Show TRENCH PRIZE RING IS STAGE FOR ELSIE JANIS Pretty American Performer Goes to Front to Entertain Enter Enter- tam tain U U. S. S Soldiers By Associated Press WITH THE TIlE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE Thursday May 23 Seldom Seldom has hasa a theatrical entertainment been staged Ina in ina ina a more unusual setting than one given location which en enabled enabled enabled en- en this afternoon In a several hundred hot and dirty American troopers just out of ot the trenches to the so hour or to get back for an atmosphere of Broadway An open air prize ring yas vas the stage planes Alt purred overhead and the booming of the was plainly heard heard- guns on the front crossroad on ona ona The ring Is located at a borderland a hill from which the German erman can easily be opposite the Toul sector of ot the some seen On It of an evening energetic of the American youngsters young while away the hours I wont to army are I of rest between trench tours by putting on the gloves today trod the The who performer Miss stage was boards of this unique Elsie Elslo Janis now on a visit to the front entertainments for the fighters to give and new songs She told stories sang danced When a German airplane spared and the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- Amerlean I in the sky not so far away bursting ican lean antiaircraft guns begun I Ifor around the performance stopped shrapnel I II while Miss Janis looked up for a moment I III of her and asked if there was any chance I she didn't t want to tobe tobe tobe being killed because f II be as she had work to do to tomorrow 00 The assembled doughboys thick on on the the and perched on onI I ground around the stage the housetops everywhere w within I Jl hearing fr f fand I and l seeing I e distance Pt t yelled I In Chorus No and applause were frequent fre frequent fro fro- keep on Cheers the show quent during At the conclusion Miss Janis 1 offered dance steps the now to show the men Including one and several accepted n. n much amusement amusement amusement amuse amuse- muleskinner who caused ment by his eccentricities Miss Janis will remain in the vicinity vi entertaining ent entertain entertain- of ot the Toul front for two days daya ing at various rest camps |