Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-05
MISS WILSON'S
CONGRESSIONAL
HIT WITH YANKS


concert tours de luxe and concert
tours in which the artists aroused
quite a furore among the mystically
inclined and also among those to
whom the fame of the individual was
sufficient to arouse interest, but the
tour of Miss Margaret Wilson, daugh-
ter of the President, through the dew
astated area of France, singing to the
American soldier boys waiting to come
back home, is probably the most
unique in history.
In the uniform of Y M. C. A. en-
tertainer, Miss Wilson has sung in Y.
NJ. c. A. huts, in hospitals and in the
open air, giving sometimes as many
as four concerts daily. She has trav-
ersed the country from Paris to Ver-
dun, singing sometimes with a big
packing box for stage and with a lit
tie folding organ furnishing her &C
compartments. Wnen Inc Boys
Come Home" seems to have been the
favorite song of her entire repertoire,
for the boys always insisted in joining
in on the chorus, much to Miss Will
sons delight. At the close of each pro-
gram she distributed smokes" to the
boys in khaki, with a personal word
to each young chap as he filed past
At base hospital near Toul she
sang to an audience of about 1000
men. Her dressing room was a screen
ed off corner of the hospital theater
ard her dressing table was an up
turned box holding a small mirror
fianked by couple of Pickering can
dies. During her stay at the front Miss
Wilson made her headquarters at
Nancy and the residents showered her
with attentions. Little girls wearing
the quaint head-dress of that particu
lar section and with their odd little
slack velvet bodies laced very precise
1y brought flowers to her rooms, while
the project of the department, Mon
sieur Mirman, extended every posi-
BILE courtesy.
When the armistice was signed the
citizens of Nancy held fete in cele-
bration of the cessation of hostilities
and Miss Wilson took a prominent
part in the festivities. She was oblig
ed to respond to innumerable requests
to sing and orations by French speak
ers Landed the Allies, the President of
the United States his talented daugh-
ter and the Y. NJ. C. A. trip through
the st. Mihiel seC}or was made the day
following the celebration and Miss
wilson was given an opportunity to
see the terrific devastation wrought
by the Germans, She was deluged
with all sorts of souvenirs presented
tv the soldiers-German helmets,
wrist watches, field glasses and
even pistols.
One of the most remarkable of her
corccrts was given in TIE ST Mihtel
area. in a theater built by the ',or-
mans for the entertainment of their
officers At Houdricourt, where ruins
mark the site of one of those pictur
esque little French villages, she sang
to one Of the most famous military or
CARNATIONS in@@he American army, one
that bore the brunt of one of the hot
test engagements of the last days of
the W.T.
Miss Wilson's concert tour is one of
many entertainment features being
staged by the Y. NJ C. A 70" the bene-
fit of the soldiers overseas. Artists
of established reputation ore being
routed through the district in which
American troops are stationed and
will continue to give concerts and
theatrical performances as long as the
boys remain in Europe.