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ACTOR IS NOW
INSTRUCTOR ()F
G. I. POLICE
# FORT RICHARDSON. Alaska—
Bucks county to Alaska via the
U. S. Army, is the route taken by
former Broadway, Hollywood and
Bucks County actor, 1st Lt. Thom
as L. Coley, son of Major and Mrs.
T. L. Coley, Moreland Road.
Beth ay res, Pa.
Lieutenant Coley, now officer
in charge <?f the Alaskan Depart
ment Military Police School here,
in pre-ration summers was team
ing with Haila Stoddard in such
Bucks County Playhouse produc
tions as “Yes, My Darling
Daughter,” “The Royal Family”
and “Our Betters.” New Hope
theater-goers also saw him oppos-!
Posite screen star Betty Field in
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“Coquette,” stage star Lencre Ul
ric in “Personal Appearance.”
“Sure 1 miss it,” said Lieuten
ant Coley the other day. but
running a school lo train MPs
for all Alaska doesn’t leave a
guy much time for pining. Wc
start a ne w class every month and
give the men three weeks of in
tensive military police training.
All the officers on our staff are
Officer Candidate School grad
uates and we pattern this school
after our GI alma maters.”
As a civilian, Lieutenant Coley
graduated from Washington and
Lee University in 1935, descended
on New York in time to appear |
with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon
tanne in their production of “The
Taming of the Shrew.” He spent i
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m some hall' dozen other Broad
way productions, d d a stretch in
Hollywood for Paramount, and
reported breathless to his draft
board in June of 1941.
As a GI, Lieutenant Coley was
graduated from Infantry Officer
Candidate School at Fort Ben
ning, Ga., in August, 1942. No
stranger to the Army, he spent
his childhood on various Army
posts where his father. Major T.
L. Coley, 17. S. A., retired, was
stationed Grammar school in the
Philippines, high school in Pana
ma and college in Virginia, pre
pared him in well rounded fash
ion for a theatrical career.
“Nothing really prepared me for
my fling in the movies though.”
said Lieutenant Coley, grinning
i ployed the part of a mineral
ogist who was reduced to 13 in
ches in height by a mad scientist
I ran all over some of Holly
wood’s biggest sets in a sarong.
i he picture was ‘Dr. Cyclops’ and
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just hope my MP’s never saw it.’
i he MP s are no w Lieutenant
Coley’s prime concern. This month
marks the third anniversary of
the corps of Military Police end
the fifth month that the Alaskan
Department Military Pol.ce School
ha: been in existence.
“We’re going to mark the c:ou
ole brthday with some innova
tions on our blitz course which we
bin'll in the woods to test the
MP’s reaction to combat situa
at ons. We give them more trou
ble than even H pywood could
dream up Our birthrAy celt ora
tion will be plenty noisy,” he.
added
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