Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Saturday, one of our more prominent Ensigns and one of our loveliest WAVES, after a four week whirlwind, high frequency courtship, completed a coupled circuit in a little church on Staten Island, New York...
Some precocious Ensign with a sense of humor, perhaps the result of crossed circuit of a misplaced since wave, recently referred to your correspondent as "Mr. Lonely Hearts" This, I presume, was one to my persistent efforts in trying to all some of the more worthwhile invitations which have been gracing the Bulletin Board in numerous quantities of late. To the aforementioned quipster, I respond with the following...
...team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played it straight through to tiny posts in the Aleutians where men almost never get leave...
...British circuit was tougher, with Hope & Company (Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...
Guns for Gags. The North Africa-Sicily circuit was toughest of all. Bombed in Algiers, Bizerte, Palermo, Hope once almost dislocated his hip, once got jammed between two targets-an airport and an ammunition dump. In a Palermo hotel, he and Block were writing a script during a dive-bombing. Commented Block: "We did a show and ran for our lives." Cracked Hope: "I've never done anything else...