Show n IRVIN S. S COBB GIVES WORD PICTURE OF GREAT WAR Crowds Ea Eager g er to Hear I I Great Humorist Describe Describe Describe De De- scribe Experiences LOS ANGELES rl April 9 Irvin lr Cobb has exposed himself eH as the first lecturing war correspondent bank back from frum the battlefields abroad and ami disappointed dis appointed no n Ono no but hut nn an u usher who complained that In all his c experience l at lectures it tv was ts the first time lime noone no noone one In the audience had tad fallen asleep Pull hull of or face fac mind and burly oly c bb had entertained and informed lc so I many person with his written accounts ac accounts accounts ac- ac counts of ot his experiences and ami observations ob ob- srn that the they camo coma prepared III to meet him face faro to face tac anal ami more than Herr ere denied tl that fortune du due to the tho limited seating of or tho rho auditorium where the lecture was given I en en The crush to hear t the h I writer cau caused erl consternation among certain of Ir his lo loyal al friends who hn had I been active all afternoon JI complimentary tickets n against u a po possible pos pos- sible lack Illek of appreciation of rf the at attractiveness at- at ene i of ot a talking t ll Cobb Cobh in tho rho popular mind When hn he sold said Food night his hili reputation as a lecturer was wasas as great icat as aa his hie reputation ns a writer r Finds Humor In War As a humorist Cobb first pained gained fame Camo and amt he found humor In the war w but only ns as ny It concerned ct him hm and his friends Ills quaint and merry descriptions of or his entrance into info the ft lines Jines with a his hs good sued steed GI Gray Gables and his Iris carpet carpet car car- pet slippers was so vivid that the formally orman dressed sed Cobb was urns Imme Imme- Immediately revealed re In the butchers butcher's blouse and scalped t tm straw w hat as is he 11 de described them to lo the rho Intense de delight delight de- de light of the rho audience Ho Iio was was never Hater the comedian and n octet never r the dramatic orator and In his smooth smooth and easy talk with with Ken Ken Ken- Kentucky's tucky's lucky's own accent h he brought the horror and woes and lh desolation of the closer r than it tt has ever Er before been to the public For vivid and detailed effectiveness effective e- e ne ness s Cobbs Cobb's Ile of or the tho field hospitals o of they thE German m army Is 18 s a surpassing surpassing- work ork The hospital he lie lilted teas nt at a n point where all the trains to tu and from the battle hattle lines Imes p passed d. d and fresh enthusiastic e young oun soldiers going to tu the tho front in decorated decorated decora decora- ted trains o of or finest t equipment and andI I the maimed and wounded returning I in n stench ladon laden freight trains h halted I wherever er p delay lay would mean n a m mo- mo s dispatch on oft the part of oC fresh troops None Mono will ever cr c r forget the tho description de de- of the hospital where where a c countess Untes a superintendent of or nurses and amI a n fallen woman t worked tt Ith equal valor and effect together among the wounded Between De trains he eald the ur surgeons fons and nurses s would drop in exhaustion upon th the filthy floors and sleep until aroused to attend nt- nt tend te-nd the next consignment of or Injured Sleep Between Battles One On striking statement was to the effect that when tho the command to ce firing was vms II s ol lIers ami and men a without a word ord would drop upon the ground round and sleep p there In their thir exhaustion until called for tho rho next attack The contrast between his d description lion tion of or his arrival al In the of oC one of ot the German H. H and the I story of or tho de destruction of or a 0 fort by hr bythe bythe the centimeter 12 guns Kuns vt with 00 men hurled In its a flaming cell and their later Inter escape all who survived tved to become idiots Indicates t s 's the breadth p of pf the lecture and the tho varying play pIny upon the emotions of oC the file s a audience nce He lIe describes modern rn war ns as nothing nothing noth noth- I ing more morn romantic than the dun dull colorless level l of ot da day labor and I none who ever heard him would hanker for or war I 11 He BP suggests to keep this country from such a pOj possible tale fate the main maln- tensors of Gf t a Urge large lar e standing army a great nn 1 and elaborate coa coast t forti fortl- I that none Wont ma may stet ever dare engage us In fn strife J f |