Entertaining the Doughboys (Two Accounts of American Concert Parties ’Over There’ During the First World War-Entertaining the American Army by James W. Evans & Gardner L. Harding and Trouping for the Troops by Margaret Mayo)
Putting on a show for troops who marched under the ‘stars and bars’.Concert parties performing for soldiers on campaign were unknown before the First World War, but British entertainment troupes, after much opposition from military authorities, eventually began performing for ‘the boys over there’ on the Western Front.
