Redpath Bureau Has Tents Ready for Army Camps; Is Making Program
Myron A. Kesner, of the war department commission on training camp activities has received a letter from the officers of the commission in Washington to the effect that the Redpath lyceum bureau has placed at the disposal of the government all its Chautauqua tents, 106 in number, and the pick of all the talent controlled by the bureau. The cooperation of a number of theatrical managers has been assured, who will assist in selecting the entertainers.
The present plan is to pick the best of all the talent controlled by the lyceum bureaus, and make 32 programs which will be one for each cantonment and national guard camp in the country. Marc Klaw, of the firm of Klaw & Erlanger, has been appointed on the commission, and will be given charge of all arrangements for this undertaking.
The local service board will cooperate in very possible way, and the whole matter will be under the whole matter will be under the instruction of Brig. Gen. F. G. Mauldin, the new division commander of Camp Cody.
Mr. Kesner has been advised that the tents are on board cars, and will be shipped, in charge of a manager and crew, as soon as arrangements to handle the proposition have been completed. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Thursday – September 20, 1917