Dear Diary,
Bob was at Camp Hood, Texas, tonight of course. He really spread it on thick for the old Lone Star State. When he said something nice about it, the boys cheered, instead of booing as they did in Arizona last Tuesday. When Fran came on, Bob said, “Isn’t it wonderful how tall the grass grows here in Texas?” Frances said, “Yes, but I still think you should get a room in a hotel.” Bob said, “I did stay in a hotel last night. You know the Baker in Dallas?” Well it was nice of him to let me sleep in one of his empty flour barrels.” I don’t know why, but I can’t remember his best gags. One thing that struck me funny was Vera Vague’s calling Bob the “Lampasas Jackass.” Bob added, “All local stuff.” They pulled several gags and did one song that I heard them rehearsing yesterday, but they also left out a lot of it.
Dear Diary,
Bob was at the Air Corps gunnery school at Kingman, Arizona, tonight, on the first stop in his latest tour of camps. He will broadcast from Camp Hood, Texas, next week. Virginia Bruce was Bob’s guest. Being in Arizona, they naturally did a western sketch. Bob and Skinnay sang a duet to the tune of “Jingle Jangle Jingle,” only instead of spurs, it was burrs. It seems that they backed into a cactus plant. Bob also said a lot tonight about Dorothy Lamour’s recent wedding. He said, “I guess Crosby and I will have to get a job now.” He also said that the pin which used to hold up Dottie’s sarong was in the Smithsonian Istitute with this placard, “Never before has so much depended on so little for so long.”
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