New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Rv Harriette Underhill

u.ans when the soldiers eat.
.,.o means what you get into when
nromise to go out to No Mans
I'd and interview William Farnum.
800 that is the way it looked to
~. morning of the great event.
~ course, time has softened our
...,ous. and, viewed in RETROSPECT
wy !, VAS quite a pleasant day. Some
! W. ~ vss even pleasant at the time
- .h. Arst part was quite un-
Ylssssnt' II, ot .nnrecia+s orr
...,,.s when we say that we had
U.s. .;ssd to be ready to start for No
& ws,. land at 10 o'clock, but, for US,
= had quite the sensation of going
- picnic at sunrise.
yor some strange reason our even
=. n.vsr really begins until after mid
''.h. and all of our truly brilliant
...,.. are written between IL and
~ So, after finishing up George
w.lah at 4:30, we had to arise at $3.50
:. \. ready to pursue William Far
.an at 10 o'clock.
%. did it, but not buoyantly, and
49,, at 1916 some one telephoned and
"a that the car had sprung leak
"a had to have new tire. AT IL
,.oek we started, going via Fort
4. and only stopping to pick up
u. man who carried a camera and
-. soinc to "do" Bill Farnum, too.
A. Fort Lee the 1908 REQ in which
=. we're bounding along sprang an
s.h., leak. So we stopped at Mr..
Yo,'. studio and got great Packard
,#h all new tires on 1t and started
:. dfty miles an hour for No Mans
Land
Aftsr we had been riding for about
h,H an hour the nice man suddenly
rmsmbered that he had left his
rp,ara. a 500 affair, in the old car.
a We all went back, frozen to death,
and cot the camera and started out
asaln. And then when we discovered
hat We had lost our hat (the big
hlsck one that Olga Petrova gave us)
ve we're glad that we hadn't acted tho
vay We felt when the nice man left
bis camera in the REQ.
We turned around again and found
the hat lying beside the road where
II had sneaked out of the car when
we weren't looking, and then we really
started for No Mans Land.
This particular No Mans Land is in
Harrington Park and that's all we
know about it. Mr.. Farnum is making
s war picture and he has trenches and
4 shattered trees and everything to
1 mako 1t look like the real article.
1 |. was all very interesting, but it
L Aiant chance to be noticed by us.
issas we drew up in front of No
INNS Land there, in front of US, was
fat iron thing on the ground and
udsrneath a fire was burning On
tse Of it were frying pans, and in
them were things which sizzled and
sent out wonderful odors.
A beautiful young man with pink
cheeks was taking roast out of the
iron thing, and after we tasted his
bread and his coffee and his creamed
peas We asked him if he was married.
He blushed and said NO" and that
be hadn't learned how to cook at home.
Just think, he has only known how
for three months! And then there
we're lot more handsome persons
called Kitchen policemen who waited
On one at the table-plank, rather-and
filed mp your tin mug with coffee
every time it got empty.
Mr.. Farnum sat next to US and
showed US how to drink so that some
Of the coffee went down your throat
instead Of down the neck Of your
hIcuss. It is rather difficult at first,
because the tin mugs have handles
that look like curb bits and are
curved. for some reason not percep-
nols to the lay mind.
at the plank with us were Frank
Lloyd and Scott Dunlap, the nice man
With the camera, and two wonderful
iooking officers who were terribly stern
with the "kitchen policemen" and ter
noly jolly with US. They were Captain
Games Proctor Egan and Lieutenant H..
q. haynes, Of the 1st Field Artillery.
iaey wore overcoats with scroley braid
VI tbs cuffs and hats with leather
swaps under their chins. Very be-
coming!
And after rlunch-mess-we all went
'ser to No Mans Land. 1t was hard
Anns, and William Fox owes US one
1Ack satin sport skirt, one pair .of
PUMPS one glove and nearly one head,
@'s machine gun went off while we