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...bleak day in December 1941 when Don Ascanio Colonna, the titled, haughty Italian Ambassador to the U.S., walked out of his embassy, Antonino Celotto was very sad. Faithful Antonino, who had served four ambassadors as embassy caretaker, had watched white-faced Don Ascanio burning the embassy's papers. Now Italy, at war with the U.S., had cut the last bond...
...chilly night last February a French submarine from Algiers sneaked through the Mediterranean, surfaced in Corsica's Ajaccio harbor long enough to let Captain Colonna d'Istria, young scion of an old Corsican family, slip ashore...
...years. Probably the first entertainer to work with the armed forces, Hope has also been the most frequent. Using trains, cars, trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO 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...
...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...
...Home. The turn came later that year, when Hope was signed by Pepsodent and told to build his own show. He used light timber-Jerry Colonna, who had been tromboning for CBS; Skinnay Ennis, who had recently formed his own band; the girls who became Brenda and Cobina. But he used skillful carpenters-a round dozen scriptwriters with whom he slaved for weeks. And Hope started ribbing himself. The show clicked almost from the start. Pepsodent's president took Hope on his yacht, remarked: "This is the ship that Amos 'n' Andy built." Said Hope...