The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 27, 1919, Page 2, Image 2
"WILD CATS" HAD
THE RIGHT NAME
81 ST DIVISION TRAINED AT
CAMP JACKSON.
Put On Original Show.
Division With Many South Carolinians
Goes Into Theatricals
in France.
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Mussy-sur-Seine, France, Feb. 5.
?Now that the Wild Cats, insignia
by which Maj. Gen. C.harles J. Ba*ii
ley's Eighty-first Division is recognized,
have courageously performed
what Uncle Sam asked of them on
the Meuse-Argonne front in the vivorrinn?and
performed in
V/1JJ.1 CJ U1 ? v- v. _
a manner that will never be forgotten
> by the Fifth Prussian division and
Third Bavarian division of the German
army?they are executing
training schedules, filling the time
prior to the return to America, in an
area known as the Chatillon-surSeine.
Mussy-sur-Seine is the location of
tht division headquarters, with various
branches of the service in the
division scattered out in some half a
hundred villages adjoining Mussy.
It is not my duty to write about
army achievements in this letter to
your valuable paper, which is read,
I am positive, due to familiarity
with your circulation gained while
visiting your city as press agent for
Cohan and Harris attractions, in
?
homes abounding in interest in the
welfare of the Eighty-first division.
The army achievement will be duly
tabulated through military chahnels
for the attention of mothers and
fathers, who have centered their loving
and devoted* interest in this division.
But, without infringing upon
army regulations, I may tip off
the fact, as a doughboy of the division,
to, mothers and fathers of sons
in the Wild Cat division that they
may anticipate splendid news in the
army report?news that will make
them feel proud their sons were enrolled
under the emblem of the Wild
Cat.
/' It is for me to relate what is ab
sorbing the attention and spare mo.
. -ments of the men while they remain
on foreign soil, abiding with the
wishes of Uncle Sam toward the fulfillment
of the armistice conditions,
ahd awaiting the "big word" to start
for America.
Since December 3, the date on
which the Eighty-first division completed
its triumphal hike from the
spot in the Meuse-Argonne sector,
where the Wild Cats put the finishing
touches to the ambitions of the
Huns, and arrived in this area, light
training schedules have been the order
of things hereabouts. These
tv
schedules were organized with a
view of maintaining the health ol
ha man and in this respect they
have answered the purpose. The
health of the Eighty-first division ax
this writing is superb. This news,
mind you, is from the pen of a
doughboy in the division, pessimists
? can't say it is exaggerated, due to
hearsay. The men are thinking and
dreaming and guessing of the hour
they will hear the word to go home,
being so completely occupied in these
thoughts that they haven't got time
to become ill.. Of course there is illness
of a "trifle" nature, as is to be
v expected in any big body of men,
but the health, the fighting health
of the division, is today 100 per cent.
This is an item the writer is fully
aware will be pleasing to the anxious
ones back home.
Want to Go Home.
Si
Naturally, the men want to go
home! They want a peep at the
Statue of Liberty. Or will it be
Charleston harbor or ' Newport
News? There's another guess the
men are making?the exact location
where the division will land in
America. The men find interest in
laying wagers between themselves
as to where the division will land.
It's an official topic to be decided,
but all can rest assured that the happiness
will be supreme wc:a the or1
. der is given to start for America. On
February 11 the Eighty-first division
will have registered the duration of
the overseas service that will entitle
each soldier in the division to the
first gold stripe.
Entertainment is what is serving
as' the big attraction to fill the
thoughts of the men, while the
training schedules are lightened in
comparison to what they werfe while
the men were preparing to clash
full swing throughout the A. E. F.
as the result of a general order declaring
tha>t the men be awarded a
big measure of enjoyment to while
away the wintry nights. The Wild
Cats are exceedingly conspicuous in
the entertaining line through Gen.
Bailey seeing to it. that entertainment
be established as an important
factor ip the present situation.
Lieut. Robert L. Hayes of division
headquarters, is the division enter
tainment officer. Under Lieut. f
Hayes* supervision a wide table of -y
entertainment plans have been s
spread broadcast throughout the di- c
vision until those plans have become s
as important as was the manual 01
arms to the beginning of each sol- 1
dier's army life. Situated in an t
area, far from the possibilities of en- t
tertainment at the command of men f
placed in camps in America.% Lieut, f
Hayes found his task a difficult one t
at the start but a Wild Cat is a Wild (
" Cat regardless of the task to be ac- t
complished. The result is that the 1
present time finds splendid enter- j
tainment in the division, with as i
much interest prevailing as if the
men had prepared for it many days ,
before it was known November 11
was to be productive of the opportu- t
nitv now at hand. .
Self-made entertainment has popped
out every nook and corner of the
Eighty-first division. There's conerable
professional talent hereabouts
but why this professional talent
won't be considered as richly as
the self-made talent will be learned
later in this letter.
The Wild Cats have the banjo players
from Alabama; the sweet voiced
singers from Tennessee; the good
Southern darky imitation singers
from the Carolinas; the soft shoe
dancers from Florida, and last but
not least the parody singers and
story tellers from the Bronx in New
York. There's a sprinkling of talent
from other States in the division
but those named predominate.
On Christmas night regimental j
shows were given, and they were so
cleverly presented that bigger ideas
for the Wild Cats to make progress
in the entertainment department!
were quickly grasped.
Now the Wild Cats, via the process j
of gathering choice talent from va- j
rious branches of the service, plus a '
topnotch orchestra taken from the
artillery, have a representative division
show. It is called, "Oh, You
Wild Cats."
Boasted up in details that army
regulations and facilities don't govern,
by the wide scope and extreme
hospitality of the Y. M. C. A., and
Eighty-first division theatrical tal- j
ent has been placed on detached ser-;
vice, and formed into an entertain-!
ment unit. The Y. M. C. A. guiding
hand is superintended by Luther B. j
Swanstrom, entertainment director,
of the "Y" in the Chatillon area.!
i Mr. Swanstrom is working with
Lieut. Hayes in the perfection of the
, whole undertaking.
The men forming the theatrical
unit of the division have been as-j
l sembled in the town of Chatillon
sur-Seine under the direct charge of.
i the Y. M. C. A., which organization .
, has furnished the unit with every j
comfortable means that is at the'
i command of any organization "overj
; here." The unit has its own rehears-!
al tent; its own tent for billeting
; purposes and its own mess tent. In j
. short, the Eighty-first division the-!
: atrical unit is an institution in it-;
self.
Wild Cats Unafraid.
While the Wild Cats were .assem-,
' bling their ideals for a representa'
tive show, other divisions were rush-;
; ing to Paris, and gaining considera-!
1 ble publicity by presenting their rep!
1 resentative shows. The rush is
still on. The Seventy-seventh gain- j
ed a foothold on the publicity j
! through the efforts of the "Argonne ;
1 Players." The Twenty-second, with!'
several others, followed the foot-!
! steps of the New York division. Did j,
1 this scare or discourage the Wild j i
Cats? Not a solitary iota! Who ever
heard of a Wild Cat being scared? I"
. Instead of being discouraged at j,
1 the achievements of the other divis-:
ions in theatricals, the Wild Cats re-,
mained in their den in this area?
i merely lying in wait?lying in wait
for an original idea. This idea
eventually came and it will probably
be interesting for the anxious ones
back home to know how the Wild
Cats leaped at the American Expedi- ,
tionary forces theatrical honors that
have yet to be officially awarded to
the best division show. i
The WTild Cats didn't want to become
publicly active in the theatri- ;
cal honor seeking until they had i
original "prey" at which to leap. The /
Wild Cats have gone wild, say out- <
siaers, wno are aware or me greai'
ness of the simplicity of the Eighty- :
; first division's original show. 1
i In presenting the plans for the ;
Eighty-first division show, General
Bailey's doughboys threaten to run ;
away with the theatrical honors of <
the American expeditionary force, 1
according to professional theatrical ;
people who are "over there" with <
"overseas units." Mention has been ]
made, editorially, in Paris newspa- 1
pers that theatricals have broken j
out like a rash in the American expeditionary
force. 'Tis the absolute
truth.
Every division is producing a
show. There's a likeness, however, 1
to each and every division show thus !
far presented?a similarity of ideas
to perfect the formation. It ap- 1
pears that no division believes it can 1
produce a show without adding the
irofessional talent Included in the di- fision.
By this is meant the profesional
talent which comprises sol- ?
liers who were taken from profes- G
ional stage life by the army's call. ?c
It is squarely in the middle of the ei
'big hurrah" over doughboy enter- f1
ainment that the Wild Cats leap in- _
o the front with an original show
or the American expeditionary
orce. The Wild Cats have meowed
heir motto thusly: "A strictly
loughbov show without professional
alent." This motto has hurled
nuch attention toward the entertainment
efforts of the Eighty-first division.
Can you imagine a soldier who
was working behind the plow in
Alabama or a lad more accustomed
:o walking through the everglades ?
Df Florida than assuming the thes- ?
pian attitude, being whipped into _
:he cast of a show that Paris will
witness? There's romance in the i
:hought, isn't there? Well, it's this c
A 1 A TTTJ 1 Pr* U'ontoH I ?
"oniance mat me v> nu v,aw mauivu ?
i;o insert into their show, and it's
romance that will surround their
show. And what is more?the idea
is being speedily whipped into reality,
so much so that the rehearsals
bave been amusing to officials from
Paris who have seen them. The premiere
of the Wild Cats will be made
it Mussy on February 11, with
mother presentation at Chaumont
before General Pershing, with the
final trip to Paris in competition
v.-ith the other shows. The Wild
Pats are just bent on grabbing the
A.merican expeditionary force medal.
Except for the managerial end.
which happens to be Private Joe
Goodwin of the Three Hundred and
Twenty-second infantry and the writer,
the Eighty-first division will not
have a single professional actor.
Private Goodwin is no other than the
'Joe" Goodwin of song-writing fame,
being the author of "Liberty Bells."
"When I Walk With Billy," "That's
How I Xeed You." and other popular
sentimental songs known in every
American household where popular
music is recognized. And it is the
same Private Goodwin, who is one
of the song writers of America who
actually saw service at the front?
the other being "Joe's" pal, Jimmy
Hanley, of the Eighty-second division.
"Private Joe" has written all the
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SOIlgS OI lilt? w iiu auu 10 yivducing
the show. One of the song
hits promises to be "I'm in France
Tonight *But My Heart is in the U.
S. A."
The idea of the Wild Cat show is
going to be kept a secret i 'iil it is
offered for A. E. F. appr< val, but
those in the show are satisfied it will
strike the A. E. F. with a bang, since >
it will be characteristic of the same [
beginning as surrounds the formation
of General Pershing's army?a
cast of untried lads in an occupation
new to them. Catch the spirit, dear
reader?
The whole Eighty-first division is
behind the theatrical unit. The unit
has but one thing in mind?the ambition
to win the A. E. F. medal
out of material that will be best
for having a strictly doughboy showknown
only by those who witnessed
the firm assemblage of the unprofessional
talent."?Color Sergt. Walter
S. Duggan, Three Hundred and
Twenty-fourth Infantry, Eighty-first
Division.
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