Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-12
NE SHOW!" "YEP bADWAY FOR M|NE''
hs From the Big Show Over
 k Enjoy the liome-Coming Well Given Soldiers.

York, Jan. 9.-"Some shown
 Broadway for mine.'
 Fans of the "big show" over bnd, incidentally. veteran and |hat blase first nighters of thea berformancns given within hear fbn crash of battle, a fisherman- Rom Maine and a Kansas farmer, lively sergeant and corporal in kited States Army, were talking F as a midnight train bore them kn evenings amusement in New ko a nearby debarkation camp. | several score of their com- guests of the War Camp Com Service, which had provided tra tickets for a star attraction metropolitan dramatic season, lad enjoyed one of the numerous es of the welcome to homecom- bops conducted by this organiza- Backed by a fund of S900,000 briated for ii sWOrk iii the imme- future in this vicinity, the War has arranged an attractive pro- |of entertainment covering the Is of debarkation and intended, |oiiyng evidence of the cOuntry's eiation of it's soldiers sacrifices hbat the most insidious enemy ly mOrale-lOneliness.
 ing year or more of constant of scene--from cantonment to |ort. to training camp abroad
 hardening" trenches, to bat rest billets and back into the lgain-the American soldier, the Camp directors say, has develop an extreme degree. Where do from here?" habit. Returned to |soil in the proces sof demobili- it is inevitable, they ce-
 that he will chafe over de- h at a debarkation camp. To this situation the organization les theatre parties, automobile meals and sleeping accommodate for men on leave in New York, for the bed ridden wounded in barkatiOn hospitals almost daily ailments are given by players the leading Broadway product
 appearing on professionally ,ed stakes ill the wards.
 New York War Camp makes it. cit as a "cheer up" agency for yard bound troops as soon as transports enter the harbor. It's ies continue until the returning star for he demobilization can nts, when other branches of this 'yWide organization, which is to e approximately S2O, 100000 of nited War Work Fund take up six which leads eventually to tie IS hearthsides.
 reeted by Citizens Committee. le of the earlier contingents. Id as they came up the bay by itizens' Committee aboard a pol pat and by choruses of sirens were skeptical rcgaro- e material side of their welcome. ey give us an official 'how-dye- ut what does that get us?" was of "doughboy' and his ldes nodded assent.
 ir first moment ashore was one lightenment. The pier was pla- l with announcements Of the weekly vaudeville
 to which Your uniform is your
 and at the cantonment the men
 War Camp Workers waiting em, circulating information con- lg the organizations numerous ms ill New York and arranging their officers for various types e entertainment. As a result the rs' typical Let's go" found outlet.
 Keep 'em smiling" the War
 distributes every week among led troops, along with other sold sailors and marines within the
 gates, 10000 tickets for the metropolitan shows, many of donated by theatre owners; it in the port hospitals six or
 entertainments a week, with lway actors and actresses as vol r performers, it conducts in the attan Opera House every Sunday loon a continuous vaudeville per- lnce, to which American and uniforms give admission: it pro-
 every Sunday, and whenever ole during the week. automobile seeing tours for 300 to 800 wound