Room Service Musical Thrills Soldiers at Sheppard Field
Fourteen members of the 78th AAFBU staged Room Service at Service Club No. 2 in a three night run. The all enlisted cast delivered a professional show with strong performances from Sidney Grayson Rodney Creede and Ross Hall among others.
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Room Service
Cpl. H. D. Colson
Sheppard Field
78Th Aafbu
John Murray
Allen Borett
Sidney Grayson
Miller
Rodney Creede
Binion
Wac
Jay Kurtz
Christine
Audrey Hill
Hilda
Davis
Leon Schwartz
Jenkins
Schwartz
George Halsey
Gribble
Richard Kleiman
Senator Blake
Lamar USO to Host Deluxe Bingo on December 27
On Wednesday December 27 at 8 00 p m a deluxe Christmas week bingo game will be held on the first floor of the Lamar USO. Gifts of all sizes shapes and colors fill the grab bag and the evening ends with the award of a long distance call. Musical Bingo to be added as a regular Lamar USO program feature.
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Lamar Uso
DeuNMOR Departments Theatre Weekend Schedule
Sunday and weekday showtimes listed for Theatre No 1 and No 2. Belle Of The Yukon with Randolph Scott Gypsy Rose Lee Dinah Shore and other features. Lake Placid Serenade with Vera Hruba Ralston Vera Vague and Eugene Pallette. My Gal Loves Music Destiny. Guest In The House with Anne Baxter Ralph Bellamy Ruth Warrick Marie McDonald. The Three Caballeros Disney special with Donald Duck. added shorts and News of the Day. trail ers Musical Parade and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph Scott
Gypsy Rose Lee
Dinah Shore
Bob Burns
Alaska
Donald Duck
Vera Hruba Ralston
Vera Vague
Eugene Pallette
Anne Baxter
Ralph Bellamy
Ruth Warrick
Marie McDonald
Three Caballeros
Walt Disney
South America
Theatre listings and film lineup with multiple features
The notice outlines Theatre No 3 showings with first and second shows plus Sunday matinee. Farewell My Lovely stars Powell and Trevor as a private eye plot unfolds around a murder. Added trailers include Community Sing and News of the Day. Other films and reviews referenced with no advance publicity details.
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Dick Powell
Claire Trevor
Anne Shirley
Lake Placid
No Silent Night At Two Service Clubs On Christmas Eve
Iola Barron and Villa Tinker plan festive revelry for GIs at Service Clubs 1 and 2 on Christmas Eve. Cpl. Larry Levin’s group will tour both clubs, while a verandah view of Chez Fatigue’s split night promises entertainment.
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Dasher
Prancer
Blitzen
Iola Barron
Villa
Chez Fatigue
Larry Levin
Levin
Service Club
Mammoth Yule Party Highlighted By USO Feature
The Young People's League of First Methodist Church and its choir directed by Pearl Calhoun Davis will be featured in a candlelight prelude to Christmas Eve at 8 30 tomorrow. After services a mammoth party with USO Club participants will gather around the club's huge Christmas tree with donations of homemade cookies cakes and candies from Wichita Falls churches the Post Debs and the Sheppardettes. The USO staff will guide the gala and Christmas carols will fill all four club floors.
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Young People’s League of the First Methodist Church
Pearl Calhoun Davis
USO Club
Wichita Falls
Post Debs
Sheppardettes
The
USO
Cowan And Levin Create Blues Song In Army Music Room
Pvt. Stanley Cowan and Cpl. Larry E. Levin wrote and recorded a new blues tune titled I'm Returning the Blues in the Personnel Services music room. The pair began with six notes that had occupied Levin for eight years and turned them into a completed song with lyrics by both men. Cowan, composer of Do I Wor ry? believes it will become a hit.
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Stanley Cowan
Cpl
Larry E. Levin
Cowan
Personnel Services Music Room
Levin
Yule Dance Planned At Lamar USO Monday Eve
About 10 000 people expected to jam the four floors of the Lamar USO for a Christmas formal dance organized by the USO and affiliated groups. Officials promise a grand Yule atmosphere and an event open to everybody.
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Lamar Uso
USO
Yule Tea Dance at Lamar USO Planned for Christmas Day
The Lamar USO hosts a Christmas tea dance at 5 p m on Christmas Day with live music by the 524th AAF Band providing the entertainment.
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Lamar
AAF
Yuletide Programs Planned At Eighth St USC
Eighth St USC Club opens Christmas weekend with a kiddies party for Wichita Falls Day Nursery featuring Pvt Jay Ross and a junior talent lineup. Over 50 children expected. Santa to attend. GIs and families join in carols, coffee and doughnuts, and a large Christmas party with gifts for all.
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Eighth St. Usc
St. Usc Club
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls Day Nursery
Santa Claus
S. M. Gose
Lorene Dotson
Wichita Falls
Susie Buckley
Herbert Rogers
Virginia Moss
Gene Lasater
Max Kurtz
Phylliss Stockton
Holiday Week Planned at Officers' Club on Sheppard Field
Maj. Nelson P. Davies announces a full holiday week at the Sheppard Field Officers' Club. Events include a formal dance with the 524th RAF Dance Band, open house with eggnog, Yuletide dinner on Christmas Day, and regular dance nights by the 524th AAF band. The weekend features a big New Year’s Eve blowout.
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John O. Burke
Davies
AAF
White Elephant Party to Be Yule Aftermath
A White Elephant party will be held in the Red Cross auditorium at the regional station hospital on Tuesday December 26. Convalescent patients will swap gifts that they do not want with re wrapped items. Coffee and cookies will be served and Mrs. O B Kiel of the Gray Ladies will supervise the event.
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Red Cross
Regional Station Hospital
O. B. Kiel
Gray Ladies
Christmas Shopping At The Exchange In TEXACTS
Betty Fryer highlights practical Exchange items for year end shoppers. Bath shoes, rubber stamped clothing marks, stamp kits, ink and pads, and department for officers. Also manicure sets, bath crystals, bandages, erasers, salted nuts, film developing, Bible additions, and wartime novels by Allan Chase and John Hersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Fryer
Texacts
South America
Allan Chase
Italy
John Hersey
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George Abbott
Gordon Miller
Oswego
Sasha
Wagner
Hall
Ross Hall
Ketcham
Faker
Bill Pitkin
Dr. Glass
Ralph Woodland
Hogarth
Louis Domyancic
Marshall Yokelson
Bill Edwards
Deunmor
Daniel Onak
Fred S. Curdis
Bob Crosby
Grace McDonald
Destiny
Gloria Jean
Alan Curtis
June Vincent
Sun
Pvt
Jay Ross
Masician
Teddy Druke
Carl Thompson
Patsy Duncan
al Horowitz
Jo Farabee
Basil Rathbone
Dickens
Deni
Freddy McKinnon
Ralph Wesson
Burkburnett
Yule
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