is requested by you the fighting men of the United States armed forces throughout the world this weekly radio program is governed by your letters Joel Jeep commands and award Department of bay anything from a song by Judy Garland to the sizzling sound of a Sirin State as this program is being performed in a Hollywood studio a master recording is made from which transcripts will be shipped to Army and government operated stations all over the world strictly for you men overseas no matter how small your outfit and speaking of little things and trivia in general here's old general trivia in person your commanding officer of this Command Performance your old sidekick and chief Scout of the wolf patrol Bob [Music] [Applause] H thank you very much thank you how do you do fellas this is Bob this is Bob Command Performance hope telling each napsi that's in Russia Today that primia doesn't pay I'm now getting my material from HB Colton born well I'm a little tired t i I just got back from Camp Roberts drove down 200 mil in the Jeep tomorrow I get the order of the purple callous but I had a swell time and I slept right in the barracks last night with the boys you know what Barracks are that's 2,000 cots separated by individual crap games but anyway let's hit the harmony tril to all APO and fpo numbers for fet Alie and dly and for all of you everywhere the girl who can diffuse a blockbuster with one kiss miss bet hot thank you thank you hi you fellas hello Bob well hi you Betty and say I want to congratulate you on your big hit in our new picture it's nice to see a youngster coming up it's nice to see an oldster holding his own well that's fine and now Betty is one of the three flying huttons will you answer a slew of Command Performance requests and straf us with that 50 caliber tune he says murder he [Music] says finally found the fella almost completely [Music] Divine but his vocabulary is killing this Romance of M we get into an intimate [Music] situation and then begins this Romeo's conversation he says Mur every time kisss Mur at a time Mur that the language of love he says s he says takes me me his arms and says says meaning all the charm he says Sol says is that the language of he says chick chick you torture me zo are we living I'm thinking of leaving him flat he says dig dig the jump the old ticker is giv now he can talker than that he says murder he says every time we kiss he says murder he says keep it up like this and that Mur says in that Apostle will bring on no murder but his old he says Jackson he says andem my name Marine says Jackson he says shoot the Snoop to me says Jackson is that the language of love he he says when he likes my hat he says he says what the heck is that he says wooho he says he that the langage he with helium now babe we're cooking and all Expressions to it he says we're into groov and groov good looking he sounds like his upper Stone said he said murder Mur murder that I've told him over and over and over again that it'll be nobody else's murder is yes sir a vitamin pill with legs how about that thanks Betty Hutton and also the 370th Army Air Force Band of the San bernardina Air Service command while gang Command Performance has fill many in order for those sounds that remind you of home from the bleed of a billy goat to the Fizz of a bourbon and soda and now comes the ordinance gang at 863 with from Sarge ever hanky and Corporal Roland Lipton and this little Dilly this dear command in close please find peace off top of Stuka di bomber for which you will please have Lana Turner come out and Fry us a 3-in Porter House steak smother with onions and let's here it Sizzle just to prove there's no request two large fellas here she is Lana Turner hello fellas and hi Bob say have the FBI didn't found a steak yet yes it's backstage but L this is dangerous if this audience sees steak they'll come right up here after it oh I don't know they've seen ham all evening and you're still here right now I'm bacing L let's get out with this thing be a good girl and let's fry that steak huh okay bring on a Porter House steak well look they got an armed guard around the Stak oh look at this well all right Bob is your griddle heart yeah my I think oh my that's that'll do Bob now the Stak please oh well here it is fellas beautiful a Porter House steak 3 in thick the only one in captivity going to give that a hot foot into the frying fan oh no oh yes there you are fellas that's the sound of a steak sizzling fellas that's the steak that's not me sizzling that's the steak and fellas I wish I could cook a big steak for each and every one of you [Music] [Applause] but now for the whole a for the Army nurses and Red Cross girls civilian workers on the fighting fronts and for the 512 gang who signed themselves squarehead Bowski cyclop sink body Meeks Stuka Martin incendiary stazi wahi and Sad Sack Jack here's one of your alltime sweethearts another Command Performance for that lovely sweater girl Judy Garland thanks Bob hi fellas Sweater Girls Bob why are men so crazy about Sweater Girls I don't know Judy that's one mystery I'd like to unravel fellas one of your favorite combinations Judy gin singing Over the Rainbow [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Dre that you dare dream really do come true somay I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me where trbl melt like lemon drops above the chimney tops that's where you find me somewhere the [Music] L bir fly [Music] the rainbow why then oh [Music] why if happy little bluebirds fly the on the rainbow why oh why cank [Music] [Applause] thanks from America to all our men in blue our boys in khaki to our tough Marines our Coast Guard our Army Nurse is true we thank you so [Music] much and thanks to our brave allies the Gallant Russian Bear the British everywhere the free French and the Chinese and you Latin way down there we thank you so much fellas this doesn't rhyme but one of these days soon we'll be seeing you and meantime this is Bob Hope thanking you for those letters to Command Performance Armed Forces Radio Los Angeles USA speaking for everybody on Command Performance and saying the best of the bests in the USA [Music] [Applause] [Music] Shalom she's on her way man from us to you every week till it's over over [Applause] [Music] there for