The Diamond Palace Saloon and Army Sketches in France
In rest billets the narrator recounts forming Empey and Wallace Theatrical Co and writing The Diamond Palace Saloon a two act farce about Abe Switch and Bowery life. He describes rehearsals, a London printing proof, rival performances, rope stairways for box seats, and colorful characters amid army life including gambling and camaraderie among Tommies and officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empey & Wallace Theatrical Co
Diamond Palace
London
David Belasco
Tommy
Bowery
Bowers
New York
Diamond Police
The
Abe Switch
Pumpkinville Center
Tenn
Tom Twistem
Willem Up
Abe
Tom
Willem
Joey Cohenstein
Ikey
Sumbo
Porter
Broadway
Kate
Alkali Tke
Houghton
Watkins
Muchbuyer
Ife
Kelly
Highbrows
Evtry
Chats With Fritz In War Time Machine Gun Tactics
The narrative recalls a brigade sending volunteers to machine gun school at St Omar. After two weeks, the writer joins the brigade machine gun company and endures front line duty, a bombing raid, and a tense prisoner exchange. One prisoner, Carl Schmidt, a Bavarian, recounts life in New York and London, trading stories over rum and Woodbines.
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Flossie
Sphner
Curley Wallace
King George the Fifth Theater
Ammo Street
Sandbag Terrace
London
France
Ikey Cohenstein
Winston Churchill
Jones
George
Fritz
England
New Zealand
Tommy
Berlin
Suicide Club
Lown
Carl Schmidt
Sixty-sixth
Bavarian Light Infantry
New York
Coney Island
Hans Wagner
Russell
Germany
St. Paul’s Cathedral
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Aittle
Alkali Ike
Alkaali
Tommies
Frances
Atkins
Virginia
Old McGuffy
Light Brigade
Balaclava
Gallipoli
Neuve Chapelle
Loos
Red Cross
Albert
Belgium
Erin’s Isle