The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1918, Page 9

NY _. te 2s AN Va SANs I ONY QOaZT Je= | | THE NEW PLAYS | S “Crops and Croppers” | e e 99 At Fort Totten Barracks| **Training Under Uncle Sam Very Small Potatoes = SKETCHES OF THE WOMEN’S MOTOR CORPS UNDERGOING INTENSIVE MILITARY TRAININ One Hundred New York and Brooklyn Women, Or-| AT FORT TOTTEN, AND THEIR COMMANDER, CAPT. LOUISE C. RUXTON. dered Into Encampment for Intensive Military Training, Forsake Powder Puffs, French Heels and Mirrors for Rigors of Army Camp, and Not Only Like It but Thrive Under Change. | ¢ \ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | \ Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) HERE 1s just one mirror in sight. There isn't a visible powder puff, French heel, chiffon blouse, summer fur, dressing table. But there are shining leather puttees, Sam Browne belts, wrist watches and utes every second at the military camp of the Motor Corps of the Na- League for Women’s Service now in Fort Totten Barracks some- where on Long Island. v ' About one hundred New York and Brooklyn women, many of them young and personable, were ordered into encampment by Major Gen. Bell for one week's intensive military training to fit them for tae task of transporting wounded American boys from hos. pital ships to shore hospitals in and about New York. ‘They are living in the barracks of Company 4 at Fort ny) » Totten, and theirs is the military whirl from 56.45 in the “ morning till 9 o'clock at night. They live in their khaki coats, short skirts and puttees exulted Capt. Louise Ruxton, who 4s {n command of the } Women, “has missed a single call, even the call for getting up in the morn. ‘tng. Nobody has had to go on kitchen police. Nobody has fallen out at Sick call except one girl who had the grippe just before she came. Nobody asked for leave of absence. It’s all been splendid, and we all think 0.” @e women sleep in the regular | Peden O = aoe = barracks, in iron cots sect about two | assembly at 5.45. From that time un- feet apart. They were allowed to| tl! 9 the women may read, sing, write BY CHARLES DARNTON CLDIERS and sailors must find It exceedingly dificult to keep from laughing up their sleeves at the war-time plays that stretch into inter. minadie dullness along the Brow y eector, As for the reat of n= We have to be brave these nights to ve theatre that as the label of Niotiam pasted all over it ‘Crops and Croppers” im like an off. | shoot of the feminine hysteria that Arnold Bennett attempted to disclose in “The Pretty Lady.” London and the Empire Music Hall are, to bo eure, far removed (rom the New England farm on which Theresa Heburn has founded her innocent little play, yet the same idea is kept working over- time. Miss Holburn takes girls from New York and proves their inefficiency on 4 farm. Nothing could be more simple. ‘The art of sowing tho field is as fine employment as any one coukt find. But it is by no means a play industry The moment it is given a ‘hyeatrical touch it falls to the ground Taking “Crops and Croppers" as ‘a play, it must be set down in cold print as very small potatoes, It merely turns agriculture to sentimen- jtal uses, and for that matter It Is as dramatic summer squash. The silly New York girl who Is disposed | to admire herself as a farmerette | hasn't @ leg to stand on when she jundertakes her small adventure, The ,only harvest ehe reaps in a French aviator with the War Cross to his credit, and he figures humbly for a| Clash of accents should heve heer uu inG " y,| considered by Iden Pa before f bring sheets, but they have the regu-| letters or rest, and almost every night vabiyer / tine as her hired man. Fortunately, | conniders’ by Iden Payne before | Jar brown army blankets. The only | there is some sort of “show” at the MESSAGE / . aed gregh eras ip aor sive an |pany on long-suffering New York ft » besides ‘eo cots | camp to which they are invited. rom a dramatic point of view, when | Pf : p furniture besides th ts in the oa s bae if ‘les | f i ho is left alone at luncheon while|C°™mon sense ought to be the firs Jeeping rooms are a few lockers. But} Bu 8 000 Gne UES CUL at are Lieut. + ia i hacia in frienda |W of the theatre . Tone y*cloe 0 » to ne farmeretten heir me nd almost al) belongings must be kept in| ihe k—and nobody seems averse t . CATHERINE ane bias o on the porch of the | _ Helen Westley Is amusing a8 a New Suitcase, the only luggage allowed | either. | IN THEIR ‘ r {i } A. house. This je the only situation that gland economist who leaves he wach member of the corps, which| | forgot the luckiess ones on guard | ; / 1 * — , vo yi MESS HALL = f FREDRICH| [the play deve’ false teeth at home becouse she Beads at the foot of the bed, jduty. Two young women must be : ; f f ri r doesn’t want to wear them out in the First call sounds for the Women's |P4ciag up and down the barracks Laat ries renaey whe la nickgtsre Indoor sport of talking; Louie Cook ; : , i does bin. bi erestin, or he PMotor Corps at 5.45. There is a swift | Corridor while the others are sleeping. ane | Hubaa wake hard in-a{' thoroughly matter of fact ou the (informal parade in pajamas and} There are three shifts of guards Mi i MEIER Tes Was Mise pelt inf farm, and Eleanor Fox is a gaol reasing gowns to the cold shower |"shtly—from 6 to 12, from 12 to 2 pope apts ige pa rpas d ; AL | looking girl who keeps an cye out fe paths in the basement. Every woman | ‘tom 2 to 6. There are two shifts of : ’ Re va wotwe, Honty Stanford. who rig. {aay young man. who may happso washed, combed, brushed, | Sit! guards in the daylight hours| | mawing READY ff i sh, 5 | dl dey Pigee 5 | pass along the y country road and sprucely ready for in- | {fom 6 to 12 and from 12 to 6. i, if = | lures ax tho brother of the tending | "Hut as a play “Crops and Cropper IKpection in thirty flying minutes, for| AFMY rations are what the women FoR “THE = \ armerette, in hopelessly English. ‘This! leads the way to the storehouse Mbserbly sounds at 6.15. get to cat, and army style Ix their | | . $$$ oe “How do they do it, with only one aha! Jy eee bash ran atools | , ir t . r mirror?” I asked At tong board settles, and their plain | srirs oman Dan asnie r , ‘ white mugs and plates might be used = é por ana oyety he ee | as substitutes any time the American toa aol the icy eats anonis | Armhy# band evenade supply” fal Just Worked Her Own Way Up. . “and she sticks it up someho praia } C Breakfast is at 6.45, sick call at 7.80, | "°F | | n By 17.50 o'clock each woman soldier| ‘THe food itself is cooked by a group | . i F must have her bed made, with geo- | °! eka who certainly are as use- | Miss Lillian G. Jones of the N. Y. Branch of the National an metrical precis! And quarters must | ‘U! as the most picturesque litter. B sf “oS , ny are 6 flank of C , Real “Self Made Girl,” Predicts be in immaculate order. A different Tiley are membere of the ‘ube, . Z squad sweeps and mops the big sleep. | VAnteet babe National League | | Women Bank Presidents Soon. ing rooms dally pe h hang . babes arenara F | Cayyetht, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World) naki they wear white, a blue} At 8 o'clock the women form forlprassard. Under the leadership. of | | : s y LENDER, simple and as genuine as the millions of good United State Tafantry drill by the post officers 00 | \475 Kaward J. Van Sickien and Mra | S money which passes through her competent hands—that is New York’ fhe parade ground. There is forty-|mank K. Perking, a d ekg oe ihe “ : ‘ ' firet woman bank cashier, Miss Lillian G, Jones of the New York ™ rank . ina, a do se = ' ; f y five minutes of t then half an ho! oh CAPT. LouISE C.RUKTON WHERE THEY ReST Franch of the Nat‘onal Bank of Cuba at No, 34 Wall Street. amore of setting-up exercises, From |~°me prepare and serve the meals HEAD OF BROOKLYN CORPS She in a real eelf- : of the ravenous motorettes, ¥.45 to 10.30 comes one of the most i made girl, for she maportant ev of the day—the litter |. TMS is a typical day's menu: Break- | — ~ = ~— amementond started with only a , | fast, eggs, potatoes, bread and but- MISS dei with the corps’ own ambulances | i poblic school edu- and litters, when the women learn | ‘ef Coffee; dinner (at noon), soup | e ros S e WwW Ss 0 e ee \tion—not even a LILLIAN G, just how to lift and handle sick and |T8t beef, potatoes, corn, canteloupe high schoo! diploma. JONES coffee; supper, hash, potatoes, sliced oa Rees Ce: Three: ts of an stneapple, toa, coffee. The canteen| Nurses Learning to Sing to Cheer Shell Shocked Soldiers 8 hour of signalling pra ends at| employ of the Na- 11.80 and mess is at 12 | workers take core of thelr own har- | to Recovery~-Reports From Local County Chapters Show tional Bank of | racks too, ! f The afternoon is equally full and | Fae | i " ‘i Prey : one Cuba eight years migy. On Tuesdays and ‘Churadaya| It is all utterly muperiatively mili | Workers Everywhere Keeping Pace With All Opportunities. | ago as stenoaraph: here is an more of infantry | tary. Yet the eternal feminine will By H a) these pits and shells, Persons who ISS GERTRUDE EMERSON of | To supply their full quota of the oy pwo years ago ot Hei Ae tas yg ‘ lazel V. Carter. | will asuint the Government in thin Fe eh om cree tae sat [97000 NUrmeasue Tite eaator Shur gear | AN rill, beginning at 1 P.M. There are |not down—wby should it, for that | y spect may comniunicate by telephone the Brooklyn Chapter ha Jus" l those three States in the next four; he was made As ectures from to 3.15, on hy made @ record in machine knit T. Ervin W, Read, United! with Lieut States Army Song Leader, who master's ( Ja half must enroll 8,108! sistant Cashier, craduates of recognized | The Cashier is go kson of the Quarte months ut Murray Hill 9000. ting at the Aeademy, having made @! additiq irst aid, milita! .;matter? When The Evening World 1 courtesy and similar | artist desired to make a sketch, pret- | | opics, and swimming at 3.30. On|ty blue-eyed Capt, Louise Ruxton is drilling Red Cross nurses up Ho will the ollections pair of sucks in eight snd t fralnidie wenoola tar Ruane, ieee War aka the . | ala | . deonce Ay lousewives Yo | completed sixteen Dp: hacween' 440 ni | a Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in-|she stopped him-—almost fiercely. {at the Tlat Armory every day in the! oyyay ste any is manne - pleted sixteen pairs between 9.30 bank most credft antry drill begins at 2.15, and there }"Wait,” she bade him with the true) week, haa gent more than 5,000 nurses Lat sd ) the morning and 4.80 in th fter- IL. you lend your automobile! aiiy jag advanced to Uncle sam he ©W| Miss Jones to his is assembly ). The last mess, {ring of command, “Walt—till [ fx | singing on their way to war. i CAMPAIGN is being wasted by J every day, is at 6 P. M, with another my hair!" “You'll do more good with your the Home Service Section of |." a VOrkno mn hed ae Ore ATED als York County Chapter issued] pogiuon, She will — —————| songs than your tonics," Lieut. Read the New York County Chapter | Govurnment, to be completed by {4 appeal yesterday for fifty women, | receive his salary to volunte their |declared yesterday, as he finished of the American Red C the |15, and these were finishe ill jowning ci apy “Old S | k y U ! willing U Jo, 67, he : to | for shipment on the 10th of Sinan and th ‘eive’ tha ae cf ihele Ree, W ing Unit No, 57, known at the/wixth training course, w to | for shipment on i h I believe there ts et ° ake ou Pp! Armory as “Sunshine” Unit | bein on Oct. 1, A fresh for motor cars to the Chapter Motor Car-| q_ new field for Corps, No. 34 Park Avenue need everything from a Ford Fiat,” declared Captain Ade: & falthful attenda Rays of Morning Sunlight Used as Silent Alarm The psychological effect of music| high grade women to do high grade Hm faitheal attend Ankh 1k. MRARS 4 | oc eolduera suffering from shell shock | ¥°TK here at home for the families of workers of the 26th Wa Bede . pba “i ss joc’ men fighting overseas” has been sent ilary has ¢ is now ® -cognised fact, according 0! out by Mrs. John M. Glenn, Chair ing.” Miss Jones told me yesterday, abled the auxiliary » standard jto maintain a very th ; yy man of the Home wervic Baylis, head of the Mot dire Lieut. Read. nin of the Home Bervi , production during the summer|Giire, ‘aad wornecd them NOW with a direct Hach unit has its own unit songs! The women are asked to giv aa tena tae gent th ake glance from a avail rena au taiea full days or six half days a week | month he auxilia n t atpae eres ; And yelle And:Aa the nurses take th throughout the winter of 1918-19 a ipply rooms, No. 180 Pierrepont & peir of unusually marching drills the armory echoes) are asked to report as na pos | Btreot, during July and Augu T. CARRINGTON, head of the! SABHINGTON head of the large brown eyeR, dressings, 486 hos e Snbertinment and penelit! oe hair ie brown bureau of New Yorn County with ynit songs from Nebraska, Con-| sible for examination and registra. | necticut and the various States rep- | on, | | t and refugee garments and! oy 49, pte Pass slso and parted to resented, | i Ghee enn het tt 102 knitted gasments, The workroom Apt . Ps nm ” an Ric A 4, 4M! ake a triangle of na virus ‘A Arad inidlck lee 5 has been set as the Jor this auailiary is at 226 Barbey | nounce bursday that the Nuticnall yor wide, intellige cl big A nurse I had 0 hive vaktalon? whioa din Vet ate oO moan Monday from|Horse Show thi i woule cases i telligent forehead. My training has been here in the her personal experience with the Sccbich emattin Be ee l: to 6 P.M. and from 7.80 to 10 looks us young as she is—well unde i id Grn bank,” she replied ve just worked healing power of son, Lieut. Read | |. M., and on ‘Tuesdays, Wednesdays | 74; ) ty C b ner ross re thirty—and there is @ fine poise in| up, Of course it has meant not being said, “She was atiached to a big | County Chapter of the Aim) huradays from 2 to 6 P. M. The | age alizod | ain feat he. up. Of cour as mean’ f base hospital in France, and among | Cross will move from their» 1 iy planning to expand it Lai 4 ‘our, She has 4/afraid of work and being interested the patients sulfering from shell | quarters at the Grand Centra L denartments, and dur he re ft and pleasant votce | keenly in it all the time, stock was a French officer abou oO. 14 Bast 47th Str 1 ne to take up Fed Cros HE New York County Chapter that pert the heritage from “The cuali cs i thirty-six yearg old, He was sufter-|Mourth Avenue, it wnnoU, nas large a scale as possible ealizing heavy the 4 ler English m parents, and she The qualities which will bring ing horribly from shell shock and | Saturday lll spbetadly avy On palit | a : | women success in banking are no dif- said to be 90 per cent. deaf, He had ORTY-ONE nr bay Of record cargous of tin and lead | dresses with @ trim daintiness that! sorent, in my opinion, from. thése been experimented on in every way? VOICE from the tre 4 has f CFDs. DAYS fal tin from all parta of thelerrs nelther on the side of severity) which make men succeed, The girl known to science wilhout results. spoken for the ( Be itl been establish nthe Atlantic count ‘he full brings from 7 to 60 | nor of elaboration, When I saw her! who wants to attain a position of im- Finaiy one night 2 Broup of hed New York. r New York Division of the Red Cross with! cents a pound and ts sold in 100-poung|she wore a moderately short skirt of ccetehae te AMGAE uae SA hea Cross nurses started the phonograph | ,, ; shelved @ [atta ok taut GAA " he Heat ; pied Se Martie ts € a s and sang in unison ‘Keep the Home | Younts, € hes E feet et sen Koen nee Una fergie v “ded lar rg © thy) some dark material and @ pretty | able, dependable, ready to work hard, Fires Burning.’ Almost instantly nis Mie carenne Brope iat | eeuitaa motos diy aa nd report that it ia eviming in| white shirtwalat with a lace collar | interested in her work, discreet and a hearing returned and subsequent ee ae een tor Tine? Bhosiiyan tas” Tickaway, |(Msraee Ae they ean al i |outlining its modest V, sood aaiurel inden Ge Raaeslal male doves’ of music served to bring the tie wuld wiinply | Nassau County County, Seas y If women can be stenographers| tory 1 think many young women of nan back to nearly bis normal con-| sone of my sons, who is now | Westchester County, Hay , Bound TERICAN Red Cross standard/ and bookkeepers in a bank there {| 10 Gay can quality on all these dition, serving with the colors in Pra is| Brook, Blizabeth, Hackensack, Jers surgica gs have been! no reason why they should not suc. ; . {On ships, on march and in the hoe eee ne a letter asking that 1 | City, Metuchen, M air, New om pted f A ‘ y : “ ounts and I see no reason why we lp these ul ca ¢ SehGR NO & A _ - th Orat autern sf — sor U he ceed as Cashiers and in other re ‘0 ave ni Presi- arPEeKa Have AntIGHAPARTEVAPLILE ta (HAT EKARe ATAAARE GOmITAAG pitas eno nurses W arry thelr to your overseas fund, in his name, | ark, th Anges and Paterson erat rad it lsnonsible positions” she continued, |{*Rould not have women hank Presi haw “1 4 yy songs to ar, | $5, in ap ciation of the A sponsible positions, e ¢ ed jents before long.” of the businesslike alarm clock. It is not surprising therefore to find Tana Cerandad to hin singe leay Ne HE Atlantic’ Division teads the | Departme rding to cable from! «phere has been a prejudice against | ba iiss Jones of Wail hindahin a man who has devised a silent slumber meter, He tives in what is RE you saving your peach pits. ica." | File SauRe in. the. actual | Harvey D. Gibson, Red Cross Com-| putting wor in such places, but He hope Mine ice, oni "nes ead of pariaiael peoeblaels HOMO Om AAA for gan siaaha! [pe rtm thank ener] st tuany Im ih see ona t n wich ne {Rt bound to be diasipated fy |"B* MTet one 7 adhe gra iallaalini a bd i The patriotic appeal to con-' Wi. on the job, and that say Hed Cross since the United States reget ant be the war, With the absence of young | on ere i ' ‘As the sun's rays first burst over the roof of an adjacent building thoy Sefve Pits and shells for charcoal to ing many fives and making other ntered the war According to @ the determining | Me women will be advan and | NOT QUITE MASCULI ike the glass and are reflected into the eyes of the sleeper, As time used in'the manufacture of ¢ able, and that the Red ¢ band |sta ent issued from National Heid> | ga ‘ © de r | will prove they can perform their new] Muggins—Your suffragist friem@ is MLAETIE nouition af the mirror in aiiere ‘aifact the neceaaary 6 ks is being answered throughout a big factor in the win-the-war|quarters, the States of New York ‘dutiea” rather masculine, isn't she? mnt ane prmren oF Me mirror 1a siteren tn ef pe ReneReOrY Carrs Bronx County Chapter of the Red paign New Jersey and Connecticut held, on it on. “artment stores, cigar appre tive soldier ia H. aid} August 1, the first place in thia work, In the accompanying picture, reprinted from Popular Mechanics, effect of the silent alarm clock is seen at the left and at the right is eee LE, Miss Jones ts considered an expert | piggins—Oh, 1 don't know. @he ale the 1nts, public offices and Steinhardt, Pigeon Service, having assigned to war duty 2,600 | Red Cross News Is Printed in The || in foreign exchange and I asked her | ways looks around for some fellows own other central localities have been Corps, U. & A. and he has been over|nurses, or 45 per cent, of their aliot Evening World Every Saturday, |, |f she had taken any special training |seat in a crowded car.—Philadelghia | ‘the mirror that reflects the sun's rays upon the face, asked to establish receptucles for there for several mouths ment of 6,708 nurses for January | 0 her present post Record, a. ¢ ‘ 1 r=