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n the TownWith AL RICKETTSOLLYWOOD IS KING IN KOREA.Keeping in mind that “a bad movie is better than no movie at all,” the Ear East Army and Air Force Motion Picture-Service supplies the troops with five movies a week, or 262 a year.According to a spokesman, action pictures draw the biggest crowds, with color musicals running a close second, “Hollywood; doesn’t make enough musicals,” he added.On. movieless days troops. are shown TV films from the States, with the Ed Sullivan Show, I Love Lucy and sports features,Rfirs!Fritare:Pi Jofcou:HThuare;inclNe\kOclult;ranking as top favorites. A move is on now, we’re told, to increase the number of TV films shown in Korea.* i * *ALSO POPULAR are“live” shows featuring Stateside talent—preferably - female. While wewere there at least five Special Services troupes were on tour and all were being well received.We caught Johnny Grant, Rita Moreno and the Joy Caylor All-Girl Band at the 24th Div. Recreation Center No. 1.(We understand that theJAYNE AMES.Recreation Center, which includes a snack bar, theater, service club and various recreational facilities, is the first of a number to be constructed throughout Korea),tThe troops packed the theater for this particular show and even stood in the mud and rain with their heads stuck in windows to hear Grant—in his great big hat—rib the colonels and .sergeants.Ru***YHE. CAYLOR BAND, A DRIVING GROUP WHICH features blonde Jayne Ames on vocals, was a smash hit, especially with their up-tempo and novelty numbers. Rita Moreno sang—but she didn’t haveto. Just bouncing on stage was entertainment enough.* .At SMP Theater No. 2 we saw Town and Coun-*try Time, a ^western show featuring the Buckskins and Ann Jones and her Western Sweethearts. TheBuckskins are a well-integrated group that can hold their own with any western outfit in the States.4What the boys come to see, of cotfrse, are the Western Sweethearts. The ‘gals, other than motherly type Ann Jones, are all teenagers who look a lot better than they play—but nobody seems to care.cVRu:sercaifroThi. SAn'caitotioiersn***The kids have fun on stage and theirenthusiasm rubs off on the audience, which makes for a solid, well-received performance.The 7th Inf. Div. show, “Melody and Madness, was just getting started when we were in Korea and we didn’t get a chance to see it. We’ve had reports, however, that this all-soldier show is getting great respohse wherever it plays.. • • k“Melody and Madness” is scheduled fa begin, a two-week tour June 2.7 of the ^okyo-Ca-mp Zama-Camp Drake area. We plan to see ut then.Meet you . • . On the Townfieiatwlt;msKo3straihlt;hia]:/c- ai: gu
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Sat, Jun 16, 1956
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