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USAF - "OPERATION HAPPINESS"
OFFERS TOPFLITE ENTERTAINMENT

Catchy melodies, lavish costumes, topflight MC-ing and talented performers are by-words for "Operation Happiness," the United States Air Forces' 85 airman variety revue of fun and laughter. Now in its fourteenth consecutive week, the show represents the USAF's first postwar venture in the field of entertainment, and is the forerunner of a planned series of such entertainment features to be carried to Air Force installations throughout the Continental United States and in overseas commands.

An Air Force Show from curtain rise to curtain fall, "Operations Happiness" runs for a fun-packed hour and fifteen minutes during which its performers cavort behind the footlights with professional skill in a shifting pattern of production numbers. Every man-jack - and WAF too - of cast, stage crews and lighting specialists are drawn from the corps of men and women staffing the 332d Fighter Wing at Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus, Ohio.

Variety numbers ranging from comedy to magic and from swing to symphony fill the show's running time. Among the feature numbers which highlight the parade of talent and performers, none offers more of a listening treat than Private First Class Ivory Mitchell's smooth transition from boogie to Bach and his stirring rendition of the Warsaw Concerto.