Geoffrey Thurlow in France - December, 1915
from Letter from Geoffrey Thurlow to Vera Brittain, 15 Dec. 1916, pages 299-300:
After tea we went to the ‘Very Lights’ a concert party of — Div. which was excellent.The stage was draped with dark green & white in stripes and the pierrots were in dark green with white bobs.
‘A Long long Trail’ sung behind the curtain opened the show & it had a most pleasing effect. The dancing & everything else was topping but perhaps this was due to the fact that there was a stringband as opposed to the ordinary blare without violins etc. The man who was Columbine danced perfectly & was a jolly good impersonator. Our Div. lady is hopeless always mincing about & very gawky, … more >>
cite as
Letter from Geoffrey Thurlow to Vera Brittain, 15 Dec. 1916. In A. G. Bishop and Mark Bostridge (ed.), Letters from a lost generation : First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends - Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (:London, 1999), p. 299-300. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1400692447932 accessed: 18 April, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| A long long trail |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | December, 1915 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors |
Notes
Geoffrey was serving on the Western Front with the 10th Sherwood Foresters.
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Wed, 21 May 2014 18:14:08 +0100