The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-09
HITCHCOCK KNOWS
HOW TO VII A WAR
Says He WIN First Froiic and Then
FIGHT for Allies. But Wants Big
2 Expedition to Help Russia.
"HrTcHY-koo" GOING AWAY.
First Part of March VIII Find Great
Revue on Way 10 Biverpool---Rich-
mond Audiences VIII Miss Come
dian This Year.

Richmond playgoers win not get an
puuurr;1-7f-y- to sec Raymond Hitchcock
this season. That Is, not unless the
great comedian chan ges his plans and
decides not TO so TO Europe. lie Is
not going to fight. not at the start, but
the company which helped him 20
make "lIItGhy- Koa'4 ane- q the great
est musical plays ever offered on Man
haitian Island, is 20 accompany itlm
to the London music halls. Hitchcock
was seen in Richmond late last season
in Betty Raymond IL 'at dressed
-Up," but he-has some place 10 60
now.
Below you will find what the New
York folks think about It:
Raymond Hitchcock, comedian by
profession but patriot above every
thing. has actually begun the task Of
raising a brigade for service against
Germany. ffe rs BOOKED for 4 Ion
don engagement next year. and with
the entire cast and production Of
''Hitchy- Koo." will sail for Liverpool
the first of March. By that tlme he
hopes TO have brigade Of 3 600 oil
gihle and eager American soldiers
ready to accompany his already per
fected theatrical expedition
But Hitchcock has other and larger
plans for the defeat of Germany and
the swift and complete triumph nj the
allies He is very serious about the
matter and has given the war, its
causes and consequences more thought
than many a more serious minded
man.
I'm determined To raise that hri-
gade" he says m Hot aiming to
be a brlsadier- general uor anything
like that but I'm going 70 he with
that brigade in one capacity or an-
other. In fact, III % on she western
battle front next year. whether the
United States government viii take me
or not For one thing. I'm going TO
present this show. 'Hitchy- koo.' free
for the soldiers OF the allies for four
months along the trenches tn France.
I expect to have nay brigade at the
front by that time and in training for
actual fighting, too, as soon as theS Il
let me
How to Win the War"
1.-THE United States can win this
war for the allies beyond the question
OF the shadow of a doubt" continued
Mr.. Hitchcock, and the beginning OF
the end of the struggle win come when
this country starts to cooperate with
Russia not across the continent 81
Europe, hut by sending an army TO the
Russian front 10 stand shoulder "a
shoulder with the wsfvefiff 51ff5fF ei
that new republic.
There is no other front whore this
moral as well as the physical force oi
the United States army can be rsec
with better and swffter effect than ba
sending a great military expedition Il
fight with Russia against the German:
on the eastern edge of the war. The
expedition to France IS of mighty i'm
portance and may he sufficient f1nall1
TO win the war. but q similar Ameri
can expedition should he sent acros
tho Pacific and via the Trans Siberian
railway. rushed 10 the aid and enrour
agement OF the forces of republican
Russia.
IF a third expedition from tn.
United States could h. projected int
the southern European theatre Of th'
war" he continued Il believe III,
Simultaneous operations Of all three IL
concert with our allies on al front
would quickly end the war with thS
complete overthrow Of the kaiser ans
hts Austrian and Turkish allies Mean
while, we are not Mt war with Austria
but the Russian expedition is feasibl,
and IL would have n tremendous mora
effect upon the Slav army II sent in
time"
CheckmatInc the Kaiser,
Anything that is fair IN 81 chess
game IL fair in war" continued tbs
patriotic Hitchcock, 'and have tbs
belief, founded upon important anf
authentic information. that at ieasf
one of the nations now hooked up with
Germany can be brought over to the
side Of the allies, That coup, II ac-
omplished--and it can be accom-
plished--would break the backbone
Of the central alliance and hasten the
end OF the war The United State.
cal pan 4his stunt too. and IL would
cost less than "a year Of war"
AFR. Hitchcock resents the idea that
- show business and the war bust.