The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-20
Boys Of Camp Upton Make Ire
mendOus Hit in Mill
aa tary Skit.
IRVING BERLIN A LION
Young Soldier Wins New
Laurels as Author and
Composer.

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little Russian who rose 90 Quickly from
the position Of waiter in NiGker Mikes
cafe In Peli street to that OF millionai ire
writer OF songs. But IL IL doubtful II
he ever knew q moment quite like that
which came last night when the people
that fiiled the Century Theatre from the
footlights to the topmost gallery cheered
themselves hoarse at sight OF Irving Ber-
lin. drafted soldier. new made sergeant
creator and star Of ZIP. Ytp. Yaphank,"
! which had its premier there.
II was a friendly audience TO begin
| with, obviously made up OF mothers and
wives and sweethearts and fathers and
| uncies and cousins OF Camp Upton boys
| most of them escorted by the boys them
| seives. Wonderful how so many of them
got lesve--it seemed rs all the camp
that wasn't or tire stage was in from, of
II. A friendly audience--but IL u had
been quite the reverse at the start It
must have been won over.
A Real broadway sascess.
Whether 1t was Sergeant Berlins
yeenius--he wrote the words and music
and the whole production was under his
rersonal 6irection--or whether Uncle
Sam hiss somehow gathered at Yaphank
| bunch Of top notch singers, dancers,
fact that nrst n,1n, t,n'as =, so ,.a
| military mess cooked IN NV The hoys
| of Camn Irnton, ana nres.rt.a IN o,d..
| to establish a Community house Tor the
mothers and wivee a nd .wee,hearts u,bo
4 visit the csamp was a Ionx shot hett.,
| than MANY a Rroadway snccss. ~ nest
years.
It's truism that a cantonment is a
little world in itself. also that it is the
n.n,as a.. ~ e
yanhanI" or a. i,,,,r,,,.,'
,na ,.,,.r g., Tn Piooi q.
ma n.s 20 800 O.. -. A,
60, ~ , ~ pm mere lor .ile
,e 80 a., o Inv eIery meinoer
man sn an us'hhs 10 WHIP tne Ger
m mans -. " 4u 70 see .he ooiy sisters
cho-u. .;nsin. 20 sH,,N ana .ne JAZZ
chorus singing ana oeling In their beau
'eoes costumes last night you'd have
~ ensl tnelr most enfeient way to Kill
OH Frta would De just 10 appear before
nun IN those costumes and let him die
however probably that wouldn't work
me men VINO bomb babies and bayonet
women wouldn't nave the fre md in
noeent sense OF humor to APPRECIATE the
1"n.s nose eareoevit iads from Camp
Cpton dio last night and are going to
go on doins Tor some days at the Cen
Jury 1neatre.
Inc hrst act was tho Camp Upton
Ahstren. Tier on tier OF fresh faced
Iaos IN thetr uniforms. Just privates and
maybe lew sergeants. singing and
eSayins Win vivid determination to
oney the admonition their Captain gave
them when he dashed on the stage to
s,art me show. ...---1
Out there IL the enemy" ne yelled.
swlnglng mis- arms In the direction OF the
auu'eHce Al them. boys-surround
then. capture them! Much Of yonr am-
the top. boys, pierce them with Jokes
bows d,aoo onen' ,h win sines And the
One ~ tha bus T., ~" III '"em.
quartet sung TO the t,nn' =, .pa sass
III Am Groutpp ora. 80 Us
chorus was. "
Yes, my darling an, mn, too o,,
IT am onlv tventy-tbras WV 0'''
There's no silver in the .o,d
And the draft ia after mo
Many were the merry tests ai,,sd NJ
the draft. Did ire DRAFT Oct bir,, o., 49,
interlocutor inquiries OF the tnagro snd
! man. who Is telling how his brofher 10
30 smart that after only thraa doys a.,
| the army he was p'omoted 70 hs a corr,.
martial-"Dii the draft cat hin, o..
did II miss anyb body 90 asks tns min
| strel. Those minstrels In their gorgeors
red and green satin costumes deserye a
special word. It's a question WHETHER
Private Clark, the fat one. or private
Bob Higgins, the lean one was the altar
The programme doesn't saw wehther pri.
vate Clark was a profe ssionaI dancer ne
fore the draft rot him" but xh.n Iva
did a pigeon wing souattipr tho wov ~
real dancers can only do after wear. m
drilling, the audience decided that aop,a
stage was certainly robbed when IInci.
Sam took him for a soldier.
Wedding Was n scream.
Private IJ,soi,s v,o, ,,,,
olav. -Four soIdIars Nh 80 ~, tue
! TO shoot him FOR nring ~ anas IN VI, VI,
missed him. and he eac,nad 20 49,, 80
the marriage NET. Tha w.ad,nn -.
| celebrated right there and ,ya. ona =, 10
funniest things OF the whole sven,ns
| Private Howard Friend was the hride
| in a lovely white lace dress ana hsr train
| WAS held by the only four mamb.rs ~
| tho cast not from Camn I-ntonN-Sonr
funny little picininnies who erinned ~
II they were having the time of their
little lives. Maybe they are from the
| camp-maybe they are the camp mas
cots Why doesn't the programme saw
Well. from scene to scene n e nonsense
| went on. There was a love interes, d,,e,
in which Private Brennan ss an amor,
| GUS boy and Private Higgins as a si,I T.,
wonderful purple dress looked into
each others eyes md sang abont how
they'd have a little home in yontars
where they'd teach the narrot ,o 60, az
,oy. ,,o,,u ..s 49, " es'