Sergeant Gene Autry'slast Intimate Interview Before He Enteredamerica's Armed Forces! the LONG and SHORT of Entertainment, According to Dr.I
E78 K C 2 D53 FIFTEEN CENTS PROGRAMS FOR SEPT. 5-11 I GENE AUTRY Technical Sergeant Sse Page 4 Sergeant Gene Autry'sLast Intimate Interview Before He EnteredAmerica's Armed Forces! THE LONG AND SHORT of entertainment, according to Dr.I. Q., is this sort of stunt in which the soldiers entertain each other their own way IN A dingylittle restaurant ina quiet little town Servicemen'sMorale Is Boostedby wrong somehow. incentral Ohio in the fall of 1940, a tow -headed As time went on, this young man was to have youngster, all of twenty-one, and away from Shows in Which They Can Take Part many such moments. Some would be more painful home for the first time in his life, munched a ham- than others. At times he was to be filled with burger and wondered why Uncle Sam had called and Show Individuality, Says Quizzer resentment at having been picked up and shoved him to the colors. He was a buck private from into a job he felt himself ill equipped to handle. Louisville, Kentucky, just arrivedat Reception At times the pangs of homesickness were to bring Center, Fort Hayes, Ohio, one of the many young a heavy, tight feeling to his throat and, when he men who suddenly found themselves thrown into By DR.I.Q. (JIMMY McCLAIN) was sure no one was looking, tears to his blue clear entirely new surroundings, new habits, new people, eyes. He was to find himself in that peculiar frame new duties, new responsibilities. He was not a of mind known only to the homesick, when nothing sentimental young man in the usual sense of the especially matters except the empty feeling of being word, nor was he addicted to the weakness of or twicea week, eating at home where Mother's all alone in a very big world.
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