Company L Entertains the Combat Team

Company L, 442nd Infantry, gave a variety show entertainment Wednesday evening at the third battalion amphitheater of the Japanese American combat team. The title was “You Can Take It With You. (We don't want it!)” comedy skits, group and chorus singing, Hawaiian melodies, and a magician were among the numbers. The magician overestimated his ability to get out of rope knots. Tied up early in the show, he was still writing in .meshes when the show closed and the audience had departed. An officers’ trio, Capt. R T. Applegarth, and Lts. R. W. Smith and Milton L. Brenner sang several numbers to ukulele accompaniment while prospective non-coms were bidden by an off-stage sign to “clap like hell.” A perniciously interfering peanut vendor, crying “Hot, frosted peanuts!” finally got disgusted with his parsimonious audience and flung his bags of peanuts at them. Some of the peanuts lodged in trees and were being shaken down as the show closed. Master of ceremonies was smooth-talking Sgt. Herbert L. Fujita.