The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1944 Page: 2 of 8
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The Camp Wolters Longhorn
‘Shell Show’ Bills Camp Wolters
For TwoDay Stand Nov. 17 and 18
Friday, November 17, 1944
“Now you see him, now you don’t”—the Miacos pose, with
bunny, for the photographer. You’ll see them in the Shell
Show plavinir at Theater 1, T'30 and 9.*15 P..M. N«v 17-18
f rettymg up before the show are Yvonne Adair, singer
and Jerry Miaco of the Miaco magic team. These girls,
along with a number of other top notch performers, are
members of the cast of the Shell Show which plays Camp
Wolters Nov. 17 and 18.
Radi®, Screen
And Bro^dwoy
T@ Entertain
The Shell Show, with per-
formers from almost every
branch of the entertainment
field, will be presented at 7:30
and 9:15 PM at Theater 1, Nov
17-18.
Sponsored by the Shell Oil
Company on a nan-commercial
basis, this revue stars enter-
tainers from radio, Broadway
night clubs, musical comedy,
and the screen.
Yvonne Adair, songstress,
has appeared in night clubs in
Miami, Palm Beach, and New
York. Just before joining the
Shell Show, she was the featur-
ed vocalist at Leon and Eddie’s
in New York.
Miaco, whose magic act is
said to be rated by top the-
atrical publications as among
0 best in me country,
h'CSes -audiences with his
? Mghtrof-hand.
: atiicia Rockwell, mistress of
■yemenies, doubles as a singer
Y songs—sweet and hot.
-•ili Raye, who has appeared
| in many theaters and night
. c.ubs, tripple4taps in modern
dance routines.
• Dr. Picard, zany xylophon-
ist and “lecturer on classical
music,” gives with a comedy
act on his xylophone. He is
a trouper of 20 years ex-
perience.
Lew Folds opens the show
with a fast and skillful comedy
juggling act.
Music for the show is under
the direction of Bill ©avis,
who has the unique ability to
organize quickly a band from
among the personnel of the
camp where the show is play-
ing and making the unit an
integral part of the show.
And it’s free!
Gl Talenls Pooled at Camp Wolters Zimmerman Family
To Produce Inlra-Camp Slap Stews 'Even Steven' How
i Camp shows here at Wolters are in a state of
epidemic. Every battalion is in the throes of stage
production, and trainees are reaping a windfall of fun
an mat intangible business called “morale.”
Already several shows have
A close up of the British Second Army drive in Holland—
a part of what appears to he an alLout Allied offensive on
Hitler’s Reich.
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,.The people of the United States paused a moment
to honor the dead of the war to end all wars Saturday
and stood on street corners to watch Armistice Day
re1 shed . the “touring” stage,
with added portions of Wac
highlights. It all began about
six month:; rgo when Cpl. Frank
Map son Lagan experimenting
with battalion talent in the 52nd
Battalion. Other battalions had
presented shows regularly be-
fore that, but Frank and sev-
eral cohorts hit on the idea of
touring a _ circuit of battalion
theaters with their productions.
The ever available “aid” of
Cpl. Hqnri Davidson was enlist-
ed along with that of several
Wacs. Soon enough the pro-
duction was aborning, with cer-
tain inalienable pains of birth.
The production was tagged “A
Wac Takes a Chance.”
Since then, Pvt. Marcia Lam-
pert, Lexington, Ky., wandered
upon the scene as entertainment
director for Special Services,
and the shows have been hot
and many ever since.
Most ambitious of the intra-
camp shows here is the “GI-
Wac Revue,” which features
several Wacs in song and
dance along with the inanities
and comedy of certain char-
acters of the Wolters stage.
Most of the battalions have
produced local shows, notably
the 62nd Battalion, with its
“Stunt Night” deal, and the
56th with variety shows. Sgt.
Hal Green, of New York, 56th
Bn. entertainment director, has
developed the “Package Show”
idea whereby he packs up his
men and gags and presents it at
the drop of a request.
And now comes a trainee-
director in the person of Pvt.
Hy Parness, New York City, Co.
B, 58th Bn., who already has
produced four shows in that
battalion. His shows are strict-
ly variety, with bits of music
and GI comedy.
Pvt. Parness starred in four
New York shows as a juvenile
comedy personality prior to
coming to Camp Wolters. He
played a comic character in
the Shakespeare “Taming of
the Shrew” in New York, and
was starred in several radio
programs. Among the radio
Army To Sell
Surplus Cars
Plans for immediate -disposal
through regular sales channels |
of 30,000 assorted surplus'Army
vehicles were announced by the
Treasury Department Of ice of
Surplus Property. «,
The lot consists of approxi-
mately 2,000 passeng’er cars,
9,000 motorcycles and 19,000
trucks, including command cars
(trucks), pickup trucks, weapon
carriers, dump and cargo, sta-
tion wagons and ambulances.
Lee W. Morgan, director of
the office’s automotive division,
said essential users such as
farmers, produce haulers and
others who need the used ve-
hicles should apply to their
county AAA farm transporta-
tion committee, or regional of-
fices of the War Production
Board, Petroleum Administrator
for War, or the Office of De-
fense Transportation which are
authoi'ized to issue certificates
up to the number of vehicles
available.
Sales must be negotiated
through dealers, the depart-
ment explained, but holders of
certificates may accompany
their dealer to Army camps to
inspect the vehicle they wish
to buy.; Applications will be
handled in. the order received
from essential users.
No vehicles will be sold direct
to the user, either by the Army
or the Treasury.
stations on which he was fea-
tured, were: WHN, WOR,
WINS, and WMAC.
In addition to producing
camp shows in the 58th Bat-
talion, he has organized a dance
orchestra which played recently
at a USO dance in the West
Hubbard USO. During inter-
mission, he sang several comic
numbers which were popular in
New Yrork.
There was no rank pulling in
the strictly GI Zimmerman fam-
ily when S-Sgt. Peggy Zimmer-
man, WAC supply sergeant,
visited her husband, S-Sgt. Dick
Zimmerman, at the Holabird
Signal Depot, Baltimore, Md.,
recently. Sgt. Peggy received
the fourth stripe that brought
her up even with Sgt. Dick just
before she went on furlough.
She said, “He’s my husband,
and I’m going to keep up with
him.”
A native of New Jersey,
Sgt. Peggy has been in the
Army since February, 1943.
After basic training at Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga., she was
transferred to 'Camp Wolters,
where she met and married
Sgt. Dick. She has a degree
in journalism from the Mary-
land College for Women.
And the name Dick Zimmer-
man, better known as “Zim,” is
a familiar one among Camp
Wolters sporting circle in which
he circulated for a year and a
half. Attached to Reception
Center until his transfer last
May, he holds the title of world
champion softball pitcher with a
record of 176 no-hit no-run
games.
parades—spectacles that to some were only a mirthless
joke—to others a.grim promise not to allow this tragic
chapter of, history to repeat itself again.
But on the battle fronts of the worftf gloomy
thoughts of the past found little place in the lives
of soldiers sweating out a blistering present. Radio
Berlin made Armistice Bay front pages in the U. S.
by screaming that an all-out offensive to complete
the conquest of Germany was underway—and, as
the week progressed, it looked more and more like
the German broadcasters were" telling the truth—or
doing some good guessing. Thursday brought news
from London that the Allies’ November offensive
against Germany had mounted toward all-out pro-
portions' under the stimulus of a new. drive by the
French First on the approaches to Belfort Gap at
the southeastern end of the 400-mile western front,
stretching from. Holland to Switzerland.
Except for the Aachen area, where only small gains
have been reported this week, the whole front was in
action. Beginning Wednesday, this new assault gained
four to five miles on a 25 mile front in its first day.
Simultaneously, the American Third, driving on the Ger-
man Saar basin, continued its squeeze play on the for-
tress of Metz by tightening its noose to within little
more than a mile of the city. ‘
The British Second has shoved its way through
the boglands of eastern Holland to within 37 miles of
the key industrial city of Duisburg.
While Soviet artillery pounded the German de-
fenders of East Prussia, the Russians this week
bent to the task of encircling and taking Budapest,
the capital of Hungary. Red forces have taken
Jaszapati and the fortress city of Jaszberenv, along
with numerous other towns, in bitter fighting along
a 100 mile front stretching from southeast of the
capital to the area of Miskolc.
While the Allied armies battled cold and the Ger-
mans in Europe, GIs in the Pacific had their hands full
of Japs and tough jungle fighting. Reports came
Thursday that two units of the American 24th Infantry
had practically severed the Ormoc road behind a trapped
Japanese regiment in the bitter battle for Leyte Island
in the Philippines. MacArthur announced that the In-
fantrymen had thrust behind the Nips near Limon, four
miles south of Carigara Bay, in a double envelopment
move. The main body of the 24th simultaneously fought
troops of the Japanese First Division on the road near
Limon. All week Americans have been battling in a
drive on Ormoc, last Jap held port on Leyte.
Two hundred Japanese troops were reported
Tuesday to have invaded the half-mile square island
of Ngeregong, eight miles northeast of American-
held Peleliu. The small American Marine garrison
was evacuated safely and U. S. big guns promptly
opened up on the tiny island.
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Eddins, Howard B. The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1944, newspaper, November 17, 1944; Camp Wolters, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601270/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.