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Months of jungle misery had made G.I.s in the China-Burma-India Theater a sensitive audience. Mere days of it also had their effect on some already sensitive big-name cinema stars. By last week the resulting strain was enough to rupture the CBI Theater's U.S.O. circuit, send sparks flying from New Delhi to Hollywood...
First sign of trouble came fortnight ago when Roundup, CBI's official, irrepressible G.I. weekly, complained that all too many soldiers were being disappointed by needlessly broken entertainment schedules. Citing cases, Roundup said that Joel McCrea, "large, husky, over-six-foot male," called off his announced 60-day tour in Cairo when he heard that "CBI is tough." Paulette Goddard left the theater six days early when she "reportedly was taken ill." Pledged to 120 days on the CBI circuit, Joe E. Brown "suddenly remembered a previous engagement in North Africa . . . decamped after...
...These selfless patriots who, incidentally, are well fed, clothed, housed, transported and paid by the Army and the U.S.O., discover in a couple of weeks that CBI is hot, wet, full of mosquitoes and they suddenly develop prior commitments, serious ailments, enceinte wives . . . spend, in the case of Sheridan . . . & Co., a total of 35 days out of a promised minimum 60, pick up a little money and a lot of publicity and sneak back to the United States to recuperate from the whole horrible ordeal...
...Pacific and CBI theaters would be the last to be heard from. They had always been shortest on manpower...
Paulette Goddard, well-gammed gamin of the cinema, was back in Manhattan from an eleven-week, 38,000-mile U.S.O. Camp Show tour. In the CBI (China-Burma-India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut...