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IROIJCHO ON THE lOOSE • •• CIIIJIHT ON THEATRE STIIIE "Groucho" Marx EX
Makes "Liberty" , POTINTIA

On Treasure Island
Groucho Marx and a troupe of
Hollywood "top-drawer" entertain-
.ers brought another sparkling show
to Treasure Island, June 2, under
the sponsorship of the Hollywood
\
Victory Committee.
The two-hour performance was RADIO MATERIEL SCHOOL
presented twice. The first show was The Japs started it on the
primarily for the benefit of Treas- Seventh-let's end it with the 7th
ure Island hospital patients and
War Bond Drive. Although the
men from the Pre-Embarkation
Center, and the second, for other Seventh War Loan campaign does
not officially begin until June 22
island personnel.
all personnel who wish to purchase
The famous "Groucho," one of
War Bonds may do so by contac~-
movies' funniest funny men, was
ing their company commanders or
cast in the role of emcee. Some of come directly to the War Bond Of·
the show's personalities included flee, Building No. 28, Room 107. All
Irene Ryan, of the radio show "Tim
bond applications will be accepted
and Irene"; lovely Marian Beil, at any time and the bonds will be
soon to appear in the new MGM
issued on June 22.
movie, "The Ziegfeld Follies";
Charles Blake, of both the stage With the completion of a very
and movie production, "This is the successful intramural basketball
Army"; talented dancer, "Roberta," tournament, RMS turns to outdoor
who showed the boys a thing or two volleyball. Tournament play is ex-
about professional dancing, and' a pected to begin June 18 and it is
cast of talented Hollywood artists. anticipated that approximately 50
teams will sign up. Men of the regi-
The show was written by Harry
ment have been playing a great
Ruby and the musical direction was
deal of volleyball during their rec-
the responsibility of Jesse Colbert.
reation period and have developed
The Navy band from Fleet City some high class performers so there
provided the music and proved the should be some heavy competition
importance of a good band.
. during the next few weeks .
T All men having previous experi-
GI's girl friend: "I'll never go out ence with large and small bore
with that ventriloquist any more." rifle and all caliber hand-guns are
GI: "Why, honey? " particularly invited to sign up for
Girl friend: "Last night he sat either team. These teams are being
me on his knee and you should sponsored by the Welfare and Rec-
have heard the things he made me reation department and for further
say." information contact Lt. (jg) W. C.
Jessup, athletic officer, in Building
No. 28.
Cross-Word Answers Six beaming faces, six brand
new CSp(A) uniforms and six
0 I L D M AR D I ET . proud men were in evidence this
A'L E IE ID E EC RU' past week with the advancement to
TE AL N AG LE AN chief athletic specialist for the fol-
lowing: E. R. Tucker, B. B. Paige,
A. N. Nosari, R. H. Harkins, P. P.
EXP■RER Caslavka and F. J. Regan. Our sin-
COW ALE cere and heartiest congratulations
AXE 1ST to you all for this well earned ad-
HEY, GROUCHO!-Yes, that's Groucho at top left, Malotte in lower center and lower left is Marian Bell, PER NES
with a pretty girl as usual, in this instance Kay soon to sing her way into MGM's "Ziegfeld Follies." vancement. Also in . the line for
Gorcey, who sang a duet with him. Top right shows Most embarrassed man was W. A. Bush, CSK, when SN E felicitations are L. H. Pickel, CY,
another famous funny man, Frank Jenks, who has Charles Blake found certain "unmentionables" in B 0 T H ER S 0 M E J. D. Price, Sp(A)lc, N. J. Bar-
ideas a bout a trombone. Jesse Colburn is telling Irene his pocket. Talented dancer, "Roberta," is seen in AR AB E AR AL AS tosic, Sp(A)2c, S. M. Haug, Sp(A)·
Ryan something interesting at center right, and the the insert in a pose calculated to raise the blood pres- D. 0 GE R u B R I p s 2c, S. G. Trukositz, Sp(A)2c, M.
lady with the smile at lower right is Jean Darrell, sure several degrees. Musical background for the
who sings a warm ·song. Struttiri' right along is Betty performances was provided by the Fleet City band. DE ED s L y D 0 SE Iverson, Ylc, D. Collins, Y2c and
B. Bowling, Y3c.
ARMED GUARD SMILES $47,926.25. The salesmen, or sales- time to make the Armed Guard II. fi. Boatswain Claims lerlteley Ir/de
women at the Armed Guard Center total one of the highest on Treasure
SELL MANY BONDS are Waves with plenty of person- Island.
ality, smiles and sales ability. They
take over the bond booth by rota-
The power of a pretty face seems
to have done more for Armed tion during the week, and the r esult Polack Bros. Circus
Guard bond sales than all the arm of their efforts is best demonstrated
by the war bond total above.
bending methods ever contrived. Meets Former Member
The present total of war bond The Mighty Seventh War Loan
sales since January 1 now stands at Drive will find them working over- On Treasure Island
Last week's performance of the
Polack Bros. Circus had special
Former Mem/Jer of Polaclt Bros. Circus Here significance for a student at the
Treasure Island School of Tropical
Medicine.
Sam Polack, now a pharmacist
mate second class, was promotional
director for the circus for 12 years
before joining the Navy. The acts
which thrilled the Treasure Island
audience were familiar to him and
the performers were old friends.
The circus is owned by Irving J .
Polack, uncle of the Navy man, who
was one of the first circus men to
realize that the big show could be
succ-essfully produced indoors.
P olack admitted that outside of
some past experience as a chemist,
his background for his present
Navy billet was slight. He is not
::ertain as to what use it will be
to him in the event he returns to
2ircus business, but right now he is
spending his time on tropical dis-
e:ise and its cures, willing to finish
h,s job with the Navy before going
back to the "big top."

IT'S A GOOD JOKE and members of the Polack Bros. Circus, which This Week's DefiniU.ons :
appeared on Treasure Island recently, have fun asking former promo• Balcony- Where Romeo met
tional director, Sam Polack, how the Navy made him a pharmacist mate.
Left to right, Eugene Randow, funniest of town constables; Elsie Sidney Juliet because he couldn't get seats WINSOME IS THE WORD for Eileen Turner, bride of Allen W. Turner,
of the famous cycling act, Polack, now assigned to the School of Tropical in the orchestra. BM1c, of Treasure Island. They are shown cutting the wedding cake at
Metliclne; Dennis Stevens, director of the clown band and Hedy Sidney Satan's daughters- Hell's belles. a r-eception held at the Claremo,nt Hotel, Berkeley, after the ceremony ·
of the bicycling team. Hubert Castle, master of the bounding wire is Bar- A business that has the un- at the Little Chapel of the Flowers June 3. Eileen is the daughter of F. L.
shown in the insert explaining the difficult routine to Lt. (jg) Coy C. Turner of Berkeley. After a brief honeymoon in Yosemite Valley, the
Palmer, recreation officer, steadiest customers. couple will make their home in this vicinity.