European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 06, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Ill no. 6 March 6. J948 the Magazine of the stars and stripes editor Dick Jones associate editor Sterling lord John sharn1k Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval production chief Steven r. J. Lakos assistant editors arson Alwyn George John h. Powers Dan Regan Martha Salter Grace Schmidt. Chief photographers. Hans Hurmak Michael Vaccaro. Contributing editor Germany William b. Lee Russell Jones Dorothy Gies Arthur Noyes Joseph Fleming. Werner prym win fanning. Austria Ernie Reed. France Eugene Levin Morton Gudebrod. Italy Betty Luros. New York William Stuyvesant lieutenant colonel William m. Summers editor in chief article i renounced my u. S. Citizenship by Henry Martyn Noel i. Picture stories health fakes new arrival at the zoo. International school. Tokyo rockette. 2 4.ii is Istanbul . 17 sports fight dt7ty 1 features Charley Erlenkotter 23 sad sack. George Baker s cartoon 23 departments letters to the editor 3 Over the weekend a column by the editors those United states. By Bob Considine books. Notes and reviews movie review Green Dolphin Street. A. S. Zone release movie guide. Films now showing Over the weekend 4 17 20 21. In the past few weeks the directors of the Strube Bau Irmo building contractors have some times whether1 they were reconstructing the Lutr Trai Hospital in Kassel or holding an Ope House the Sec or the american press. Unconscious of the pfennig publicity potential of employing a voluntary do who had renounced his american citizen Sno True doctors were astounded when they first Xvi in j a flock of american reporters photog Raphord " news icel cameramen had converged on the Juis at the Hospital. Why he s been working there for six months one was heard to mutter obviously disillusioned with the usually Alert american press. For the men Wenthe Job the of Henry Noel has Bee none great Bonanza. Cig areas were to be had for the highly agreeable task of posing for Pic Tures with their famous colleague. The Foreman of course made out Best sine photographer insist Don bribing him to have Noel s bricklaying Ope aliens shifted to the sunny Side of. The building. Noel however Mads every Effort to minimize the interruptions to the reconstruction project stoically refused Cigar ets and other items of inducement. For weekend Noel consented to personally express his views on what has been dubbed the magnificent protest the insert picture shows Noel at work correcting Galley proof hustled Down to Kassel by a Low flying panel truck-7-of i renounced my . Citizenship Page 5 in his tiny room above the Hospital Pigsty. While he has turned Down most offers of food and help there is one thing he would Welcome. It probably too much to ask for then he hesitated and one had the impression he was expressing a Hope for the unobtainable but i d like to have a our senior. Associate editor or. Sterling lord has met the same acquaintances in More places in the. World than any Man in lower Hesse. It has be come routine for him though he never plans re unions to return from wherever his travels have taken him with the news that quite by coincidence he had bumped into Twenty three persons he had t seen since Wimbledon in 1946 or Miami Beach in Man without a flute 1943 or Grinnell in 1939. Switzerland was no exception and while in Geneva on assignment International school Page 11 lord found himself drinking a cup of Coffee across the table from Middle aged Man who in lord s own words looked strange but also after a few guarded glances the two discovered one another and lord realized that the Man whose name was Clark had refereed a doubles match he had played in the state invitational Tennis championships at the Brattle Joro Outing club in Brattleboro Vermont Back in 1935. One of the things contributing to their pleasant eve Ning together was the fact that Clark could t re member whether or not lord had won the tournament. During his visit to International school lord not Only met an old Friend but in doing so Felt that head at last proven to doubting fellow staff members that there really was a school out in Iowa called Grinnell College. While interviewing a Young Bru Nette lord subconsciously picked up a textbook started thumbing through it when he reached the front of the Book there in dark Blue Ink were the words. A. Grinnell. 46." tearing off the february Sheet of our office Calendar thoughtfully furnished us by the constabulary last week we were struck by quotation at the Bottom. It is from proverbs Vii 32, and reads he that Ruleth Over his spirit is better than he that Lakieth a we would t presume to Quarre with the quotation but at first we Felt we should Call the constabulary s attention to the possibility that some pacifist is Boring from within. Looking Over the res of the months and their quotations however we have decided that maybe it was just a slip up. May quotation obedience alone gives the right to com Mand Ralph Waldo Emerson and september s let your speech be always with Grace seasoned with Salt Collo sians in 6 sound More like the proper mottoes of up and coming Young troopers. T this week s musings and observations on state Side happenings those United states Page 4 come from the typewriter of Bob Considine who writes for ins. Bob has spent some time recent Yin the film capital looking from the outside in at the fabulous Folk of the movie Industry. Weekend s cover girls Are three members of theer nietes occupation Japan s counterpart of new York City s rockette. John Dominis took the Pic Ture of the japanese chorus girls during one of their performances at the Ernie Pyle theater , which incidentally just celebrated its second anniversary two weeks ago. For More pictures and the Story of the Tokyo gis favorite dancing girls turn to pages 15 and 16. Mers to the Rejto Trapp from Garmisch sir i believe this letter will be of som interest for you. You certainly know that Lovely spot in the bavarian Alps Garmisch Parten Kirchen or As the americans Call it the Shangrila Well nearly everyone who has come in touch with this place also knows a song every Day s a Holiday it is the theme of All the bands around Here and kind of an Anthem like i lost my heart in Heidel Berg and in Minchen Steht pm hoj brain hairs. Now Here s the Story behind that song three years ago a or. Scotty a. Rogers than 1st it. Of the 3rd .army and later on press and propaganda officer in Garmisch discovered that slogan. When first saw it on folder i Felt it would lae a Good idea for a song so i put some words around it set the whole thing to music added yodelling chorus and a new song was born. I played it the same night and this is what an american weekly then wrote about it. Ears suddenly perked up the other night. When Eric Trapp came Forth with a self composed song called everyday s a Holiday in till now the song is still going Strong and Many visitors took along copies and records of it As a recently i wrote the German ver Sion seder tag is Feiertag in Ger Misch and i Hope it will soon be a popular to my native Fellows As it Al ready is to american people Over Here. A great help will be the broadcasting of that song which now took place Over the an Munich and the German radio Minchen played by Helmut Zacharias Sung by Norman Dunlap. In the last March of dimes action the sum of about $53 was Given by u. S. Soldiers who wanted to hear Holiday in Garmisch Over the Here Are some facts about my self born 1906 december 18 in Stettin i have studied music for three years and carried on a career As pianist an bandleader in the entertainment Field besides i am not related to the Swiss Trapp family. In the years 1933 to 37i was on cruises around the world. I have been in the states new York los Angeles san Francisco and in some other parts of the world India China Japan Africa South America Hawaii after the War i came to Garmisch a place i Neve r. Lived in before. Here started playing in an officers club and i have done so Ever since at the hotel in other work s i wrote arc about 20c , two dozen orchestra pieces and two operettas. Known among americans Ai e some other smaller pieces with English words like have a Little drink Call again Spring time in the mountains Etc. As for my own taste in music i like the colourful Neo romantic works of Debussy Ravel , Proko Riaff Gershwin Puccini Etc. Orchestral Semi classics As played by Morton Gould and Andre Kostelanetz Are my special favourites among appreciate also the backgrounds to vocal recordings such As of Frank Sinatra Lena Home Maria Green Connie Boswell and others. It s my belief that this kind of music will live much longer than All the bebop and Boogie Boogie styles. Eric Trapp Garmisch Parten Kirchen
