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Friday, October 27, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chroni'd*

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The Act that Wasn't on
the Program

How it feels to hold a soldier's hand
when he's being blinded—forever!

Turn the page — quick — if you
want to. This isn't pleasant. It is
true. And every true American
should read it.

It happened to that young
lovely film star, Louise Allbritton.

They didn't tell her that day
in Hollywood when the U.S.O. invited her to Hu an
overseas troupe that anything like this would ever happen.

They didn't tell her because they didn't know either.
This "act" was never on any program.

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She went overseas. Gave show after show, many of
them to the accompaniment of the thunder of enemy guns.

Then one night she gave a show, and as usual, it was
more than a show. It was, to its audience, a dream of
home come true. Here was a live, lovely American girl
—a symbol of all the girls all the boys had left behind them.

A week later she was asked to visit the wounded in a
base hospital, and as she passed bctwcecn the long rows
of cots, a voice, weak and shy, called her name.

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She bent over the youngster's cot. "I was in the audi-
," he whispered. "Since then we
ence at
. They got my
were in the fighting at
right eye. In a few minutes the doctors arc going to take
out the other one. It's gotta be done, they told me. My
girl at home looks a lot like you. So if you could be—
well, the last thing I'll ever see in this world—if you
could stay with me until—I'd be a lot happier ..."

She didn't answer. She couldn't. Could you? But she
stayed there with the boy's single-eyed gaze fixed upon
her, and her hand in his, until they wheeled him to the
operating room and - the anaesthetist's merciful cone slipped
over his face, and the last thing he saw, or ever was to
see, was her face—so much like the face of the girl at
home he loved

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But for the grace of God it could have been your
upon that operating table. So for that boy—and every bob
—fighting our battles for us everywhere in the world,
support the National \Var Fund of which the U.S.O. is
one of the 19 participating agencies. You can do this
by giving to your local Communit \Var Fund. For boys
in battle zones—and prison camps. For starving Allies—
and for "casualties" right here on the home front. For
everyone and everything concerned—including your own
nscience—give . . . give . . . give . . . NOW

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