Show GENERAL PUTS ON PLAY OF HIS OWN ON Commander Strips Service Service Men of Superfluous Superfluous Super Super- Decorations By Associated Press NEW EW YORK March Majoe n General John I. I F. F ORyan and his staff attended a the theatre tre party last night as the guests of Rodman Wanamaker Wana- Wana i maker deputy police commissioner I At the end of the second act the commander ot of the seventh Twenty division staged p little play o of hIs I own lie He was seen to stand up in his box scan the audience and give an order to an aide There was sudden activity among the officers of the start staff and they scattered hurriedly among mong the audience audience audi audi- ence picking out officers and privates here and there telling them to assemble assemble as- as in the promenade at the rear of the theatre When the men in uniform had complied com com- plied with the comm command nd they were astounded to learn they were to be questioned as to why they wore certain certain tain decorations Those who had on Sam Browne belts were forced to surrender surrender sur- sur render them to officers of the generals general's generals general's gen gen- eral's staff as it is a violation of army regulations to wear them in inthis inthis this country Asked If it was not somewhat unusual to draw such a strict military lin ling at a social ocial aff affair ir one of the staff officers replied Nothing is unusual in military life ife |