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Show (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) WHISTLE BROUGHT HIM FAME Restaurant Cook, Harry Keynston Jones, Famous as Author ef "Rose of No Man's Land." From out the bustling kitchen of a popular summer resort restaurant near frnrn St. Paul, Minn., there issued during dur-ing the vacation season lilting songs and whistled whis-tled ditties that mounded so strangely familiar famil-iar that American Ameri-can Legion service serv-ice men of the World war decided de-cided to investigate. investi-gate. They found the musician to be one Harry Keynston Keyn-ston -Jones, a five-foot-ten Cockney, also the restaurant cook. Jones began his musical career as chef 'Of -a Winnipeg grenadier regiment during the war. Later he tended the jjrlvate skillet of Gen. Sir Julian Byng at Vimy Ridge, and. more Important than that, lie wrote "Rose of No Man's ILand," the war song that had a long orun 'Of popularity. A penny whistle which he bought and played for the :prime purpose of amusing his kitchen police caused his rise to music fame, "he declared. In France he was transferred to the officers' mess. There Lieutenant Colonel Col-onel McRae, who later wrote "In Flanders Flan-ders Fields," heard the penny whistling, whis-tling, and the two became friends. "Some time afterward they together turned out the words and music of ' the No Man's Land song. Jones, wounded at Cambral, was invalided in-valided back to Canada. After his discharge from the hospital he began a sightseeing tour of the states, depending de-pending upon his cooking ability for ready employment. He now has a Bong with a New York publisher which he hopes to put forth soon. |