To Hawaii last winter, in charge of entertaining the troops, went Broadway's most high-brow actor, Captain Maurice (Hamlet, Macbeth) Evans. In Hawaii this spring he is offering the Army's most low-brow show, a bawdy, corny musical called Hey, Mac, that the dogfaces are eating up.
To get what he wanted—and knew the soldiers wanted—was not easy. When Hey, Mac opened, there was a terrible to-do over its rough lyrics and rougher jokes. But Evans, arguing that Hey, Mac was for soldiers only, and that soldiers are not young ladies, carried the day. One skit that got the ax had been laid in...
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