2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Range of Laughter: First Person Reports from Entertainers of the Over There Theatre League
verfasst von : Felicia Hardison Londré
Erschienen in: Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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This admonition to performers who volunteered to entertain American soldiers in France under the auspices of the Over There Theatre League, sponsored by the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), was published on June 19, 1918, in vaudevillian Will Cressy’s weekly newspaper column “Three Minutes in One.”2 Broadway producer Winthrop Ames, who spearheaded the Over There Theatre League, had toured American military camps in France in February—March 1918 and had seen for him-self how desperately the doughboys needed some morale-boosting, light entertainment. As the first contingent of entertainers awaited transport across the Atlantic, Ames asked Cressy (who headed one of the five units in that first wave) to use his column to reinforce some basic principles of performing over there.3