First Mechanics Class Will Graduate and Whaki Khaki Opens
Scenes from Whaki Khaki open at Memorial Auditorium tonight with 17 soldiers girls in the chorus. Maxine Fuson fits a costume for Corp. Arnold Rose of the 401st School Squadron. George Silver and Dick Willis write while Fay Boggess and Betty Lou Fletcher note. Director Robert E. Sylva works with ballet artist Carlye Ramey as the cast performs All American Boy after a salute.
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Memorial Auditorium
Maxine Fuson
Corp
Arnold Rose
401St
the Writers, Corps
George Silver
Dick Willis
Fay Boggess
Betty Lou Fletcher
Robert E. Sylva
Carlye Ramey
Famed Singer and Notables to Attend Aviation Ceremony
The first graduating class of aviation mechanics at Sheppard Field will receive diplomas February 24 in a ceremony for about 225 graduates. World renowned contralto Marian Anderson will perform, arriving by specially chartered plane, with many dignitaries including Mrs. Roosevelt and top War officials invited to attend. The event may be broadcast coast to coast by radio.
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Sheppard Field
Marion Anderson
Edward C. Black
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Stimson
Air
Technical Training Command
8Th Corps
Fort Sill
Anderson
Army Air Corps
Black
Whaki Khaki Opens at Memorial Auditorium Tonight
Whaki Khaki a lavish musical comedy opens at Memorial Auditorium at 8 p m tonight after five weeks of rehearsing at the soon to be opened Service Club Col E C Black commands the audience will include city officials and Dallas talent The show features eight original song and dance numbers a pit orchestra and a 70 member cast with satirical sketches and audience gags. Tickets remain for both performances at the morale office post exchanges Renfro drug store and USO.
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Corp
Dick Willis
George Silver
Brockton
Mass
Ducati
Benjamin Alperstein
Renfro Drug Store
USO
Wichita Falls
O'Neill Replaces Lincoln at Tulsa
Major General Rush B. Lincoln, commanding general of the Air Corps Technical Training Command, was relieved and ordered into foreign duty. Col. R. E. O'Neill, previously in charge at Chanute Field, was named to replace him at Tulsa headquarters.
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O’neill
Lincoln
Tulsa
Rush B. Lincoln
Air Corps Technical Training Command
Air Forces
Okla
R. E. O'Neill
Air Corps Technical Training
Chanute Field
Rantoul, IW
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Jk yLon
Blisskrieg
PVT
Don Dana
Texacts
BY Corp. Irving Neuwirth
Sgt
Robert Price
Tom Acosta
The
Wings of Music
Corporal Silver
Jack
Thomas
Private Thomas
Sylva and
Rose
Colonel Black
Jack Cook
Carleton S. Young
Dale Stout
John H. Ted
Val Weigel
Frank W. Watts
Sanford Friedman
Vernon Barber
Wilson Seavo
Richard D. Poston
Homer Bagby
Martin Kodash
Louis Ginsberg
Pinch Singer
Earl Redding
Phillip MacGregor
Pearl Harbor
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