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Show uu MOVIES FOR U. S. BOYS IN KHAKI HARRIS SPUR, Tex, April 30. Forming a hollow square around the little mud-thatched Santo Nino church, were picketed th cavalry horses of the reinforced on l post pa-j pa-j trol. Sentries paced back and forth I between the Rio Grande and the ! church while lookouts manned the ma chine gun set up on the flat roof of the church Hostile troops were on 1 the opposite bank of the river and war- time discipline was bcin: maintained j b the un browned Officers with their I broad brimmed hats and chin straps On one side of the little- church was stretched a white canvas screen and from the driver's seat of- a supply truck a motion picture machine was j being operated to throw a mo nz pi ture on this screen. The power was furnished by an electric system rigged I on the back of a small automobile and i the hollow square was electrically 'liKhled from the smae plant. A Young Mens Christian Association outpost field man was operating the machine while the men who were not on duty squatted about the ground and watched watch-ed the deeds of daring performed by SODie movie hero bac k in Hoboken. Soldier Quartet Sings. A soldier quartet sang between reels of the film, men slipped out of the crowd which was banked before the screen and went on outpost or rolled ; themselves in their blankets while, in j the distance, the coyotes howled and ' the camp lires of the Mexican force in the pa-e of the mountains piainl 1 could be seen The evening entertainment furnished fur-nished the cavalrymen was arranged through the border office in El Paso without Charge to the men. After the close of the program and the men were turning in for the nipht, the field worker rewound his films, cranked his little car and started for an engineers' camp near ivmln?:. N. M.. 150 miles distant, where he expected to give an entertainment the following night. The outpost camps alone the Mexican Mexi-can border are visited once each week by the Y. M. C A. outpost field workers work-ers who arrange baseball cames between be-tween competing troops. staRe boxing matches frith pillow boxins gloves e&rried in the little cars and hold sen-ices sen-ices with the assistance of a folding organ which is carried under the seat. |