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Set For Julya»ftAmateur SkitstTo Be ProducediePlans for Independence Day celebrations have been announced by various units in the Tokyo-Yokohama area.A huge parade, will be held Monday, July 5, at 10 a.m. Several thousand men from GHQ. the First Cavalry Division, Eighth Army the 11th Airborne Division and various other units will participate. .. The parade will be reviewed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur,Supreme Commander of Alii* ed Powers.Approximately 400 planes fyom FEAF units throughout the Far East will pass over the reviewing stand during the parade. First Cavalry artillery units will fire a 19-gun salute to General Mac-Arthur and a 48-gun salute to the Union.A carnival, sponsored bv Bankers’ Club 21, will be held in Hibiya Park beginning at I p.m. Monday. It will feature a regular carnival midway with concessions and regular sideshows. Two softball games between the AT1S and Navy teams will be played on Doolittle Field between 1 p.m. and 4;45 pjn. ✓ The FEAF band will furnish musical entertainment between games. NMonday night, a boxing and judo tournament will-precede a movie at the Tokyo Bowl Theater. The movie will begin at 9 p.m. An old-fashion-|ed barn dance will be heldiessS-iyttrsISidtosditinalIdLeiy-hSty-LeThe Ernie Pyle Theater today offered to produce the ten best skits written in the Far East Command by amateur playwrights.Theater officials said entries in this contest should be in the form of short skits (not more than 2,500 words) on everyday happenings in the occupation* Skits selectedwill be presented on the stage of the Ernie Pyle Theater, as “Occupation Blackouts.’* Contributions must be true♦unpublished skits from the entrants’ own experience or observation, showing appealing or humorous sidelights on the occupation scene*Skits submitted must be typewritten and cannot be returned or acknowledged. All** entries must be turned in to the Ernie Pyle Information office not later than midnight in the MoonKght Gardens from j July 31 to he considered. All8 to 11 p.m. skits submitted become theIn Yokohama, Special Ser-1 exclusive property of the vices has announced that a (Ernie Pyle Theater, huge float parade will be held Monday at 1 p.m. Thirty-one floats and two bands will participate.Two Yokohama Service Clubs are also planning carnivals for Monday. One carnival will be held in the western section ofMUSICAL COMEDY OPENS AT PYLE]]IStyy.idieFeaturing Rosalie Kozietekj3Yokohama park unless incle-1anc^ Eick Shelton, “Nona,” a Hment weather forces them to three-act operetta by Burton lt;move it into the club build- Crane, New Y6rk Times cor-respondent, opened in ErnieService Club No. 15 Will hold Pyle Theater last night for a its carnival in two parking lots five-day run to end Sunday. I ] adjacent to the club building. Although moving slowly, the ] Both carnivals will continue the musical play has several |1 until 10 Monday night. ] tantalizing songs by MissThe First Cavalry Division Kozietek and Shelton, the Jj at Camp Drake is planning a best being “Loved One” and full program for 2,400 guests “Teach Me How To Love.3* from the 11th Airborne Divi- The music is as good as anytomidsion, who will visit Camp Drake over the weekend, and mai^ch in the parade Monday morning. Highlight of the weekend will be the horse racing meet scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon.heard in Tokyo musicals heretofore and Betty Ramey, a recent importation to the occupation, is a provocative “Nona” bent on preventing a king (Dick Shelton) from signing away oil of his king-31]
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
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Thu, Jul 01, 1948
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