Smyrna times., 1943-07-15

l. IL IL
Brown is Just like he appears in the
movies, mouth and all. Looks like
a cellar door when his mouth is
open.
When we cleared away the tables
and set up our chairs, facing the
stage, the real show started. First
came Joe Jackson, who is with the
Ice-Capades. He put on his fam
Gus act, which is that. of a Clown
Tramp. 1 got a big kick out of
this, because Fem Leach, the fell
low 1 went with, used to be chorus
boy with the Billy Rose show. He
used to work with Joe Jackson, Sr.,
who used the same act. saw
Leach's scrap-book of this. When
Joe Jackson, Sr., died, then his
young son Joe took over his faith
er's act and went with the Ice
Capades. From what Leach said,
it would be hard to tell the father
or son apart, since their acting is
so nearly alike. Next came little
Trixie from the Ice-Capades who
did some of the cleverest juggling
I've ever seen. Fem also had
worked with her. He has shown
me pictures of Trixie and the same
act. Fem Leach had quite time
seeing these folks all over again,
since it was a total surprise to him
that they would be at the club.
This was followed by Sid Saylor
and Harry Seymour. They are the
fellows who helped to make the
ministries famous. And for that
matter are still working to bring
them back. Next on the program
came Charles Judels, and following
him a play called, THE WARD
EMS ORDERS" After the play
came something that really made
all of us enjoy ourselves-Eddie
Cantor-he surely is some guy
eyes and all. With him were Ed
gar "Cooky' Fairchild at the piano,
and Ginny Simms singing. She
sang several songs and the fellows
kept hollering when she was finish
ed, so she'd have to sing more. In
all she sang about six times. Eddie
Cantor told jokes and sang a num-
ber of songs. Every time he'd get
ready to go off the stage the fell
lows would yell as loud as they
could for him to come back. Eddie
Cantor was very obliging finally
had everybody singing with him.
Later he sang several songs and
rolled his eyes around before finally
leaving. Eddie said he didn't mind
staying-nowhere's to go but home,
and his wife would only raise cain,
so he might as well remain. After
this remark was passed we all
spotted his family seated in back
of us. Following Eddie Cantor was
Rufe Davis, who sang Hillbilly
songs. He was also a comedian.
Following this was another short
play, and after that came Peter
Godfrey, magician and his assist
ant Renee HAL, the Coca Cola girl.
They surely put on good show.
Louis DaPron was to have been
there but something happened and
he did not arrive. After the enter
tainment was over we stayed and
talked with the different actors and
actresses for some time. Finally
we left the club to go to bed.
AS we departed we were ali Civ
en- tickets which allowed us to sleer
in dormitory opeated by church
down the street. By this time il
was getting pretty late in the
morning, but since so many of the
fellows had never been to Holly
wood before, we fell in and march
ed all over town, showing the new
arrivals the different clubs, Radio
Stations, Movie Studios, etc. Abou
two hours later we went to bed. w,
awakened Sunday morning abou
seven o'clock-after having jus
about three hours sleep. We clean
ed up the dormitory and marched
back to the Masquers Club fo
breakfast at eight. About ten
thirty o'clock we thanked all tn.
actors for the very good time which
they had shown us, and left fo
Palm Springs.
This time, the State Highwa,
Patrol escorted us all the way bacl
as far as Riverside. On the wa,
back we stopped at an ordinanc,
camp at Santa Nita Race Tracl
for gas. We were allowed to leav,
the trucks in the convoy for half
hour. Some of the boys headed fo
the PX's. Fem, Sullivan and
headed for the grandstand at thu
race track. 1t was quite some dis
tance away on the other side of th
Camp. A distance of about on,
and a half miles. We managed t,
get a fellow who was driving ,
jeep, to run us down and see it
The grandstand is certainly a hug,
place, and as beautiful as L don
know what-both inside and out