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Becher Soldier Show collection","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Becher, John C.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The John C. Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","ead_ssi":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","_root_":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","_nest_parent_":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/GMU/repositories_2_resources_46.xml","title_filing_ssi":"John C. Becher Soldier Show collection","title_ssm":["John C. Becher Soldier Show collection"],"title_tesim":["John C. Becher Soldier Show collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1940-1953"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1940-1953"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["C0090","/repositories/2/resources/46"],"text":["C0090","/repositories/2/resources/46","John C. Becher Soldier Show collection","United States -- Armed Forces -- Military life","World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war","Soldiers -- Recreation","World War, 1939-1945","Performing arts","Theater","Theater and society","There are no access restrictions.","This collection is arranged by item group, such as Soldier Shows, scripts, theatrical manuals, and pocket guides.","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert M. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Keeping morale high was important during the war. This was recognized at the highest military levels. General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, for example, stressed the importance of maintaining high morale: \"Napoleon evaluated morale over material as three to one. I believe that recent experiences indicate a re-estimate of this value - the odds being near five to one, or probably even ten to one in some instances in favor of the psychological factor\" (Morale Program, box 7 folder 2 page 7). Programs and services that maintained or heightened morale covered a wide range - athletics, libraries, religion, education - and none was more important than entertainment, which is well-represented by the materials in the Becher Collection.","Entertaining troops during World War II was an enormous enterprise. The celebrated USO-Camp Shows was a civilian-based organization that provided professional entertainment for the Armed Forces. The U.S. Army Motion Picture Service was a non-profit organization that sponsored movie theaters to ease the transition from civilian to military life. A related group, the U.S.O. Mobile Motion Picture Service, showed films to overseas troops. Whereas these organizations provided passive forms of entertainment, the Entertainment Section of the Army Special Services Division took a different approach. They actually included the soldiers in creating their own entertainment. These were called Soldier Shows.","Soldier Shows were made by soldiers for soldiers. The principal objective was to achieve mass participation. A wide range of talent was employed in creating Soldier Shows - including singers, dancers, actors, orators, trivia buffs, costume and scenery makers, artists, and carpenters. Because mass participation by military personnel was encouraged, the program had a virtually unlimited field to draw on.","Soldiers participating in Soldier Shows acted in skits and plays, sang musical numbers, performed comedy routines, quizzed other soldiers, and made arts and crafts. Such activities forged common bonds among the troops and provided emotional links to their homeland. Soldier Shows were particularly effective in boosting the morale of hospitalized soldiers. The therapeutic value of Soldier Shows played an important role in the physical and mental rehabilitation of injured soldiers.","Soldier Shows were remarkably effective in boosting morale. In fact, reports have shown that the program was one of the easiest and most effective ways to combat low morale. (Morale Program, box 1 folder 2 page 7). General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a back-stage visit to the cast who put on a Soldier Show in North Africa, praised their usefulness in the war effort: \"You are entertaining soldiers. You are not fighting with guns - but your job is just as important. As long as you are doing your job well . . . you will be rendering a service, and a great one, to your fellow soldiers and your country\" (Morale Program, box 1 folder 2 page 7). ","Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. EAD markup completed in February 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty.","The Special Collections Research Center also holds the  , which contains documents, photographs, and memorabilia from his time in the Air Force during World War II.","The John C. Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes. The six cubic feet (nine linear feet) cover the years 1940 through 1953.","Most of the items in the collection are Soldier Shows, entertainments written to amuse overseas troops and to boost morale. Produced by the Army Special Services Division, the scripts were written by professional and amateur playwrights. Many were created by military personnel attending the Special Services School in Lexington, Virginia (1943-1946). The collection also includes: newspaper and magazine clippings, war humor, poems, blackouts, quizzes, crafts manuals, original songs, song parodies, sheet music, flyers, pamphlets, theatrical manuals and guides, lesson plans and lectures, production ideas, and comedy routines. There are also several military-issued Pocket Guides to foreign lands, including guides to Burma, Germany, Greece, West Africa, Italy, and Great Britain. ","Script by unknown","Script by Leo Lieberman","Script by William Hanley","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Paddy Chayefsky","Script by Louis Kronenberger","Script by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron","Script by Lonnie Coleman","Script by Robertson Davies","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by William McCleery","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Santha Rama Rau","Script by Arnold Wesker","Script by Elick Moll","Script by Patricia Joudry","Script by Dore Schary","Script by Michael Howard","Script by Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Henry Denker","Script by Murray Schisgal","Script by Harry Tugend","\"The Reluctant Draftee\" and \"Ten Minute Break\": Two Complete Soldier Shows","Comedy Acts and Minstrel Show Material","Revue Sketches Vaudeville Comedy Acts","\"Take it or Leave It\": A Humorous Quiz Book","Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen, Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly: Comedy Scenes","Soldier Shows Guide","The Army Play by Play: Five Prize-Winning One-Act Plays","Blackouts and Sketches","GI: Prize Winning Blackouts","G.I. Revues: 10 Package Shows","G.I. One Act Plays","Chillers and Thrillers: A Book of Mystery Sketches","MC Jackpot\nAvailable in digital format.","Skits and Bits","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies, Games","Games, Puzzles, Quizzes","\"Bedzapoppin\", (A Revue), Games, Quizzes","\"No. 6\" is corrected by hand to \"No. 9\"","Comedy Sketches","Minstrel Shows with Music","Music and Lyrics for Musical Comedies and Revues","Musical Opening Choruses, Finales and Production Numbers for Soldier Shows","Time Out","Held at Fort McPherson, Georgia","Held at Atlanta, Georgia","Reception Center: Blackouts, Parodies, Games","Reception Center, Blackouts, Parodies, Revues","Entertainment Section: Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\nAvailable in digital format.","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","It's the G.I. State Fair","It's the G.I. State Fair","Thanksgiving, Mock Election, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Murder Mystery, Production Numbers, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Broadway Special Featuring New York's latest Hit \"The Hasty Heart,\" Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Folio Highlights, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Entertainment Grab Bag, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Sketches, Crossover, Quizzes, Revues, Blackouts, Parodies","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Schedules 1 - 14","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Music score","Parody on contemporary song","Script by Barnett Shaw","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","War humor","War humor","Poem by Shakespeare?","Poem","War humor","\"...army life and what the average soldier has to put up with.\"","Poems","War humor by Herb Graffis","Script","War humor","By Cpl. Adolph Abramson","Article by Weare Holbrook","War humor","War humor by Robert T. Souter in Esquire, p. 65","War humor","Script by Ben Hecht in Collier's, pp. 11-13, 37-39","\"A Soldier's Reminder of the War's Background, Its Purpose and Its Prospects\"; Script by Sgt. Fred Stewart","\"An old-fashioned melodrama in two acts\"","\"Used at SSMS\"","Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast; Script by Norman Corwin","Held at Fairview School Auditorium","John Steinbeck's play, presented by the Tulsa Little Theater Group in War Department, at Theater No. 2, Camp Crowder, Missouri","War humor","Blackouts, Crossovers and Parodies for WAC Variety Nights","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies and Games","Prepared by the National Theater Conference and the Morale Branch of the United States Army","Speech Work Material by Doyle Virginia Cockrell, San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School","\"The attached suggestions are furnished for the purpose of assisting the Theatrical Technical Advisor in the many problems which arise in the producing, directing, rehearsing and presentation of soldier theatricals.\"\nAvailable in digital format.","The Production Staff, Principles of Directing and Acting, Production of One-Act and Full-Length Plays","Distributed by the Special Services Division, A.S.F.","Radio and Theatrical Material, Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Sixty-Second Blackouts","Musical Quizzical","Fourth Service Command Soldier Show Conferences","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","by Robert Riley Crutcher, presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department","presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department\nAvailable in digital format.","Presented by the Special Services Division of the War Department","Skit by Lt. W.P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Words and music by Sgt. J. C. Lewis; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Cpl. Raymond Simon; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits and production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. D. W. Todd; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold M. Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Musical parody by Corporals Tom Adair and Joe Twerp; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Harold Fleming; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits by Lt. W. Toll; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by George S. Kaufman; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pvt. Ivan Tors; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Henry Blankfort and Bert Lawrence; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Etter; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Chuck Allen; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Salem Ludwig and Joseph R. Horenstein; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parody and stage directions by H. Shaffer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. J. R. Humphreys;Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Paul Price; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Vernon Stone; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. McLean; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. G. [?] Carr; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Newspaper clipping; Skit by Lt. Alexander B. Reed; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Robert P. Crawford; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt's Baskind and English; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by W. P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Story by D. L. Champion; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sam Locke; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit from Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic Editorial) Huntington, Indiana; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Ideas by Cpl. Don Mann; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. A. Hamilton; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","by Pvt. R. Weil; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Fred Stewart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skits: March of Time; Eskimo Courtesy; Superstition; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Songs: Special Service Song by John Baker; I've Got Enthusiasm; Ballet and Opening; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 1 Lt. Bob Wellington; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. WMA. Page; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Captain Leonard Blair; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Production suggestions by Sgt. Hez Dufenthaler; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Ed Rush Rubin; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. F. J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song by Lt. R. S. Beck; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Script by Alice Gerstenberg","Script","A Musical Revue in Five Scenes by Arthur A. Noyes, Murray L. Grand, Lionel N. Lile, and Morton J. Green","Fundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation","Fundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation","The Function of the Special Service Officer as to Soldier Shows","Informal Theatricals","Production Planning Meetings","Soldier Production Organization","Soldier Stagecraft","Script","Blackout by Lt. W. P. Moore","Blackout by Lt. Bob Eastright","Script","Script","Script","Blackouts by Lois Landauer","Prepared by the Entertainment Section, Special Services Branch, Royal Canadian Air Force","Script","Pocket Guide prepared by Special Services Division, Services of Supply, United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Army Information Branch, Army Service Forces, United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense","Language Guide prepared by the War Department","Pocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense","Pocket Guide prepared by Special Services Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Army Information Branch, A.S.F., United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense","Pocket Guide prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army","The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)","The John C. Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes.","George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center","United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division","Becher, John C.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["C0090","/repositories/2/resources/46"],"normalized_title_ssm":["John C. Becher Soldier Show collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["John C. Becher Soldier Show collection"],"collection_ssim":["John C. 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I believe that recent experiences indicate a re-estimate of this value - the odds being near five to one, or probably even ten to one in some instances in favor of the psychological factor\" (Morale Program, box 7 folder 2 page 7). Programs and services that maintained or heightened morale covered a wide range - athletics, libraries, religion, education - and none was more important than entertainment, which is well-represented by the materials in the Becher Collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEntertaining troops during World War II was an enormous enterprise. The celebrated USO-Camp Shows was a civilian-based organization that provided professional entertainment for the Armed Forces. The U.S. Army Motion Picture Service was a non-profit organization that sponsored movie theaters to ease the transition from civilian to military life. A related group, the U.S.O. Mobile Motion Picture Service, showed films to overseas troops. 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Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes. The six cubic feet (nine linear feet) cover the years 1940 through 1953.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost of the items in the collection are Soldier Shows, entertainments written to amuse overseas troops and to boost morale. Produced by the Army Special Services Division, the scripts were written by professional and amateur playwrights. Many were created by military personnel attending the Special Services School in Lexington, Virginia (1943-1946). The collection also includes: newspaper and magazine clippings, war humor, poems, blackouts, quizzes, crafts manuals, original songs, song parodies, sheet music, flyers, pamphlets, theatrical manuals and guides, lesson plans and lectures, production ideas, and comedy routines. 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W.P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWords and music by Sgt. J. C. Lewis; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Cpl. Raymond Simon; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits and production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. D. W. Todd; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Arnold M. Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusical parody by Corporals Tom Adair and Joe Twerp; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Harold Fleming; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits by Lt. W. Toll; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by George S. Kaufman; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pvt. Ivan Tors; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Henry Blankfort and Bert Lawrence; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Etter; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Chuck Allen; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Salem Ludwig and Joseph R. Horenstein; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong parody and stage directions by H. Shaffer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. J. R. Humphreys;Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Paul Price; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. Vernon Stone; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. McLean; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. G. [?] Carr; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping; Skit by Lt. Alexander B. Reed; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Robert P. Crawford; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt's Baskind and English; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by W. P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStory by D. L. Champion; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sam Locke; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit from Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic Editorial) Huntington, Indiana; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdeas by Cpl. Don Mann; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. A. Hamilton; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Arnold Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Pvt. R. Weil; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Fred Stewart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkits: March of Time; Eskimo Courtesy; Superstition; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSongs: Special Service Song by John Baker; I've Got Enthusiasm; Ballet and Opening; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 1 Lt. Bob Wellington; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. WMA. Page; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Captain Leonard Blair; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProduction suggestions by Sgt. Hez Dufenthaler; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Ed Rush Rubin; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. F. J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong by Lt. R. S. Beck; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript by Alice Gerstenberg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Musical Revue in Five Scenes by Arthur A. Noyes, Murray L. Grand, Lionel N. Lile, and Morton J. Green\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Function of the Special Service Officer as to Soldier Shows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformal Theatricals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProduction Planning Meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSoldier Production Organization\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSoldier Stagecraft\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackout by Lt. W. P. Moore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackout by Lt. Bob Eastright\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackouts by Lois Landauer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by the Entertainment Section, Special Services Branch, Royal Canadian Air Force\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket Guide prepared by Special Services Division, Services of Supply, United States Army\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket Guide prepared by Army Information Branch, Army Service Forces, United States Army\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLanguage Guide prepared by the War Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket Guide prepared by Special Services Division, Army Service Forces, 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Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes. The six cubic feet (nine linear feet) cover the years 1940 through 1953.","Most of the items in the collection are Soldier Shows, entertainments written to amuse overseas troops and to boost morale. Produced by the Army Special Services Division, the scripts were written by professional and amateur playwrights. Many were created by military personnel attending the Special Services School in Lexington, Virginia (1943-1946). The collection also includes: newspaper and magazine clippings, war humor, poems, blackouts, quizzes, crafts manuals, original songs, song parodies, sheet music, flyers, pamphlets, theatrical manuals and guides, lesson plans and lectures, production ideas, and comedy routines. There are also several military-issued Pocket Guides to foreign lands, including guides to Burma, Germany, Greece, West Africa, Italy, and Great Britain. ","Script by unknown","Script by Leo Lieberman","Script by William Hanley","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Paddy Chayefsky","Script by Louis Kronenberger","Script by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron","Script by Lonnie Coleman","Script by Robertson Davies","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by William McCleery","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Santha Rama Rau","Script by Arnold Wesker","Script by Elick Moll","Script by Patricia Joudry","Script by Dore Schary","Script by Michael Howard","Script by Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Henry Denker","Script by Murray Schisgal","Script by Harry Tugend","\"The Reluctant Draftee\" and \"Ten Minute Break\": Two Complete Soldier Shows","Comedy Acts and Minstrel Show Material","Revue Sketches Vaudeville Comedy Acts","\"Take it or Leave It\": A Humorous Quiz Book","Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen, Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly: Comedy Scenes","Soldier Shows Guide","The Army Play by Play: Five Prize-Winning One-Act Plays","Blackouts and Sketches","GI: Prize Winning Blackouts","G.I. Revues: 10 Package Shows","G.I. One Act Plays","Chillers and Thrillers: A Book of Mystery Sketches","MC Jackpot\nAvailable in digital format.","Skits and Bits","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies, Games","Games, Puzzles, Quizzes","\"Bedzapoppin\", (A Revue), Games, Quizzes","\"No. 6\" is corrected by hand to \"No. 9\"","Comedy Sketches","Minstrel Shows with Music","Music and Lyrics for Musical Comedies and Revues","Musical Opening Choruses, Finales and Production Numbers for Soldier Shows","Time Out","Held at Fort McPherson, Georgia","Held at Atlanta, Georgia","Reception Center: Blackouts, Parodies, Games","Reception Center, Blackouts, Parodies, Revues","Entertainment Section: Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\nAvailable in digital format.","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","It's the G.I. State Fair","It's the G.I. State Fair","Thanksgiving, Mock Election, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Murder Mystery, Production Numbers, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Broadway Special Featuring New York's latest Hit \"The Hasty Heart,\" Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Folio Highlights, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Entertainment Grab Bag, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Sketches, Crossover, Quizzes, Revues, Blackouts, Parodies","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Schedules 1 - 14","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Music score","Parody on contemporary song","Script by Barnett Shaw","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","War humor","War humor","Poem by Shakespeare?","Poem","War humor","\"...army life and what the average soldier has to put up with.\"","Poems","War humor by Herb Graffis","Script","War humor","By Cpl. Adolph Abramson","Article by Weare Holbrook","War humor","War humor by Robert T. Souter in Esquire, p. 65","War humor","Script by Ben Hecht in Collier's, pp. 11-13, 37-39","\"A Soldier's Reminder of the War's Background, Its Purpose and Its Prospects\"; Script by Sgt. Fred Stewart","\"An old-fashioned melodrama in two acts\"","\"Used at SSMS\"","Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast; Script by Norman Corwin","Held at Fairview School Auditorium","John Steinbeck's play, presented by the Tulsa Little Theater Group in War Department, at Theater No. 2, Camp Crowder, Missouri","War humor","Blackouts, Crossovers and Parodies for WAC Variety Nights","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies and Games","Prepared by the National Theater Conference and the Morale Branch of the United States Army","Speech Work Material by Doyle Virginia Cockrell, San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School","\"The attached suggestions are furnished for the purpose of assisting the Theatrical Technical Advisor in the many problems which arise in the producing, directing, rehearsing and presentation of soldier theatricals.\"\nAvailable in digital format.","The Production Staff, Principles of Directing and Acting, Production of One-Act and Full-Length Plays","Distributed by the Special Services Division, A.S.F.","Radio and Theatrical Material, Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Sixty-Second Blackouts","Musical Quizzical","Fourth Service Command Soldier Show Conferences","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","by Robert Riley Crutcher, presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department","presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department\nAvailable in digital format.","Presented by the Special Services Division of the War Department","Skit by Lt. W.P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Words and music by Sgt. J. C. Lewis; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Cpl. Raymond Simon; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits and production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. D. W. Todd; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold M. Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Musical parody by Corporals Tom Adair and Joe Twerp; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Harold Fleming; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits by Lt. W. Toll; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by George S. Kaufman; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pvt. Ivan Tors; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Henry Blankfort and Bert Lawrence; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Etter; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Chuck Allen; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Salem Ludwig and Joseph R. Horenstein; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parody and stage directions by H. Shaffer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. J. R. Humphreys;Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Paul Price; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Vernon Stone; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. McLean; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. G. [?] Carr; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Newspaper clipping; Skit by Lt. Alexander B. Reed; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Robert P. Crawford; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt's Baskind and English; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by W. P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Story by D. L. Champion; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sam Locke; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit from Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic Editorial) Huntington, Indiana; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Ideas by Cpl. Don Mann; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. A. Hamilton; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","by Pvt. R. Weil; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Fred Stewart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skits: March of Time; Eskimo Courtesy; Superstition; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Songs: Special Service Song by John Baker; I've Got Enthusiasm; Ballet and Opening; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 1 Lt. Bob Wellington; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. WMA. Page; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Captain Leonard Blair; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Production suggestions by Sgt. Hez Dufenthaler; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Ed Rush Rubin; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. F. J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song by Lt. R. S. Beck; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Script by Alice Gerstenberg","Script","A Musical Revue in Five Scenes by Arthur A. Noyes, Murray L. Grand, Lionel N. Lile, and Morton J. Green","Fundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation","Fundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation","The Function of the Special Service Officer as to Soldier Shows","Informal Theatricals","Production Planning Meetings","Soldier Production Organization","Soldier Stagecraft","Script","Blackout by Lt. W. P. Moore","Blackout by Lt. Bob Eastright","Script","Script","Script","Blackouts by Lois Landauer","Prepared by the Entertainment Section, Special Services Branch, Royal Canadian Air Force","Script","Pocket Guide prepared by Special Services Division, Services of Supply, United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Army Information Branch, Army Service Forces, United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense","Language Guide prepared by the War Department","Pocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense","Pocket Guide prepared by Special Services Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Army Information Branch, A.S.F., United States Army","Pocket Guide prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense","Pocket Guide prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_292a18e68bd4561eedd206dc674a70fc\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe John C. Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The John C. Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes."],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division"],"names_ssim":["George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center","United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division","Becher, John C."],"corpname_ssim":["George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center","United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division"],"persname_ssim":["Becher, John C."],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":363,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T05:28:34.764Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","ead_ssi":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","_root_":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","_nest_parent_":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_46","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/GMU/repositories_2_resources_46.xml","title_filing_ssi":"John C. Becher Soldier Show collection","title_ssm":["John C. Becher Soldier Show collection"],"title_tesim":["John C. Becher Soldier Show collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1940-1953"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1940-1953"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["C0090","/repositories/2/resources/46"],"text":["C0090","/repositories/2/resources/46","John C. Becher Soldier Show collection","United States -- Armed Forces -- Military life","World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war","Soldiers -- Recreation","World War, 1939-1945","Performing arts","Theater","Theater and society","There are no access restrictions.","This collection is arranged by item group, such as Soldier Shows, scripts, theatrical manuals, and pocket guides.","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert M. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Keeping morale high was important during the war. This was recognized at the highest military levels. General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, for example, stressed the importance of maintaining high morale: \"Napoleon evaluated morale over material as three to one. I believe that recent experiences indicate a re-estimate of this value - the odds being near five to one, or probably even ten to one in some instances in favor of the psychological factor\" (Morale Program, box 7 folder 2 page 7). Programs and services that maintained or heightened morale covered a wide range - athletics, libraries, religion, education - and none was more important than entertainment, which is well-represented by the materials in the Becher Collection.","Entertaining troops during World War II was an enormous enterprise. The celebrated USO-Camp Shows was a civilian-based organization that provided professional entertainment for the Armed Forces. The U.S. Army Motion Picture Service was a non-profit organization that sponsored movie theaters to ease the transition from civilian to military life. A related group, the U.S.O. Mobile Motion Picture Service, showed films to overseas troops. Whereas these organizations provided passive forms of entertainment, the Entertainment Section of the Army Special Services Division took a different approach. They actually included the soldiers in creating their own entertainment. These were called Soldier Shows.","Soldier Shows were made by soldiers for soldiers. The principal objective was to achieve mass participation. A wide range of talent was employed in creating Soldier Shows - including singers, dancers, actors, orators, trivia buffs, costume and scenery makers, artists, and carpenters. Because mass participation by military personnel was encouraged, the program had a virtually unlimited field to draw on.","Soldiers participating in Soldier Shows acted in skits and plays, sang musical numbers, performed comedy routines, quizzed other soldiers, and made arts and crafts. Such activities forged common bonds among the troops and provided emotional links to their homeland. Soldier Shows were particularly effective in boosting the morale of hospitalized soldiers. The therapeutic value of Soldier Shows played an important role in the physical and mental rehabilitation of injured soldiers.","Soldier Shows were remarkably effective in boosting morale. In fact, reports have shown that the program was one of the easiest and most effective ways to combat low morale. (Morale Program, box 1 folder 2 page 7). General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a back-stage visit to the cast who put on a Soldier Show in North Africa, praised their usefulness in the war effort: \"You are entertaining soldiers. You are not fighting with guns - but your job is just as important. As long as you are doing your job well . . . you will be rendering a service, and a great one, to your fellow soldiers and your country\" (Morale Program, box 1 folder 2 page 7). ","Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. EAD markup completed in February 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty.","The Special Collections Research Center also holds the  , which contains documents, photographs, and memorabilia from his time in the Air Force during World War II.","The John C. Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes. The six cubic feet (nine linear feet) cover the years 1940 through 1953.","Most of the items in the collection are Soldier Shows, entertainments written to amuse overseas troops and to boost morale. Produced by the Army Special Services Division, the scripts were written by professional and amateur playwrights. Many were created by military personnel attending the Special Services School in Lexington, Virginia (1943-1946). The collection also includes: newspaper and magazine clippings, war humor, poems, blackouts, quizzes, crafts manuals, original songs, song parodies, sheet music, flyers, pamphlets, theatrical manuals and guides, lesson plans and lectures, production ideas, and comedy routines. There are also several military-issued Pocket Guides to foreign lands, including guides to Burma, Germany, Greece, West Africa, Italy, and Great Britain. ","Script by unknown","Script by Leo Lieberman","Script by William Hanley","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Paddy Chayefsky","Script by Louis Kronenberger","Script by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron","Script by Lonnie Coleman","Script by Robertson Davies","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by William McCleery","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Santha Rama Rau","Script by Arnold Wesker","Script by Elick Moll","Script by Patricia Joudry","Script by Dore Schary","Script by Michael Howard","Script by Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Henry Denker","Script by Murray Schisgal","Script by Harry Tugend","\"The Reluctant Draftee\" and \"Ten Minute Break\": Two Complete Soldier Shows","Comedy Acts and Minstrel Show Material","Revue Sketches Vaudeville Comedy Acts","\"Take it or Leave It\": A Humorous Quiz Book","Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen, Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly: Comedy Scenes","Soldier Shows Guide","The Army Play by Play: Five Prize-Winning One-Act Plays","Blackouts and Sketches","GI: Prize Winning Blackouts","G.I. Revues: 10 Package Shows","G.I. One Act Plays","Chillers and Thrillers: A Book of Mystery Sketches","MC Jackpot\nAvailable in digital format.","Skits and Bits","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies, Games","Games, Puzzles, Quizzes","\"Bedzapoppin\", (A Revue), Games, Quizzes","\"No. 6\" is corrected by hand to \"No. 9\"","Comedy Sketches","Minstrel Shows with Music","Music and Lyrics for Musical Comedies and Revues","Musical Opening Choruses, Finales and Production Numbers for Soldier Shows","Time Out","Held at Fort McPherson, Georgia","Held at Atlanta, Georgia","Reception Center: Blackouts, Parodies, Games","Reception Center, Blackouts, Parodies, Revues","Entertainment Section: Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\nAvailable in digital format.","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","It's the G.I. State Fair","It's the G.I. State Fair","Thanksgiving, Mock Election, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Murder Mystery, Production Numbers, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Broadway Special Featuring New York's latest Hit \"The Hasty Heart,\" Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Folio Highlights, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Entertainment Grab Bag, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Sketches, Crossover, Quizzes, Revues, Blackouts, Parodies","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Schedules 1 - 14","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Music score","Parody on contemporary song","Script by Barnett Shaw","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","War humor","War humor","Poem by Shakespeare?","Poem","War humor","\"...army life and what the average soldier has to put up with.\"","Poems","War humor by Herb Graffis","Script","War humor","By Cpl. Adolph Abramson","Article by Weare Holbrook","War humor","War humor by Robert T. Souter in Esquire, p. 65","War humor","Script by Ben Hecht in Collier's, pp. 11-13, 37-39","\"A Soldier's Reminder of the War's Background, Its Purpose and Its Prospects\"; Script by Sgt. Fred Stewart","\"An old-fashioned melodrama in two acts\"","\"Used at SSMS\"","Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast; Script by Norman Corwin","Held at Fairview School Auditorium","John Steinbeck's play, presented by the Tulsa Little Theater Group in War Department, at Theater No. 2, Camp Crowder, Missouri","War humor","Blackouts, Crossovers and Parodies for WAC Variety Nights","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies and Games","Prepared by the National Theater Conference and the Morale Branch of the United States Army","Speech Work Material by Doyle Virginia Cockrell, San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School","\"The attached suggestions are furnished for the purpose of assisting the Theatrical Technical Advisor in the many problems which arise in the producing, directing, rehearsing and presentation of soldier theatricals.\"\nAvailable in digital format.","The Production Staff, Principles of Directing and Acting, Production of One-Act and Full-Length Plays","Distributed by the Special Services Division, A.S.F.","Radio and Theatrical Material, Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Sixty-Second Blackouts","Musical Quizzical","Fourth Service Command Soldier Show Conferences","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","by Robert Riley Crutcher, presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department","presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department\nAvailable in digital format.","Presented by the Special Services Division of the War Department","Skit by Lt. W.P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Words and music by Sgt. J. C. Lewis; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Cpl. Raymond Simon; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits and production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. D. W. Todd; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold M. Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Musical parody by Corporals Tom Adair and Joe Twerp; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Harold Fleming; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits by Lt. W. Toll; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by George S. Kaufman; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pvt. Ivan Tors; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Henry Blankfort and Bert Lawrence; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Etter; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Chuck Allen; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Salem Ludwig and Joseph R. Horenstein; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parody and stage directions by H. Shaffer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. J. R. Humphreys;Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Paul Price; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Vernon Stone; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. McLean; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. G. [?] Carr; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Newspaper clipping; Skit by Lt. Alexander B. Reed; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Robert P. Crawford; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt's Baskind and English; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by W. P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Story by D. L. Champion; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sam Locke; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit from Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic Editorial) Huntington, Indiana; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Ideas by Cpl. Don Mann; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by S/Sgt. A. Hamilton; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","by Pvt. R. Weil; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Fred Stewart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skits: March of Time; Eskimo Courtesy; Superstition; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Songs: Special Service Song by John Baker; I've Got Enthusiasm; Ballet and Opening; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 1 Lt. Bob Wellington; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. WMA. Page; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Sgt. 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State Fair\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanksgiving, Mock Election, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMurder Mystery, Production Numbers, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadway Special Featuring New York's latest Hit \"The Hasty Heart,\" Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolio Highlights, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEntertainment Grab Bag, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSketches, Crossover, Quizzes, Revues, Blackouts, Parodies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchedules 1 - 14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusic score\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParody on contemporary song\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript by Barnett Shaw\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStory by Sidney P. Goldman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStory by Sidney P. Goldman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem by Shakespeare?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...army life and what the average soldier has to put up with.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor by Herb Graffis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Cpl. Adolph Abramson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle by Weare Holbrook\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor by Robert T. Souter in Esquire, p. 65\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript by Ben Hecht in Collier's, pp. 11-13, 37-39\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Soldier's Reminder of the War's Background, Its Purpose and Its Prospects\"; Script by Sgt. Fred Stewart\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"An old-fashioned melodrama in two acts\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Used at SSMS\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColumbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast; Script by Norman Corwin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeld at Fairview School Auditorium\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Steinbeck's play, presented by the Tulsa Little Theater Group in War Department, at Theater No. 2, Camp Crowder, Missouri\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar humor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackouts, Crossovers and Parodies for WAC Variety Nights\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies and Games\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by the National Theater Conference and the Morale Branch of the United States Army\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeech Work Material by Doyle Virginia Cockrell, San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The attached suggestions are furnished for the purpose of assisting the Theatrical Technical Advisor in the many problems which arise in the producing, directing, rehearsing and presentation of soldier theatricals.\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Production Staff, Principles of Directing and Acting, Production of One-Act and Full-Length Plays\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistributed by the Special Services Division, A.S.F.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio and Theatrical Material, Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSixty-Second Blackouts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusical Quizzical\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFourth Service Command Soldier Show Conferences\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFourth Service Command Soldier Shows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFourth Service Command Soldier Shows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFourth Service Command Soldier Shows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Robert Riley Crutcher, presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003epresented by the Special Service Division of the War Department\nAvailable in digital format.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresented by the Special Services Division of the War Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. W.P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWords and music by Sgt. J. C. Lewis; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Cpl. Raymond Simon; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits and production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. D. W. Todd; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Arnold M. Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusical parody by Corporals Tom Adair and Joe Twerp; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Harold Fleming; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious skits by Lt. W. Toll; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by George S. Kaufman; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pvt. Ivan Tors; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Henry Blankfort and Bert Lawrence; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Etter; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Chuck Allen; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Charles Roth; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Salem Ludwig and Joseph R. Horenstein; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong parody and stage directions by H. Shaffer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer and Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. J. R. Humphreys;Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Paul Price; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. Vernon Stone; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. McLean; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert N. Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. G. [?] Carr; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Jack Hill; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping; Skit by Lt. Alexander B. Reed; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt. Robert P. Crawford; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Lt's Baskind and English; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by W. P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStory by D. L. Champion; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sam Locke; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Alfred D. Geto; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit from Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic Editorial) Huntington, Indiana; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdeas by Cpl. Don Mann; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. A. Hamilton; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Michael Ames; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Arnold Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Pvt. R. Weil; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Abe Laufe; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Fred Stewart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkits: March of Time; Eskimo Courtesy; Superstition; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSongs: Special Service Song by John Baker; I've Got Enthusiasm; Ballet and Opening; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 1 Lt. Bob Wellington; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. WMA. Page; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Sgt. Max Behm; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Captain Leonard Blair; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProduction suggestions by Sgt. Hez Dufenthaler; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by Pfc. Ed Rush Rubin; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by 2 Lt. F. J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit by S/Sgt. Robert Mazer; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSong by Lt. R. S. Beck; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript by Alice Gerstenberg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Musical Revue in Five Scenes by Arthur A. Noyes, Murray L. Grand, Lionel N. Lile, and Morton J. Green\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFundamental Purpose of Soldier Shows in Army Recreation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Function of the Special Service Officer as to Soldier Shows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformal Theatricals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProduction Planning Meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSoldier Production Organization\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSoldier Stagecraft\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackout by Lt. W. P. Moore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackout by Lt. 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Becher Soldier Show collection contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes. The six cubic feet (nine linear feet) cover the years 1940 through 1953.","Most of the items in the collection are Soldier Shows, entertainments written to amuse overseas troops and to boost morale. Produced by the Army Special Services Division, the scripts were written by professional and amateur playwrights. Many were created by military personnel attending the Special Services School in Lexington, Virginia (1943-1946). The collection also includes: newspaper and magazine clippings, war humor, poems, blackouts, quizzes, crafts manuals, original songs, song parodies, sheet music, flyers, pamphlets, theatrical manuals and guides, lesson plans and lectures, production ideas, and comedy routines. There are also several military-issued Pocket Guides to foreign lands, including guides to Burma, Germany, Greece, West Africa, Italy, and Great Britain. ","Script by unknown","Script by Leo Lieberman","Script by William Hanley","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas","Script by Paddy Chayefsky","Script by Louis Kronenberger","Script by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron","Script by Lonnie Coleman","Script by Robertson Davies","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by William McCleery","Script by Leonard Spigelgass","Script by Santha Rama Rau","Script by Arnold Wesker","Script by Elick Moll","Script by Patricia Joudry","Script by Dore Schary","Script by Michael Howard","Script by Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Richard Morris","Script by Henry Denker","Script by Murray Schisgal","Script by Harry Tugend","\"The Reluctant Draftee\" and \"Ten Minute Break\": Two Complete Soldier Shows","Comedy Acts and Minstrel Show Material","Revue Sketches Vaudeville Comedy Acts","\"Take it or Leave It\": A Humorous Quiz Book","Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen, Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly: Comedy Scenes","Soldier Shows Guide","The Army Play by Play: Five Prize-Winning One-Act Plays","Blackouts and Sketches","GI: Prize Winning Blackouts","G.I. Revues: 10 Package Shows","G.I. One Act Plays","Chillers and Thrillers: A Book of Mystery Sketches","MC Jackpot\nAvailable in digital format.","Skits and Bits","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Soldier Shows \"Blueprint Special\"","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies, Games","Games, Puzzles, Quizzes","\"Bedzapoppin\", (A Revue), Games, Quizzes","\"No. 6\" is corrected by hand to \"No. 9\"","Comedy Sketches","Minstrel Shows with Music","Music and Lyrics for Musical Comedies and Revues","Musical Opening Choruses, Finales and Production Numbers for Soldier Shows","Time Out","Held at Fort McPherson, Georgia","Held at Atlanta, Georgia","Reception Center: Blackouts, Parodies, Games","Reception Center, Blackouts, Parodies, Revues","Entertainment Section: Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches\nAvailable in digital format.","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","It's the G.I. State Fair","It's the G.I. State Fair","Thanksgiving, Mock Election, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Murder Mystery, Production Numbers, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Broadway Special Featuring New York's latest Hit \"The Hasty Heart,\" Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Folio Highlights, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Entertainment Grab Bag, Revues, Parodies, Blackouts, Radio Scripts, Crossovers","Sketches, Crossover, Quizzes, Revues, Blackouts, Parodies","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Radio and Theatrical Material: Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Schedules 1 - 14","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Stage instructions and hand drawn costume and set images","Music score","Parody on contemporary song","Script by Barnett Shaw","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","Story by Sidney P. Goldman","War humor","War humor","Poem by Shakespeare?","Poem","War humor","\"...army life and what the average soldier has to put up with.\"","Poems","War humor by Herb Graffis","Script","War humor","By Cpl. Adolph Abramson","Article by Weare Holbrook","War humor","War humor by Robert T. Souter in Esquire, p. 65","War humor","Script by Ben Hecht in Collier's, pp. 11-13, 37-39","\"A Soldier's Reminder of the War's Background, Its Purpose and Its Prospects\"; Script by Sgt. Fred Stewart","\"An old-fashioned melodrama in two acts\"","\"Used at SSMS\"","Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast; Script by Norman Corwin","Held at Fairview School Auditorium","John Steinbeck's play, presented by the Tulsa Little Theater Group in War Department, at Theater No. 2, Camp Crowder, Missouri","War humor","Blackouts, Crossovers and Parodies for WAC Variety Nights","Blackouts, Sketches, Quizzes, Parodies and Games","Prepared by the National Theater Conference and the Morale Branch of the United States Army","Speech Work Material by Doyle Virginia Cockrell, San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School","\"The attached suggestions are furnished for the purpose of assisting the Theatrical Technical Advisor in the many problems which arise in the producing, directing, rehearsing and presentation of soldier theatricals.\"\nAvailable in digital format.","The Production Staff, Principles of Directing and Acting, Production of One-Act and Full-Length Plays","Distributed by the Special Services Division, A.S.F.","Radio and Theatrical Material, Skits, Blackouts, Sketches","Sixty-Second Blackouts","Musical Quizzical","Fourth Service Command Soldier Show Conferences","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","Fourth Service Command Soldier Shows","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"","Prepared by the Radio Section, Headquarters Branch Office","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","\"For the entertainment of the Armed Forces overseas\"\nAvailable in digital format.","by Robert Riley Crutcher, presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department","presented by the Special Service Division of the War Department\nAvailable in digital format.","Presented by the Special Services Division of the War Department","Skit by Lt. W.P. Moore; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song parodies; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Words and music by Sgt. J. C. Lewis; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Cpl. Raymond Simon; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits and production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. D. W. Todd; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various production numbers; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Lt. Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Arnold M. Auerbach; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Musical parody by Corporals Tom Adair and Joe Twerp; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","By Red Graham; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Frank J. Conboy; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Gene Lockhart; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. Harold Fleming; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Various skits by Lt. W. Toll; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pfc. M. Sternberg; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Song lyrics; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by George S. Kaufman; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by Pvt. Ivan Tors; Item written by personnel going to school for Special Services in Lexington, Virginia 1943-1946","Skit by 2 Lt. Frank J. 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