The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-16
OF HOME TALENT
- STARS IN $50 VARIETY SHOW

chuca is coming in for its share
of entertainment these dayS-and
it isn't all coming from the outside;
much of i is ''home talent"
No snappier or star studded show
has ever played the Post than the
current Special Service variety show
featuring a 'groovey'' swing band
with Pvt. Orlando Robertson, ma
tionally famous lyric tenor, in the
vocalist spotlight The show is pop
ping with talent and the roster of
the band reads like an excerpt from
a who's Who" of name bands and
big theatricals in the land.
Macei Anderson, who earned his
dancing fame with the -Four Step
Brothers in New York Cit yand Los
Angeles, is producer of the show
in which several talented WAACs
are featured with galaxy of SOL
diers who are strictly ION the
beam" Anderson has appeared as
one of the Four Step Brothers in
the Abbott and Costello flicker, "It
Amt Hay" in Rhythm of the Is
lands" and Johnny Comes March
ing Home"
Movie Stars In Band
At the piano-in the band-is Ed
Gle Lee Myart, who was in the cast
OF Stormy Weather" and formerly
played withBardu Ais band, tne
Four Tones and Alton Redd's or
chestra in Los Angeles. Eugene
jackson, actor, singer, musician and
dancer par excellence, plays tenor
saxA former child star in Our Gand
Comedies" he will also be remem-
bered as "Chink a-pen' in Hearts
in Dixie" and for his outstanding
role with Richard Dix in "Cimar-
ron" He was the leader of his own
band which was playing in the Ha-
waiian Islands when Pearl Harbor
was bombed.
Drummer with the band is Pvt.
Edward "Sharkey" Hall. A lad who
can give out with the tympannic
rhythms, Hall has the added asset
Of pair of very agile dancing feet.
He is BrOoklynite, but came into
the Army by way of Pasadena where
he played with Al Adams, George
Brown, the Harlem Collegians and
other bands.
Former Hampton Man Here
Lionel Hampton's former guitar
ist, Irving c. Ashby, is also a mem
Der of the swing band Ashby, who
was inducted, from Los Angeles, is
a native of Boston and a graduate
of the Boston Conservatory of Mu-
sic His dignified. scholarly ap-
pearance earned him the title, PRO
fessor," with the Hampton outfit.
IN Los Angeles he had the distinc-
ton of being copyist and staff gui-
tarist for the Doth Century Fox
Studios.
Karl c. ''Hymie" George, who was
also with Lionel Hampton's band.
is first trumpeter with the Special
Service swing band. Previously he
played trumpet with Teddy Wilson
and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. He
is fro mLos Angeles by way of st.
Louis.
T/4th John r. Davis, also sax
player, is a graduate of Xavier uni
versity, and originally planned to
make the priesthood his career. Be-
fore coming into the Army he had
made quite a name for himself as
saxaphoniSt with several orcheS-
traS in his home town, Chicago. Pfc.
c. Wesley Prince of Pasadena and
Los Angeles, was with Lee Hite
when the Army called him. Before
joining the Hite aggregation he was
with Lionel Hampton's orchestra,
and before that with Buck Clayton
and the Fourteen Gentlemen of
Harlem. He organized the King Cole
band and played bass in it. He plays
bass horn and string bass with the
Post swing band.
Private Forrest Powell is also a
former member of Les Hites band.
One of the most recent additions to
the swing band, he plays the trum-
pet. He formerly played with eJan
Galloway and Alphonso Trent and
has made recordings for Zlue Bird
and Variety recording concerns. Well
known around Hollywood movie lots
he played in Going Places with
Dick Powell.
Pvt. Fred D. Doyle, formerly of
Chicago and Los Angeles, is another
new man in the swing band. A
guitarist and vocalist, Doyle has
played with all of the major bands
around the Angel City, including
Charles Echols and Ray Clark. He
u