The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-22
CROWD WAS STIRRED
BY PATRIOTIC APPEAL
BY CHAPLAIN MOODY
Regimental Band Participated and Barre
Talent Presented "The Girl From
Broadway" at the Opera
House Last Night.

Barre in the double role of welcoming
the regimental band of the Headquarter;
company and applauding the patriotic
! efforts of a capable home talent company
in the musical comedy, "The Girl From
Broadway" again stressed its patriotism
last evening when a large crowd, after
listening to band concert in City
square, gathered in the opera house for a
program that included music by the
band, music by the players and the or
chestra, and stirring Red Cross and re-
cruiting speeches by Chaplain Paul d.
Moody of the LIST Vermont regiment.
Proceeds from the musical comedy, which
will be repeated for the same purpose
this evening, will form a nucleus for a
G company fund similar to the fund
which Barre raised for its first unit, the
Headquarters company, at the beginning
of the war.
Under command of Sergt. Roscoe Mac
Iver, drum major of the band, the regi-
mental musicians arrived in the city
over the Central Vermont railroad at
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The same
train brought to the city Chaplain Moody
and Lieut.. Fl. P. Shaw, Capt John F.
Sullivan of c company having been de-
tained at Fort Ethan Allen by examina-
tions. The soldier musicians formed in
line at Depot square and paraded North
Main street, playing the while. All along
the line crowd which gathered as if
by the wave of magician's wand cheered
the soldiers heartily and cheering gave
them their first assurance of a warm
welcome. 1t was the first appearance of
the band since it paraded in the Italian
American patriotic parade of May 10
and it was a matter of comment wher-
ever the musicians marched that their
Plans have been made for entertaining
the detail until Saturday morning and
the soldiers will figure prominently in
the repetition of "The Girl From Broad
way" tonight.
For nearly an hour preceding the mi
tial appearance of the amateur thespians
at the opera house the band played pa
triotic and popular airs in the park. A
large gathering OF people overran the
greensward during the early part OF the
concert and midway of the program was
found to be sharing the thoroughfares
with automobiles on all contiguous
streets. At $50 the curtain went up
on the first act of the musical comedy.
Thereafter the evenings program was
to be interspersed with Chaplain Moody's
appeal for the Red Cross and for G com
pany and with selections by the band.
A Gordon of 20 young women attired as
Red Cross nurses figured conspicuously |
IN boosting the Red Gross campaign and |
while the regimental band, drawn up in
inc on the stage was playing between |
.he second and third acts. the campaign |
,rs circled about the theatre with pledge |
ards. IL was one of the novel features |
If Red Cross week in Barre and the re- |
'ults were altogether gratifying. The |
musicians were greeted in whole hearted |
ashton on that occasion and again when |
hey topped the finale with the national
Inthem while the entire audience stood
It attention.
Chaplain Moody was introduced by
!. Hollister jackson between the first |
nd second acts, the chairman improv-
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