Several times a year the stage and auditorium of The Last Resort would resound with the sylings of actors, musicians, comediens and/or bands. Sometimes, the performers were residents of Yang Chiseh Airbase. Other times they could be individuals or ensembles from within Fourteenth Air Force (China) or elsewhere within the China-Burma-India theater.
The "Entertainment Performance Unit" (E.P.U) for the China Burma India theater was established by Capt. Melvyn Douglas, noted former screen actor then serving as Special Services officer, Headquarters U.S. Forces in CBI. He acted when it became obvious that professional entertainment would be lacking in the CBI. Capt. Douglas then recruited talent from bases within the CBI. Many former professional entertainers and highly talented amateurs volunteered and were chosen as members of several different productions developed by the E.P.U. At least one of the productions then performed in every sweat box and mosquito trap within the Theater. Not only variety shows, but regular full-length plays were among the varied entertainment offered by the E.P.U.
Promoted to Major, Douglas was in the U.S. recruiting more talent when V-J Day arrived. Part of the rapid demobilization, he never returned to Eastern Asia, however, the E.P.U. he created continued to function up to the closing of the India-Burma Theater in April 1946.
