The White Falcon - 24.03.1945, Blaðsíða 2

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ABROAD IN ICELAND
A scene in one of Iceland’s many cooperative grocery stores.
Cooperatives
Many GIs walking the
streets of Reykjavik have
seen a green sign with) the
words “Kron” over vari-
ous gppcery and hook
stores, j as well as other
business establishments.
This sign indicates that
the store is a member of
the Kron Co-operative
Society - one of 52 groups
in the Federation of Ice-
landic Co-operative Soci-
eties.
The first co-operative
much lower prices.
By the end of 1943, near-
ly 22,000 Icelanders were
members of these co-
operative societies which
did an annual business of
98 million kronur (rough-
ly $6,500,000) in exporting
and, importing' merchand-
ise.
To join a co-operative,
a prospective member
invests capital (usually
ten kronur) in the socie-
ty. Regardless of the am-
was organized in 1882 in ount of money invested
the northern part of the • in stock, the member has
island when a group of
farmers pooled their
sheep and agricultural
products to he shipped to
s| England. Under this org-
jj anization, the men were
one vote in the organizat-
ion.
At the end of the year,
any surplus above ex-
penses and a small re-
serve fund is turned back
to the members on the
« able to sell their stock at
better prices and with basis of the amount they
« lower transport and buy from the co-opera-
s' handling charges. By the
same token, merchandise
% could he imported at
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live. These dividends usu-
ally average seven or
eight percent. In; 1943, the
average dividend; recei- jj
ved was 117 kronur.
At a yearly meeting, ©
each society elects a ho,- «
ard of directors and a «
representative who sits «
on the boai;d of directors g
of the national federat- S
ion. The F.I.C.S. (which
is not connected in any
way with the Icelandic
Government) sets up gen-
eral policies and advises
member organizations on g
uniform methods and «
practices for doing bus-
iness. «
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The federation main-
tains branches in New j;
York and Leith, Scotland,
in order to buy products §
for the co-operative soc- j;
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ieties. It also maintains a «
school in Reykjavik, as g
well as a woolen mill, «
tannery and tailor shops
at Akureyri on the north- J?
ern coast. «
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On a Chicago street, five-
year-old Silver, a collie who
is going blind, gets assistance
from her personal seeing-eye
dog.
—ENSA Show
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thousands of miles by air,
road and water to entertain
Allied servicemen and wom-
en. More than once they
have had to jump from their
vehicles when enemy planes
have appeared overhead.
All of the girls are enthus-
ed over playing before the
Americans because they are
“such good sports about
coming up on stage and tak-
ing part in our gags.” “In
fact,” says Ethel Loftus,
male impersonator, “they’ll
go to any end for a laugh!”
From the time that the
show opens with a comm-
unity sing until it closes
with a western song medley,
the show mounts in intensi-
ty and laughs — with the
high’ spot being the sequence
wherein accordionist Val-
erie Brown calls two GIs
to the stage for a housekeep-
ing scene. Sgt. Steve Rudloff
and Sgt. A1 Cerunda fell into
the spirit of tilings and put
over this skit in great .fash-
ion.
Ann Sherry’s idea of how
PT should he given proved
a little too strenuous for
most men as she twisted lie-
self into more knots than
there are in a pretzel.
Nanette Rees really “sold”
the audience with her
vocal of “Alice Blue Gown”
and “I’ll Be Seeing You.”
(During the temporary absence of Pvt. Jack Gray, this
column is being written by Sgt. Bob Hill.)
Ethel Loftus, the male impersonator of the “Phyl’s Five”
ENSA troupe which wowed them at the Tripoli Theater
Tuesday night, represents the fourth generation of her
family in show business. Her aunt, Cecile Loftus, played
in the Broadway production of “Angel Street.” She died
while in Hollywood working in a Deanna Durbin film.
Ethel’s father, George Whylie (pronounced “Willie”) is
producing GertrudeLawrence’s latest NewYork show.'Miss
Loftus, by the way, is “tickled pink” over her new GI
brother-in-law .... Base Special Service’s own “Junior”
Cosby was the lad who as getting all those romantic glan-
ces and winks from blonde And Sherry during her rendit-
ion of “You Made Me Love You.”
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A half hour spent at an Engineers camp this week
proved to us that the Engineers work as hard at night as
they do during the day. They have their huts fixed with all
the comforts and gadgets imaginable to make their stay
here more homelike. For instance, Cpl. Lawrence Bognar
has made a very practical and handsome writing desk.
Over it he has installed a lamp with a shade made of nett-
ing which has silhouettes of curvesome hula dancers und-
erneath. What’s more, “Bogie” has made his own pin-up
drawing from photos. He has nudes, head shots, the whole
works. . . .This same unit has a day room which is beyond
a doubt just about the finest of its type in Iceland. Built
by the “Pioneers” under the supervision of Lt. Richardson
and Sgt. Senior, the day room has a modern city skyline
painted on the side Walls,‘a star-lit sky And a streamlined
bar with indirect lighting... .Each member of one hut
has a personally-autographed photo of movie5 actress
Larraine Day which is v6ry nice going!
Boh Sugarman of the Army Band phoned in a little
sidelight on the girl who did the strip-tease at Club 14’s
“Rinky Dink County Fair” two weeks ago. About 100
girls—so Sugarman claims—were asked to do the act but
refused. Finally, a petite blonde named “Adda” volun-
teered. When Adda drew all the applause from the crowd,
Bob reports that she was the envy of all the other girls—
who kind of wished they had offered their assistance....
Another candidate for our growing list of those fellows
who have been stationed in other theaters: Sgt. Ken Birch
of the Base Photo Lab. Ken was at Batiste Field, Cuba,
a year-ago this time serving as an aerial photographer....
As you’ve all heard, our AFRS station has entered the big-
time and has been assigned a set of call letters—SIGI.
Those time signals are something new which has been
added, too. Cpl. Ken Landry, the lad with that soft, slow
New Orleans drawl, is back at the station from TD-
Our Signal Corps photographer took an especially long
time getting the camera focused for this shot—and who
wouldn’t with five young women beaming at you so
brightly? The girls are members of “Phyl’s Five” ENSA
group which played the Tripoli Theater last Tuesday
night. Left to right, they are Valerie Brown, Nanette Rees,
Phyllis Moulding (at piano), Ann Sherry and (in “tux”)
Ethel Loftus.