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Description: | Lively and amusing contemporary account (16pp) of her experiences as a member of the all-girl concert troupe The Five Royal Brewsters in Germany in 1914 covering her arrival in Hamburg to begin a tour in July 1914 and the problems and privations she and her companions endured after the outbreak of war with particular reference to their desperate efforts to obtain a passage home. the hostility they encountered from local inhabitants, financial difficulties and the fate of less fortunate compatriots; eventually, having received aid from a British relief fund and having been issued with a US passport the girls were able to masquerade as American students with their teacher and cross the German-Dutch frontier to safety circa September 1914. A photocopy of two undated presscuttings giving a somewhat different version of their adventures and a print of the concert troupe on arrival in England have been placed with the collection.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1987-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Neal, R A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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