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Show Paul Gilmore in "The Boys of Company Com-pany B." j The camp scene in "The Boys of Com- J pany B," the new play in which Paul I Gilmore is to be seen at the Colonial all next week, is a perfect fae simile of j the camps of the New York militia when they take their yearly outing and ! get "next to nature. 'i The scene is laid in Meadow s-on-the-Hudson. Rows upon rows of tents fill the stage. The American flag and the company flag are at the head of "Company B Street," and the other companies In rows at the back, each with its own company flag floating at its head. There is a dense piece of woods on the left of the stage, skirted by an old-fashioned country fence. A path runs alongthe edge of the woods. It is the hour for the band concert in the' afternoon half after S. The band is playing at the rise of the curtain. The guard crosses the stage, soldiers are shaking out blankets, which they throw- over the tops of their tents or over the top rarr of the fence. A squirming private is brought in and given a good tossing in his blanket, an unruly, awkward squad is made to do an extra drill, songs are sung by the boys as they lounge in front of "their tents the whole scene is filled with real camp life. An automobile arrives and the occupants are shown about the tents by their friends. It is in this scene that the playwright has intro- duced the tragedy of the piece, a brilliant bril-liant bit of stage work that will live as long as cleverness, originality and a keen sense of the fitness of stage illusion illu-sion for the display of men and women at their best and worst! |