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...morning for calisthenics and rifle drill. They also have machine-gun practice. From 1 o'clock in the afternoon until dinnertime they rehearse everything from Tchaikovsky to Cow-Cow Boogie. Four nights a week they broadcast with such assisting talent as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Fanny Brice. Their U.S.-sponsored programs, two over coast-to-coast networks, are Thursday's Wings to Victory, Friday's Hello Mom, Saturday's Soldiers with Wings, Sunday's Wings over the West Coast...
Finally the baker's masterpiece was cut, with soldiers yelling: "Give me a piece, Eleanor!" For cake-eating accompaniment Charlie and Bergen quipped over Charlie's lunch that day at the White House...
...Willard (last stop, after appearances at the Stage Door Canteen, Mayflower, Shoreham, Wardman Park, Lincoln Colonnades), Eleanor Roosevelt long-legged it through a corridor smothered with bunting. There her evening was to reach its climax: cutting of a 200-lb. birthday cake. Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen greeted...
Judy Splinters' substitute for an Edgar Bergen is a 16-year-old San Francisco girl, Shirley Faye Dinsdale, who, says the real Bergen, is "the best natural ventriloquist I ever saw." What impresses ventriloquists most is an unusual accomplishment-Shirley Dinsdale can actually make her puppet sing, in a clear, sweet soprano...
Booked for a six-day tour and 25-minute shows, Bergen & friends Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd stayed twelve days, did 51 shows of 45 minutes each. At Dutch Harbor, where Charlie got the biggest laugh, he gave 13 straight shows. "Hello, stinky," Charlie would chirp from inside his floppy sheeplined coat & hat, and Bergen would reprimand him for his discourtesy to men in uniform. Thereupon Charlie would crack: "Don't give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment...