Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-30
VAUDEVILLE GIRLS
Make hit IN ENGLAND
Goodness of Eight American
Girls During Air Raid on Lon
don Attracts Attention.

London. (by mail)-When the air
raid warning came. the of IA
west End theater stepped out on the
stage TO that all who liked
might stay in h theater for shelter,
although he would not be responsible
for any accidents. Loud explosions of
bombs followed his last word.
Though London has become bomb
broken to air raids, on this occasion
some of he people jumped up and
started for the doors without waiting
to put on their hats and coats. The
orchestra disappeared as if by magic.
But h performers in the musical
act that had been Interpolation it
was a vaudeville theater-took II
tighter hold on their comets and
trombones and blared out in the jig
giest, hoppingest ,ag-time music that
The performers didn't. They marched
down into the aislcs. still playing.
People sa. down, deciding they were
in for an adventure.
The vaudevinists were these eight
American girls: Cora ~Youngblood
| Corson. Graycia Acton and Ida Nun
dell, all of Anadarko. Okla; Leila
Myers. Kansas City. KAN; Olive and
Ethel Hiatt. Newcastle, Ind; Gladys
Cronk, Norwalk. Wis; Simonne and
Charlotte Hamel, Hamilton, Neb.
When they shifted from raK-time
into patriotic airs of the allies, the
theater shook with cheers that
drowned out the sound of the gun
ming and bombing. for the raid was
| soon ut it's height. Other performers
on the program came down from the
| stage and san to the accompaniment
Of the girl troupe.
At the finish of one of the songs a
man i'm the audience jumped up on his
| e and proposed three rousing
cheers for the example of GOODNESS that
| had been shown them. as we'll as Tor the
| best entertainment he had eve en-
loved. The cheers came with a roar.
| They reverberated again when an
American friend OF the girls rose and
| informed the audience that the girls
! were coins through their first air RAID.
zone Of the girls-Miss Cronk. n of
the prettiest of the eisht-was missing
for a time. n s"on returned, p1es.'-
less and laughing, carrying something
carefully in her handkerchief. 1t was
a piece of s~hrapasel that she picked up
in the street. And j got it while it
was sti1l hot. too she proudly OBJ
served. Say. this is almost as good
as the Fourth of July in Norwalk. wis.
More Daughter and cheers from the au-
diencc which was nov croWding around
the girls in the parquet.
The trcup is ahNious to go to France
and entertain the British and Ameri-
can soldiers. provided they can play
close up to .he front lines. They have
become so popular here that they are
booked ahead in London n theatels
, throughout Britain for nearly two
Years, at salaries half again as much
as they received in America.
The life OF a music hall artist tEn-
gli~h for vaudevillian) is all roses over
here. There are few matinees and no
Sunday performances. On Sunday
mornings two of the Young women go
to the Eagle Hut. the big American
Y. NJ. e. A. center IN London. and lead
the hymns oS their comets. Last Sun
day night they gave n concert at the
AldNych theater, he Australian y.
NJ. G. A. place OF amusement. where all
allied soldiers and sailors are admitted
free.
Stage door Johnnics are a thing i'm
known in England. it seems" said Miss
Cora Y~oungblood Corson. the eader
of the troop. That's why It seems so
strange to coorkeepers that we get
| so many flowers and invitations to din
ners. Our J%o:lnnies are the soldier
and sailor boys Of Uncle Sam. When
they see ON The program that we're
American they want to be chubby right
off"