The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-04-13
"S|TT|N' PRETTY" To
Be BIG HIT
American Legion Com
edy Next Monday Ey ng
Sk0nllegan People Urged TO Buy Tie
kets Early For Presentation
BY Local Artists


Few cities and fewer towns can
boast as fine a Municipal Building as
ours. There's hardly an opera house I
in Maine To equal it. But once year.H
when Simon Peters Post of The Le- !
gion, has its show, the seemingly ap- /
parent seating capacity is entirely in /
adequate. One couldn't expect il to /
seat all the men and women voters on
Town Meeting Day, but YOU Just nat
urally would expect that everyone /
who wants 10 see the annual Leeion
show could be accommodated Last
year, there We're nearly two hundred /
tickets sold i'll excess of the regular
number of seats and it WAS necessary
to put in chairs and settees to take
care of them. There wasn't Il seat to
be had for the usual transient theatre
goer at the box office the day of the
show. 1t seems apparent that this
year will show the same eNcos5 OF de-
mand over supply. Therefore your
correspondent respectfully urges all
good citizens TO get busy at once. and
provide themselves with tickets Tor
tie musical comedy, "Sittin Pretty"
next Monday night. The bob Office at
the opera house will be open for the
exchange of tickets for reserved seats
and the original sale of seats Friday
and Saturday morning FROM nine until
noon.
SIT TIN PRETTY is sure To be al
big hit. The lines are witty. the situ-
ations are literally splitting, and
the music is the sort you just can't
heln whstling. If is, Of course, an
army production, both the book and
the songs We're written by a dough
boz in France. 1t depicts the scenes
after the signing Of tie Armistiee
which every overseas man will re
member existed wherever he was i'm
patiently waiting to be deloused and
1nmigateh and hoiled up. and bcst of
all paid. prior To being ordered 10 that
glorious place called home. All the
acts are laid in Red Cross hut in
the Toul Sector where 50 many Yanks
got their first taste Of trench war-
fare. and where our own Yankee Di-
vision, Immediately after its glorious
performance on the Chcmin des
DANES. relieved the First Division in
the spring of 1918. The Tonl Sector
WIS the first sector occupied by the
first Division as complete division,
and when the New Englanders came
10 relieve them they were convinced
that they had yietoriously participated
in one of the great engagements OF
the Wal OF course we all know now,
that utmost secrecy WAS maintained
and The men of one division knew
nothing of what and where another
division was engaged Imagine, then.
the conversation between II" men OF
the outgoing and incoming outfits. \
First Division regular would Yell TO Il
Yankee. What you all coming in here
for this haint no National Guard job,
this is real soldier stuff And the
doughty Pine Tree slater would re
ply: oh. we've been in real fight.
and old Black Jack has sent us back
here TO get rested up" Then the men
Woul sail into each other and show
the Frenehmen what real fist fight is
in America.
The Red Cross of course did its
really great work during the fighting
and before the Armistice but ii WAS
during the long wait after the Arm
istice that those splendid Rel Cross
women did really wonderful work
They wanted 10 get home as much a.
the boys did. but il was their chore 10
remain behind with them, keep their
morale and theiL morals up, and PLAY
the game as only American woman
hood can Miss Betty in "Sttin
Pretty" is Just such a girl. and when
Skowhegan has seen the play it will
understand why every doughboY wants
the Red Cross women and nurses to
march at the head of the parade on
Memorial Day.
There were at least IA dozen soldier
shows that & II. Q, sent all over the
American Sector To amuse the boys
after the Armistice, but "Sittin
Pretty" was the great big hit, and we
are sure that the people of Skowhegan
will enjoy it as much as the boys did
in France.
But don't forget last years expert
ence Buy your tickets at once and
get down to the box office Friday fore
neon COR choice seats. 1t isn't likely
that there will be any seats left on
Monday. and Monday night. boys, the
ticket seller will have sold all his
wares and be watching the curtain 20
up right beside his best girl and her
brand new Easter hat.