Bound For Four Weeks to Troop and Hospital Entertainment in Korea, 1951

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1 image. Bound For Four Weeks to Troop and Hospital Entertainment in Korea, 25 October 1951. Danny Kaye; Monica Lewis, singer.; Supplementary material reads: "From: Studio Publicity Directors Committee; Webster 3-7101 (Duke Wales). For release Thursday, October 25. Danny Kaye and screen singer Monica Lewis fly out of Los Angeles International Airport at noon today (25), bound for four weeks of troop and hospital entertainment in Korea. They will perform for United Nations forces at bases on the embattled peninsula, also will give performances in Hawaii, Okinawa and Japan. With Miss Lewis and Kaye are June Bruner, accordianist and Korean entertainment veteran, and Sam Praeger, accompanist, who carries with him a suitcase-size piano. The trip was set up by the Hollywood Coordinating Committee and USO-Camp Shows. Kaye will be taking up where he left off in 1945, when he entertained American troops in Japan and other Pacific areas. Miss Lewis has entertained many Korea veterans at hospitals in this country. The troupe goes from Los Angeles by United Airlines to San Francisco, and will depart from Travis Air Force Base on the first military air transport leaving for Hawaii".

Asset Metadata

Title Bound For Four Weeks to Troop and Hospital Entertainment in Korea, 1951

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1951-10-25

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1951-10-25

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m6337

Identifier EXM-N-9376-006 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-89818 (legacy record id), examiner-m6337 (legacy record id), 9376-006 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 89818

Unique identifier UC11733266

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-9376-006.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.3 in × 30.0 in at 300dpi
59.2 cm × 76.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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