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Show Press Comment on Ada L. Ward If the men and women of Edmonton Ed-monton need stimulating, a thorough thor-ough mental house-cleaning, a detached de-tached viewpoint of themselves as seen against a war background and who shall say they do not the audience whom Miss Ada Ward addressed Tuesday evening in Mc-Dougall Mc-Dougall auditorium were in a position posi-tion to receive all of these at the hands of the talented lady. Any one so devoid of heart-strings as to spend the evening with this wonderful artist, and not feel the utter inadequacy of living at this particular moment unless in some way helping with the war, would be insensible of better things indeed. The Edmonton Journal. No one in Calgary can afford to miss the opportunity to hear Miss Ada Ward, the English lecturer and entertainer, in her stories of hie in England and at the front. Miss Ward lives up to all the advance notices, and at her lecture ast evening she held her audience breathless at times; at times had them convulsed with laughter, and again almost moved to tears. Her narrative of incidents from life at the front bear the. impression of the eye-witness. She has spent many months among the British troops in France, ami she has the gi t of humor and the power of telling it well. Albertan, Calgary. She played litcTaThavoc with her audience., She wiped caste asid bhe transformed the women ,, resent res-ent into a sisterhood-with a common com-mon bond between them. Slu-made Slu-made them laugh together-and them rv1TeAmportil,lt' shc m: uiem ciy together. -FreeresWinnipeg. MisI1w.lilk',U!f r:is ,,luin,u'11 wu.h . ? V.:ud and her lecture Her onguia ty, her bright, fresllhu - I,01ant observations ou the manners and n,(Jo(ls of .,. . , -omen delighted and anlus , ' f hour and a half. The enter jmment was such as fc s, i J the most critical." Birmingham News, j |