With the presentation of a musical skit that is said to have rivaled anything over staged in the Hasty Pudding Club, Company D held its second smoker on July 22.

The show started off with some fine group singing led by Ernie Wills at the pianoforte. Many of the old favorties were rearranged by the various harmonizing quartets who frequent the shower rooms from Weld to Holworthy.

When their voices were worn thin from piercing the smoke-filled hall, the curtain went up on a gay musical comedy featuring the adventures of a group of ship-wrecked survivors in the Dutch East Indies.

Professional Touch

Written by MacLean Russell and Richard R. Rogan with generous and lib contributions by the cast, Rogan staged the production with typical Hollywood touches. Happy Graves did a nice job as stage manager, improvising plam trees out of cardboard and grass skirts out of shredded newspapers.

Among the native Bellykness dancers were B. W. Brain, Francis Morgan, Philip O'Brien, James Oliver, Elbert Osserman, and Frank Williams, while Emil Wold was the cannibal king and his potboiler cook was portrayed by A. H. Rosset.

Ship-Wrecked Thespians

Survivors of the wercked U.S.S. Harvard were Gene Kenefick, Scott Petersen, Ray Perkins, J. M. Perry, Whit Raymond, Larry Roberts, and Dick Rogan, while Admiral Russell, Ed Rollins and Don Stahl, who also did a song and dance number, played officers' roles.

Kenefick performed with piano solos and answered repeated encore calls for more of Chopin. Ed Ricart "former boy soprano with the Metropolitan (Laundry)," showed what Julliard's has done for him by wowing the crowd with three Irish ballads.

Retarded impersonations

Rogan gave his impression of an instructor and practically stopped the show when he demonstrated his tennis technique in slow motion. Following this, he did several encores, including impersonations of personalities whom he had known during his stay in the film capital, and the grand finale, including the native ensemble's ritual fire dance, came at the close of the unanimous applause.

Kelleher was general chairman for the evening's entertainment, and was assisted by Sid Phelps and Albert Smedley, while the M.P.O.'s took charge of refreshments.