Photo A0286: Comedian Jack Benny is escorted from the Ernie Pyle theater stage by two military policemen, after members of the troupe reported he had been “soliciting” funds from the audience for another Tokyo shopping tour. The MP’s are CPL Billy McNamee (left) of Van Wert, Ohio, and SFC Henry Smart of Jacksonville, Florida, both members of Company D, 720th MP Battalion, Headquarters & Support Command, General Headquarters. The performance was conducted before a crowd of 4,200 U.N. patients and other civilian and military personnel in Tokyo, Japan on 23 July 1951. Official U.S. Army Photograph.