WAR PRISONERS AS SUPERS
According to the "Aftenblnd' (a German paper), music-hall artists ivho hav.e returned from Berlin relate that hundreds of French, Russian, and Belgian prisoners of war are noting nightly as supers in a great war speotaole at the Circus Schumann. It was staged a few nights ago only after the greatest difficulties, as over -100 supers were wanted, and only a few could bo found. Hon- Schuiuannjippealcd to tho military authorities, who gladly permitted prisoners to act as "tho enemy" al a. salary of Is. per night, an opportunity which naturally offered a great attraction to many men with little or no means. Tho play contains a number of battle scenes supposed to represent incidents from tho present; wnr, and all; of course, ending in tho glory of Germany and the utter discomfiture of the borrowed prisoners, whose own war-stained uniforms ate presumably regarded as adding a sensational touch of reality to this typically rvGerjuau gho>;,
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2684, 2 February 1916, Page 5
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159WAR PRISONERS AS SUPERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2684, 2 February 1916, Page 5
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