Back from trouping the Pacific was 50-year-old Comedian Joe E. Brown, grey-haired and 15 lb. lighter, home for a rest. Father of the late Army Air Forces Captain Don Evan Brown, killed in action, the crater-mouthed clown had been diligently gagging for the armed forces for more than a year, had given as many as ten shows a day. He had pretty well covered Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, was the first entertainer to reach South Pacific advanced bases. Of his isolated audiences he reported: "Even when they couldn't hear me they'd laugh."
Back from a month's concert tour of...
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