Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday. August 5. 1943.
Off Duty
Guide
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SERVICE CLUBS
For Camp Adairmen
RECREATION
WEDDINGS
PARTIES
THEATERS
Floor Show Presented
By Girl Entertainers
Salem Ail-Girl Victory Revue
A girl revue from Salem, headed by Virginia Steed, pro
vided the Club 2 floor show last Saturday night.
Master of ceremonies was Pvt. Murphy, of the Sea Gulls.
♦With Jean Carken as his partner,
Pvt. Murphy started the show with
his ballroom interpretations of the
rhumba.
The second act was Margaret
Mullen and her smooth perform
Cpl. George Goebel, of the Tim ance at the piano of “Body and
ber Wolf quartermaster Bn., en Soul.” She was called back to
play two encores.
tertained at Club 2 last Sunday for
The “C-D-E trio” came out
, the full afternoon and evening decked in Hawaiian grass skirts
with his diversified piano playing. and leis to sing the “Hawaiian
The former star of Chicago night War Chant” and perform a hula
clubs has been absent from Camp dance. They too were called back
for the past month, but he cer to perform an encore, singing
tainly made up for lost time with “Song of the Islands.”
Sunday’s performance.
Cpl. Irving Sanders played sev
Requests from those present eral piano numbers, and Virginia
were cheerfully played, and in the Steed sang “You’ll Never Know."
evening the crowd joined in group
Helen Horner, Monmouth’s
singing.
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“
Blonde
Bombshell," displayed a
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wide
range
of talent when she went
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from a Spanish piano number to a
program of boogie-woogie music.
Sgt. Conrad Squires and Cpl.
Bournski concluded the show with
a clarinet and accordion «lumber.
A pick-up band from the Gey
At Club l’s informal hop last sers, with Cpl. Sanders at the
Thursday, music was provided by piano, provided the music for the
a “pick-up” group from the regu evening’s dancing.
lar SCU band.
The musicians just casually
One Arm Driving Easier
I drop over, out of pure goodness of .
hear t, to play for the dancers. A •
Marion, Va. (CNS)—The Office
couple will «tart out, but before the of Price Administration’s pleasure
evening is over, there is apt to be
driving ban hasn't stopped one ro
an orchestra of 10 or more pieces mantically - inclined young local
going full blast. It is n£ver unlike resident. When his gasoline was
ly that the night will end with a exhausted, he pushed his car to a
hot jam session going on.
street curb and left it there. Since
Pfc. Shepherd and Cpl. Don 1 then he and his girl come out each
Johnson, both of SCU, sang sever night and sit in the car. “It’s pleas
al solos with the band last Thurs ure,” he says, “even if it isn’t pleas-
day night.
‘ ure driving.”
CpI. Goebel Sets
Endurance Record
THE ENTIRE CAST of the Salem All-Girl Victory Revue, which is enjoying ever-increasing
popularity among the Adairmen. is shown as an ensemble above. In the usual order: Pearl Crockett.
Lorna Arnold. Dorothy Ann Hobson. Mary Reimann. Glennis Allen. Geraldine Des Georges. Lois
Schrenk. Jean Sechrist. Dorothy Bergsvik. Bernice Isham. Connie Keller. Rosemary Gaiser. Joan
TwedJ. Jewell Gueffroy, /id Arleen Frogley. In the front, doing one of her famous splits, is the cham
pion drum majorette of the Willamette Valley. Betty Pierce. The revue which was featured at the
Albany USO last Saturday night, and which has appeared in the past at a Club 1 cabaret, is scheduled
for this Saturday as the main attraction of the Club 2 floor show.—Signal Corps Photo.
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'The Vinegar Tree
Packs Service Club
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Hailed as 'Finest Entertainment
Ever Brought to Camp Adair'
Hailed by the men of Camp been “married too much,” was
Adair as “the finest type of enter well cast as the seductive infatua
tainment ever brought to Camp,*" tion of Bill Callahan, the love-sick
the intimate comedy. “The Vine calf.
gar Tree." was presented in “pent
Horace W. Robinson, the director,
house style" at Club 2 last Wed acted the matter-of-fact artist
nesday by the University Summer ably. Mary A Lawson, the cute
Theatre of Eugene, under the di little maid, provoked much ap
rection of Horace W. Robinson.
plause and rabid whistling from
The club was crowded to the Adairmen as she tidied up the room
rafters for the single presentation, between acts.
and not even standin £ room was
Robert A. Quigley was the re
available. The audience was so maining character in the cast, a
enthusiastic after the final curtain preudo-sophisticated young modern,
that it would not leave the club, who tried to switch lovers while
continually calling the actors back figuratively “crossing the stream.”
to take curtain calls.
The three-act play was present
The fast and breezy lines and ed before Major General John E.
the sophisticated drawing room Dahlquist, Brigadier General Rol
conversation of the vehicle, com and P. Shugg and other officers
bined with fine casting and no i of the 70th division, who visited
over-acting, left nothing to be de the club to see the type of enter-
sired of the performance.
tainment being offered the men.
Robert Earl, as the blustery but They, too, were immensely pleased
sympathetic father and husband, with the show.
played his role excellently oppo-
she Gerda Brown, who portrayed
the flighty mother and wife who
complained of being “married too
little."
Florence Shumaker, who had
Ricardo Cortez,
The Californian/
Week's Old-Timer
'Love Rides the Rails'
3-Act Mellerdrammer
Coming Sunday Night;
Villain, Hero, et al
Following the tremendous suc
cess of “The Vinegar Tree" ias!
Wedne-'day, Club 2. is offering a
burlesque melodrama of the gay
’90s this Sunday night at 8 o’clock.
“Love Rides the Rails, or Will
the Mail Train Run Tonight” is the
title of this farce, which comes
complete with villain, hero, gal
and mortgage«.
The three-act play has a cast of
25, including stooge« in the au
dience. It is done in costume. Pro
duced by the Little Theater Guild
of Eugene, all props will be
brought to Camp, and it will be
performed on the stage of Club 2.
It i* advmaHe to come early for
no »eats will be reserved.
The old-time movie that is going
to appear at the service clubs over
the weekend is “The Californian,”
starring Ricardo Cortez and fea
turing Marjorie Weaver.
Cortez plays the caballero ban
dit who leaves behind a taunting
laugh on his daring raids made in
an effort to save his people from
the gold-maddened American for
ty-niners. This gay adventurer wa«
called the “Robin Hood of the Old
West."
Sunday night at Club 1 at 8 p.m.
and Monday night, at the same
time, at Club 2 is the schedule for
the showing of “The Californian.”
DAUGHTER BORN
Sgt. and Mrs. Jesse Wright of
Albany announce the birth of a
seven-pound daughter, last Tues
day in the Albany hospital.
Sgt. Wright is with Headquar
ters Company, SCU 1911, and
heads Return» Section of Post
Headquarters.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
A surprise birthday party was
given for Mrs. Margaret Blod
gett, director of Club 1, on the
occasion of her birthday last
Sunday in the Club 1 cafeteria.
Arranged by Miss Ann Caddy,
social and recreational hostess
of the Club, guests included
Miss Helen Barrett, cafeteria
hostess; Mrs. Bessie Barrett;
Miss Doris Fickel. club librar
ian; and Cpl. Rudi Jacobi.
Meisinger Girls
Put on 30-Minute
Club Floor Show
'Pick-Up' Group
At Thursday Hop
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The Meisinger accordion quin
tette from Salem put on a polished
39-minute show Saturday night at
Club 1.
The group, consisting of Pat
Meisinger, Lois Gillings, Peggy
Frantz, Florence Polster and Ann
Doerfler. did various military for
mations, crisE-crossing the dance
floor as they playetf on their ac I
cordions.
Pat Meisinger did several solos,
of which the most outstanding was
her own arrangement of “Dinah.”
A lot of old favorite tunes were
played, and the audience joined in
singing.
Miss Ann Caddy, social and rec
reational hostess of Club 1, acted
as mistress of ceremonies for the
• show.
SCU Band Brings
Life To Roseburg;
Nick, Click Star i
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The SCU dance band, augmented
by Sgt. Nick Sansonia and Pvt. Al- I
bert Clark, traveled to Roseburg.
Oregon, last Monday, under the
auspices of the Roseburg Aircraft
Warning Service, to put on a dance
and show for 50 Air Corps enlisted
men isolated in that town.
As is becoming almost tradition
al. the band and the performers
were a tremendous success.
The reports of “Nick" and “Click”
SCU Headquarters Co. lovers non
pared, ire that Roseburg is the ‘
“Valhalla" of Oregon. “The women
outnumber the men 30 to 1,” they ,
claim.
When one of Roseburg’s young
ladies was asked what was done
about such a sad situation, she re- I
marked stoicly, “We do without.”
How long are the Adairmen go- i
¡ng to let this state of affairs con ’
tinue?
SERVICEMEN'S DATE BOOK
TODAY, August 5 . . .
Informal dancing at Club 1. Girls from the Post are invited.
Bingo party at Club 2. prizes.
Singing and games in lounge, 7:00 p.m., at Station Hospital.
FRIDAY, August 6 . . .
field House Dance. 8:00-10:30. Lots of junior hostesses
for dancing partners. Good time to get jourself a date
for Saturday’s cabarets.
Recordings at Club 1 and Club 2.
Movie for patients in Red Cross auditorium at 6:30, “Hit
Parade of 1943.”
SATURDAY. August 7 . . .
Cabaret night at both service clubs. Salem All-Girl Vic
tory Revue at ( luh 2; floor show at Club 1. Bring your
date or your wife. Make reservations Saturday morning,
At the Station Hospital, party for patients in auditorium,
6:30 p.m.
SI NDAY, August 8 . . .
Old-time movie at Club 1, 8:00 p.m.. “Th< Caiifornian."
Recordings and group singing, Club 2.
Games in auditorium at Hospital i. in afternoon. Hymn sing
at 7:00 p.m. in lounge.
MONDAY. August 9 . . .
The Californian,” old-time movie, Club 2.
Informal activities at Club 1.
Record-cutting for patients in Red Cross Building.
TUESDAY, August 10 . . .
Bingo party at Club 1.
Informal dance at Club 2. Girls from Post invited.
Model in Art Workshop in Club 1 (on balcony), 8:00 p. m.
Moye for patients at 6:30 in Red Cross auditorium, ‘King
of the Cowboys,” and “Gray, White and Blue.”
WEDNESDAY. August 11 . . ,
Quiz contest in Club 1.
Song fest in Club 2.
R pun1nLttlng' game<> and muMic “ loun*e of
Crus*