Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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' Q , z.:, . ' ..,,,,55? i f. H 4 I '-?11?t?if':3zrif?E . WN? J ,-p Q 2 t . -Q, - ' EL Q er E'K-H-H1 il i Y is made and history is written 41 y C71 , my i THECOLORS Nl 1.5 . . . u We are infinitely proud of our Q 5 E! l 5 men in the service. They are heroes, every one of them. Modestly, reluct- antly, and unwillingly, perhaps, some of them have given their stories their experiences, their impressions, to Caerulea. Here they are. They are the stuff from which fiction O Mr. Leonard G. Nattkemper, head of our oral expression depart- ment, who, during a leave of absence, is with the Y. 1Vl. C. A. Over There , has found the cheering and comforting of our boys a won- derful blessing. I left Paris as manager and player in an entertainment unit named The Strollers. We had a repertoire of five one-act comedies with a personnel of two women and three men. We began our barn- stormmg tour round Paris and then, by way of Chateau Thierry, to Toul. After establishing our headquarters in a village we would be driven by auto to the hospitals and camps in the immediate vicinity to entertain our boys. When our unit had covered a particular area We would move on to another village as our post of departure. We have been carrying out this program ever since leaving Paris, until we have now reached Luxemburg. Up to the present we have enter- tained approximately 50,000 men. We have had now and then the pleasure of using a modern stage in a modern theatre, but for the most part, with the help of the sol- diers, we improvise our own stage, the equipment consisting of boxes,