Show ElSIE JANIS PLAYS I FOR SOLDIERS ON I BATTLEFIELD I Ic II i I Actress Actress c ress Dances and Sings SingsI Before Helmeted I Audience t By Newton C. C Parke t I f International News Service Staff Correspondent Cort Cor Cor- t respondent k VITI WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IY IN 4 r FRANCE May 24 Elsie 24 Elsie Janis famous fa- fa I t mows American actress made her herI herVia I Via i debut on the Battlefront circuit last I. I t Tuesday afternoon and faced her first audience 1 In a little village on the Toul front 1 f j within easy range of r gunners Miss danced and sang and told stories up by doing a lively fox trot with four Cour coatless I doughboys after she had forced one oneto oneto to discharge a huge chew of tobacco one thing I must draw the theline theline line at she exclaimed One of Miss 1 Janis Janis' stories was interrupted interrupted in in- in by fire from antiaircraft guns against a boche airplane somewhere somewhere some some- where in the vicinity OLD SOL LIGHTS STAGE The stage was a squared ring ling at the top lop of a hill on which many soldier boxing bouts had taken place The spotlight was Old Sol Soh Miss Janis worked so hard to please her soldier audience that the perspiration perspiration tion streamed from Crom her bel face and her cheeks checks were red as berries from her exertion At least 1000 doughboys were perched on red tilted roofs of adjoining adjoining adjoin adjoin- ing ins houses crammed clammed in m trucks and seated aloft in the branches blanches of trees They were vere jammed like subway rush hour travelers about the ringside and they surely did give Elsie Elsio one regular army welcome The program was opened with a bunch of stories and then the actress sang songs accompanied by a W W. M M. CA C C. A A. A man on a thing that once passed ash a piano AIRPLANE INTERRUPTS The doughboys joined in with her in one ono song about the dirty Germans In Inthe Inthe the middle of the song an aeroplane l buzzed overhead coming from the di di- of the firing line Elsie stopped and looked skyward anxiously exclaiming What it is boys a German I cant can't be killed kille l this afternoon because I have to work to to- morrow She was heartily reassured and finished fin fin- finished the song The star number was Elsie's overseas version of Over There entitled Over Here She finished this up by doing a series of cartwheels about the ring despite restrictions imposed by the thO narrow V skirt of her blue traveling sul sui su This elicited wild applause Last ast night she repeated the stunts for foi American aviators spending the night at Toul with ith her mother Miss l I Janis will give ive similar performances in villages behind the Toul front on Friday Fri Fr- da lay day and Saturday I |