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...only men in the uniforms of the United Nations are admitted. Established by the American Theater Wing War Service, the Stage Door Canteen represents the joint efforts of the whole entertainment field (stage, cinema, vaudeville, radio, music) to give boys in the services a better time than they could get cruising through town and paying through their noses. With hundreds of people cheerfully providing time, skill and materials, a $20,000 reconstruction job was done on the theater basement for less than...
Opening at five, closing down tight at midnight, the Canteen in its first week entertained 8,800 boys, last week entertained 14,000. In its month's history, it has only once removed the welcome sign, and then for five minutes: after 2,300 boys had clogged the place to asphyxiation...
Though there are about 50 to 100 show-girl "hostesses" a night, there are also an increasing number of "senior hostesses" (older actresses like Antoinette Perry and Constance Collier), because the Canteen has found that lots of the kids are skirt-shy, only feel at home with substitutes for Mother. For all hostesses there are two ironclad rules: They must be members of the entertainment professions (or the daughter or wife of a member), and they may not leave the place with a service...
...Smith would like to see restored the old Army Canteen Act of 1901, prohibiting all liquor on military reservations -with an added prohibition against liquor in nearby areas. Like all W.C.T.Uers, Mrs. Smith does not believe in moderation. She wants total abstinence and no back talk. Would you, she inquires, recommend opium, in moderation...
...their number who received instruction in the Air Raid Warden's course given here at Harvard, the girls have organized their own defense system. Their preparation includes Red Cross courses administered by certified student instructors, training in the care of refugee babies, and hints on how to run a canteen...