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U.S. Naval Training and Distribution Center

VOL. IV- No. 11 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. APRIL 28, 1945

''Word From the People'' Expresses Conference Hopes From T.I.

PARLEY DELEGATES,

ISLANDERS, HEAR
HISTORY IN MAKING

A unique experience came to the
men and women who were present
at the airing of the CBS pre-con-
ference broadcast from Theatre
No. 3 Tuesday night. They could
truthfully say they had seen, heard
and felt history.
The show was written and
directed by Norman Corwin, who
took over the theatre's new sound
booth at 1900 to bring "Word
From the People" from forty points
on six continents. Conference dele-
gates, military guests and Treasure
Island personnel in the audience,
found the world had been cut down
to fit one small theatre on Treas-
ure Island.
Spectators found themselves tim-
ing the show as carefully as the
men in the control booth; admiring
the capable emcee, a young Marine
with no previous radio experience;
watching the behind-scenes activ-
ity that makes a big broadcast
come out your loudspeaker as a
finished product.
Secretary _of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr. ended the program
with remarks concerning the work
which lies before the delegates to
the big San Francisco conference.
For sixty minutes the people of
the world had expressed their
hopes and prayers for the confer-
ence and the successful accom-
plishment of its mission. The
Treasure Island audience, spot-
lighted for the moment, had the
unique experience of being the hub
in a great wheel.

New Broadcast Series to
1
Open at Theatre No. 3
The first of a second series of
programs designed to acquaint
civilians with the vital jobs open
to them with the Navy will be pre-
sented over .station KGO next Tues-
day, May 1, at 1815.
The new -series of "Visits to
CORWIN ·AND COMPANY
* * Treasure Island" is different from
the one just completed in that it is
BROUGHT THE WORLD TO T. I.
a "live" broadcast. Under the old
system, the program was tran-
scribed and then broadcast direct
TREASURE ISLAND CHOIR had the op- tra conductor. At lower left CBS engineer, from the radio station.
portunity of singing f.or the CBS pre-con- Ted Denton, and Mr. Corwin catch ·part of
ference broadcast from Theatre No. 3. Top the show from the new sound booth. Wave Featuring the St. Mary's Pre-
left is men's section of the choir. Top right, choir members are seen at lower right. Flight School, the program origin-
Hugh Folkins, Sp(WJ1c,- talks over musical Circle inset is emcee Sgt. Harry Jackson of ates from Treasure Island and will
arrangements with ·Norman Corwin, who the Marines, and at far right is ·soloist Al- be aired from Theatre No. 3. Sched-
directed the s·how, and Lud Gluskin, orches- fred Drake of "Oklahoma" fame.
uled speakers are Commodore R.
W. Cary, Commander, U. S. Naval
Training and Distribution Center,
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King, Commanding Officer of St.
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Musical background will be pro-
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