Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Coast Guard training station, Manhattan Beach, New York, is a tough one with a full schedule; recreation is not neglected. Dances and singing take up most of the leisure in the evening. Homer Smith, tenor of the noted radio Southernaires Quartet, is director of the Manhattan Beach Choral Society, composed of white and colored enlistees. He is shown rehearsing part of his group. Also shown is James O. Lewis, another well-known Negro entertainer, who has charge of dancing and entertainment for the Negro personnel at Manhattan Beach