Command, Performance

Few Corporals ever get to see the Commander in Chief, let alone meet him, but that was the good fortune of Corporal Irving Engelman '28. Perhaps you read about the one-night stand of the show "The Army—Play by Play" at the 48th Street Theatre in New York on June 14 under the auspices of John Golden and the 2nd Service Command, and know what a smasheroo it was.

Engelman played the lead in one of the skits, "Button Your Lip" which Burton Rascoe in the World-Telegram said was "one of the funniest skits I ever saw in my life. It has to do with a rookie who is suspected of being a saboteur and on whom the rumor i hung, also, that he is Myrna Loy's boy fiiend. The part was played expertly by Cpl. Irving J. Engelman, who has a great comic gift."

Subsequently, the play was taken to Hyde Park for a Command Performance before the President and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. "It was all very exciting," said Engelman, especially going to Hyde Park, and having Mrs. Roosevelt herself play opposite me in place of Myrna Loy who was ill, and having her thank me for contributing so much to the President's enjoyment for which she was so grateful because he hadn't really enjoyed himself—with real belly laughs—for such a long time." Cpl. Engelman is a member of Head- quarters Co., and Signal Corps Training Regiment, Ft. Monmouth, N. J.