Radio: Global Entertainment

One of the liveliest new shows on the air, which has been running for a month, is unavailable to most U.S. radio listeners. Studded with top-flight talent, free from commercials, bathos, exhortations to "keep 'em flying," etc., it is a cheerful half-hour of unadulterated entertainment. Name of the show is Command Performance. Sponsor: Uncle Sam.

Seventeen times on Sunday, over 17 different wave lengths, Command Performance is short-waved by eleven U.S. radio stations to the armed forces on Bataan Peninsula, to frosty Iceland, Alaska, Ireland, the scorchy Caribbean, to the boys in the...

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