New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15

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The performance was given three times in
two days, lasting three hours each time, and
without a hitch. No crowd was allowed to
collect about the hall for fear the Boches
aviators might possibly drop bomb on US
or signal their batteries 70 lombard that
point.
The quality and tone Of the whole per-
Torrance speaks for itself-most elevating
know of no salon, presided over by any lady
of my acquaintance, where one might hope to
assist after dinner at such manifestation
of art and good taste. But IL might be added
also that nothing is too good for these fine
fellows, while anything almost is good enough
for us.
While the artists were not doing their turn
they circulated around among the different
what might be called barracks all in the
Dunes. Each barrack contains about fifty
men and they are disposed very much like
lumber camp. The visiting took place be-
cause so many of the good chaps had no show
of ever seeing anything. owing to the limited
size of the hall. The scenes | witnessed
were most touching and picturesque. No
lights were allowed. but somehow. a few
candle butts appeared and then the enthu-
siasm supplied the rest. ! accompanied
Zambelli to one of these huts, and there in
a space ten feet by ten, dressed in mos.
charming Alsatian ballet gown. she danced,
accompanying herself with song until
thought she would drop, while from every
bunk and rafter peered the smiling face Of
some good Poilu, incapable of believing his
eyes. After her first little effort one OF the
men came TO me and said: "If madame will
permit me / should like to place my cloak
for her to dance on, because | am afraid as
she is now dancing on the bare floor toto
might approach her" "a toto" is the af-
fectionate designation for one of those little
animals from which these habitations are
sometimes not entirely freeD
1t was all delightful and simple and whole
some, and more respectful and apprecia-
tive audience was never assembled.
The next day was scheduled to visit Nieu-
port-les -Bains, and after having had my hat
replaced by a helmet / was led many ko-
metres underground, occasionally humping
my head against the rafters, until
out upon a spot where the marmites were
falling in such profusion that no one was
allowed nor cared to show his head. I
ventured, however, to take few hurried
glimpses of this charming lttl. seaboard
town, consisting exclusively of villas stu
ated on the Dunes, not one of them intact
many demolished, not a soul about--it is
indeed a weird, weird sight. Desolaton
where one expects to see the movement and
enthusiasm Of life, of youth--women in their
gay gowns, children building their ever to
be demolished castles in the sand-the great
parasols shetering the tea party, tennis, and
all that goes to make June delightful on
the seaboard away from the hot and strug-
Cling city.
During the lulls | ventured my head out
of my breathing hole. The temptation to
crawl out and take a photograph was in
tense, so as to be able to communicate to
you, better than | can by words, the atmos-
phere of the place. Back of US were our
76s and 120s, most comforting TO listen to
but every once in a while, somewhere not very
far off, there was the detonaton of an ex-
plodng Boche shell and for a moment after
ward the air was filled with the shrl
shrek of the fragments seaching for a mark.
1t is the most dsagreeabe and distress
ing sound know.