 Proudly we hail New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station for your army and your Air Force to bring you this story as proudly we hail the women's Army Corps our story is entitled my roommate Ruth this is the story of Sergeant Ruth Bailey who saw the world from Paris to the pyramids and she went the whole way first class private first class of the women's Army Corps our first act curtain will rise in just a moment but first here's a very important word to the young women of America and that word is opportunity consider the great opportunity that is open to you the opportunity to serve your country and yourself as a member of the women's Army Corps you'll find that in the Army there are over 300 kinds of jobs that you can fill and your army has the best technical training schools in the world to teach you how to do them because the women's Army Corps is a fast-growing organization your chances for advancement and promotion are wide open and for those of you with ambition and who can of course meet the high standards there's the opportunity to attend OCS and become a commissioned officer yes ma'am no matter how you slice it opportunity is waiting for you at your nearest United States Army recruiting station drop in today and get full details and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production my roommate Ruth have you ever gone into one of those old fashion general stores and read the sign you don't see what you want ask for it well my roommate Ruth must have swallowed a sign like that when she was a little girl back in antlers Oklahoma because no matter where she went in the women's Army Corps which means just about everywhere she'd ask the darndest people for the darndest things nine times out of ten she got what she asked for to the tenth time she got more than she bargained for but I'm getting ahead of my story just to show you what I mean about Ruth let me tell you about the time we were in Manila it was just before VJ day I come to think of it the first thing Ruth ever said to me was to ask me for something you got a tie I could borrow honey what'd you say you got an extra tie sure help yourself just don't take the new one though I'm saving it you just ship in with that gang from New Guinea yesterday that's us my name's Ruth Bailey hi I'm Dottie Jones welcome to camp carefree in the land of perpetual sunshine where you hail from Ruth antlers Oklahoma antlers yeah antlers oh go ahead say it say what you're an antlers girl doesn't that make you a real dear yuck yuck yuck hey if you're going to child I'll go along with you wait up aren't you awful dolled up just for the miss hall oh I got a pass I'm going to Manila and this heat what for you know see the site spice and souvenirs there is an old civilian proverb don't you know there's a war I ought to so so don't expect too much from Manila it's not exactly tidied up yet thanks for the tip but I think I'll take a look anyway when a girl rides the range in Oklahoma she doesn't mind a little dust and heat I don't have much to do this afternoon you mind if I tag along heck no honey but what about the dust and heat you ever been in a subway young lady no why well I'll tell you when a girl rides the subway in New York she don't mind a little heat and dust even under this tree gee honey if we keep stopping like this we're not going to see anything I hadn't noticed much left to see golly Ruth idea have to stop and talk to everybody well sure isn't that what we came to town for so hot hey Ruth you know what occurred to me what you go ahead and see whatever you want and I'll see right here my yourself sure I'll have a perfectly wonderful time I'll take off my shoes well if you really don't mind there is the governor's palace I'd like to say I really don't mind I'll be over there sitting on that bench and you can tell me so I sat and sat and sat sat some more and finally just as the sun was setting into Manila Bay and the evening breeze was rising not to mention my temper Ruth finally turned up well it's about time guess I'm a little late huh are you kidding I have been sitting here on this bench for three solid hours where were you well if you must know I was having lunch you were happy and I was starving to death all by myself I know I should have included you on the invite honey but he wanted me to come up right away I should have known there was a man in this somewhere how this happened well I called up and his secretary said you called a guy up Ruth Bailey you ought to be ashamed why I was only asking for the visiting hours visiting you mean this Joker's that popular now Dorothy you mustn't talk that way after all he is the president is the president if you'd only listen to me honey the man I had lunch with he's the president of the Philippines you mean to stand you had the president Ruth how could you do a thing like that honey what else could I do I already have my breakfast it was true all right Ruth had eaten lunch that day with a president of the Philippine Republic after that you couldn't pry me away from her I figured that if I joined up with a girl like that we'd really go we did all right from the Philippines to Hawaii across the Pacific through the canal zone a brief stop at Fort Dick's New Jersey across the Atlantic to Bremmerhaven and when we finally dropped our barracks bags it was in the hotel metropole Vienna there's some view look the Danube over there yeah and did you get a load of that lobby as we came in crystal chandeliers all that guilt on the ceiling marble floors yet and look at this room we've got to ourselves will you rugs curtains feather beds home was never like this of course you're doing well by us what do you think this bell pullers for one way to find out Ruth the rope was disconnected I see by your records that you're classified as a clerk typist what's your typing speed well let's see now Sergeant ma'am oh about 60 words a minute 60 words a minute that's fine Bailey how would you like to be the secretary to a general just like that why golly I'd love to make a try at it the general secretary is going home on points and he needs one right away report a general keys office at 0900 tomorrow morning that's all thank you sergeant oh a private Bailey yes sergeant I notice you've accumulated 60 days of leave during your Pacific tour of duty quite a lot isn't it well outside of Manila there just wasn't any place much to spend it in one coconut trees pretty much like another I imagine it must be well you will find plenty to see over here let me know when you want to begin using up some of that leave time don't worry serge I will you remember the session family that I grew up with back in the old country their boy Harold you met the summer we all came to New York he was over singing with the Vienna boys choir we haven't had a letter from them in five years we have written many times but never an answer here's the last address we have perhaps you could go there and make inquiries and then he starts it on rent control for him looks like another chocolate cake from home it is how can I stay on my diet when they keep sending me chocolate layer cake mom knows I can't resist chocolate layer cake don't worry Finney we'll be glad to keep you on your diet oh it's all right for you surely you can eat like a horse you don't gain an ounce it's not fair oh gee Ruth leave it to your family to hand you an assignment like that talk about a needle in a haystack you really know the family he's talking about sure I do golly I'll never forget Harold I must have been about eight years old that summer we came to New York and mama slipped my sister Louise and me all up and we went to the music hall I couldn't breathe it was so big and so elegant my and I thought the bees you back in antlers was rich-looking yeah know what you mean but what's this got to do with her oh I'm coming to that and then the gold curtains went back the whole orchestra came up out of the ground it's yeah pit and then there was Harold with his blonde hair curling over his choir boy collar singing of course there were a couple of hundred other boys singing too but I was sure I could hear him hit every note I wonder if he's still a soprano I hope not and that's all you saw oh no no we spent the whole time together that we were in New York mom was glad to get rid of me for a couple of days I remember he wanted me to teach him all the American slang words and you did yeah and Louise told mama some of the words too I still hurt when I think about it do I remember Harold well when do we start what if you think you're going to leave this girl home while you're out manhunting you've got another guest coming combine Ruth's enthusiasm with her indestructible arches and you have some idea of the ground we covered looking for a trace of the session family we didn't even wait for child that night but with a typewriter in still fresh right fingers we blew out of headquarters 48 46 40 there Dorothy that must be the house across the street I'm with you be the way this is it number 36 longer grasser well go on ring don't stampede me I'm ringing I hear somebody coming yeah good and talk for how pardon me but we're looking for some folks named session they still live here huh session session she's not deaf Ruthie she just doesn't understand English session nine nine kind session she does understand English how about it ma'am do you know anybody by that name nine anybody who might have left guess the answer is nine well what do we do now mom used to say that there's only one thing to do when you want to know something dotty you just ask I want you to know there are an awful lot of people to ask even in the allies first we ask everyone in the neighborhood the answer was always session nine and then we went around all the police districts the answer was always nine four line no one named session in this district finally we even got to asking a couple of the Russian officers that used to come up to headquarters then and as you might expect the answer was always yet what's the matter you unhappy gee I'm so discouraged all this looking and not one clue I don't know what to do neither one more line is gonna put me right behind eight four hey did you get that nine eight cute huh yeah nobody asked me but you know what I do if I were you route why I'd give up this search now wait a minute I don't mean for good I mean just for a while before this business really gets you down even the mess sergeant stopped me and asked me if you were sick turning down steak and onions last night she did well that was right neighborly ever well there's always one sure way to improve your appetite like my mother used to tell me go someplace where you can't afford the prices meaning what meaning now is the time for all good wax like us to go to Paris Paris why not we have enough accrued leave just think of it the shums illy say shopping the rude illy pay shopping the right bank shopping you know the idea sounds better and better every time you mention shopping I thought you'd see it that way and then if we have time we can go to Switzerland the Riviera or England or go to Scotland tomorrow morning you're listening to the proudly we hail production of my roommate Ruth will return in just a moment but first you know it's a matter of opinion whether the wax secretary is more efficient than the whack radio operator but it is a fact that the women's Army Corps is the best solution to many a young gals problem on how to get the most out of life yes ma'am whether you specialize in cryptography or become a technician in an army chemical lab you'll be doing interesting work and you'll be the pride of your family what you do will be important to America visit your local United States Army recruiting station today see what has offered for your benefit when you enlist in the women's Army Corps you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of my roommate Ruth did you say we are now I didn't say about your guidebook what does that say well according to this year map we've been swimming in the same the last half hold it a minute almost year we've been there which way is to channel number five nearly as much water gosh I wish the folks could see me now little Ruthie writing down the grand canal and a gondola with a handsome gondolier only one thing missing you know a date well yes but I'm in a song I'm gondolier supposed to be singing all the time so the guidebook say specialists home for the ladies soldiers that's the idea much I see I hadn't spent as much time among the coconuts as Ruth had I hadn't saved up quite as much furlough time so it's only from here say that I know about her other joints like the time she got a yen to ride horseback in the middle of Stockholm so she went up to a fatherly old man grooming his horse at a riding stable and ask him if she could take a ride and he said I think it can be arranged my dear and it turned out to be the king of Sweden and then there was the time she wanted to take a bath on a train to Trieste and oddly enough there was a bath tub aboard it wasn't until later she found out it'd been Eva bronze tub that wasn't strange since it had been Mr. Hitler's private train I don't want to give you the idea that being in the whack in those days was just a ball but once in a while it was definitely a picnic came in last week now she's living about two blocks away that's real I'll say with my luck my sister turned up in the same bear think together just like we were back in Oklahoma and me a captain and you a cook yeah but don't you pull your rank on me Louise Bailey I wouldn't dare I'm afraid you'll start calling me sir come on the two of you you'll have plenty of time to yak later I'm gonna eat those hot dogs myself if you don't worry come on Louise she means it Ruth promise me you won't laugh if I tell you something sure honey what is it you know until the other day I thought that the Vienna woods was just a wall that's trouse wrote remember the record we have of it at home here we are eating hot dogs right in the middle of it yeah I remember all right I remember the day you broke it how did it go now dad um dad um dad um bomb top on for a picnic today yeah is it your leg your arm here here let me help you sit down on this log here here I've got a handkerchief handkerchief I need a bath towel so I shouldn't have let you talk me into this talk you into it what you were the one that hold your face my face just a little mud probably no not mud that's the way it looked for a minute I I don't know it reminded me of someone are you often in the habit of examining young gentlemen's faces will be quiet as clean as I'm going to get let's get back a bargain to bargain okay I'm starved hop on with her luck she falls down in the mud and comes up with let's face it a husband I was her bright me of course she looked lovely and something old something new something borrowed and something khaki the something new was a sergeant strike leave it to the general to come through with a swell wedding present like that well the team pretty much fell apart after that and it wasn't long before I was transferred state side did I ever see my roommate Ruth again I sure did yesterday that's what made me think of the story in the first place there I was following my nose in the general direction of the whack mess hall when I heard that familiar voice behind me Eric's jet hey I'll talk to the CEO she's a pal of mine maybe you can get next to me full of extra strikes not bad huh mention this but how's Harold but he's in Europe oh gee what a shame Ruth he let a uniform come between you I hope to tell you he did honey I got him over here and what does he do he goes and joins the US on tired of the same old office routine okay gals now you can get away from it all join the women's Army Corps you can travel all over the world meet new friends see new places that's right in the women's Army Corps you can escape the humdrum routine of your present life visit exciting places in this country travel in Europe cross the blue Pacific cruise through the Caribbean make new friends among young men and women all over the world you'll have plenty of pleasure to enjoy those travels to plus a 30 day paid vacation each year plus many weekend passes and holidays why don't you join the whack yes indeed visit your local United States Army Recruiting Station today and talk it over with the friendly recruiting sergeant girls believe me you'll enjoy life more in the women's Army Corps this has been another program on proudly we hail presented and transcribe in cooperation with this radio station proudly we hail is produced by the Recruiting Publicity Center for the United States Army and the United States Air Force Recruiting Service this 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