| Show l n Bas arro Sea e Musicians Musician's S Sih Life Ito at front Is ifs Exciting Chin it ih if Jokes of Trenches e Retold Stage JACK CARTER left and Sergeant Lew Price C CAPTAIN with Allied War Var Veterans Veterans' band both famous Canadian soldiers ra c q Y of Band Bring Tales of Army Life one is working under W WHEN shell fIre he becomes hec mes accustomed accustomed tomed to it and regards flying fly fly- ing fragments of shrapnel and the like as all In the days day's work according according ac- ac cording to Sergeant Lew Price of the Canadian expeditionary forces now i with the Allied War Var Veterans Veterans' band appearing at the Orpheum theatre tonight to- to night Sergeant Price knows whereof he speaks for he spent a good many months in n. n part of France where shells were landing steadily day in and day out lie He went over as a bandsman bandsman bands bands- man but there was too much work to tobe tobe be done clone over there to permIt a great deal of music so he and many of his musical comrades were set to work being attached to a railway construction construction tion battalion NARROW ESCAPE One day Bandsman Price was gaily trundling his truck up a narrow gauge track used for carrying supplies with shells bursting all around as was their wont when his truck suddenly stopped The pause was so abrupt th that t the truck struck the sergEant on the chest At I first he thought It had lilt hIt an obstruction obstruction tion on the track and he went around in front to see what it was There was nothing there Then I had an idea said Sergeant Price I examined the truck and found a fragment of shell had struck and though mado of steel had gone right through it in two places the end and the bottom That shell certainly came as close to me as I want one to come SEVEN ARE SLAIN The Germans made t a specialty of bombarding bombarding- the narrow railways and Sergeant Price had many narrow escapes esc es- es c capes pes from death On one day alone they cut the section of road on which he was workIng in twenty places Five men and two officers paid with their lives to keep the line open that day Captain Jack Carter Carter- ranked as the youngest qua quartermaster In the Canadian Canadian Can Can- adian expeditionary nary forces Corces and as one of the youngest captains isa natural born comedian and hIs English chappie chapple chap chap- pie monologue is one of the biggest hits of the concert given by the Fighting Sons of Guns Captain Carter spent all but a month or so of his active service in England helping to get supplies supplies sup sup- plies to the troops Sergeant Price sings Welsh and Irish ballads a thIng he did In camp and ill in his railway construction work He too is n. n hit of the entertainment just jus as asIre ashe Ire he was on the firing line and in camp |
