Ada L. Ward
Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 28
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Excerpt from My Greatest Adventure, Vol. 25 It came in a very ordinary way, just as a telephone call. I was sitting in my office one Monday afternoon, when my telephone bell rang, and a voice said: "Can you be ready to go to France on Saturday? We are sending out a concert party to entertain the soldiers. We have already a quartette of two ladies and two gentlemen singers, a violinist and a pianist, and we are just short of a - well - a comic turn!! We have already had a conjurer, a ventriloquist, and an elocutionist, and now the boys are wanting a change. One of them has written from France to say: 'Try and get hold of Ada Ward and her blackboard, and send her along.'" Within half an hour of receiving that telephone message, I was being interviewed by Miss Lena Ashwell, a brilliant English actress, who is the very soul of this great work of entertaining our troops on active service. My only previous acquaintance with her had been as a distant admirer on this side the footlights. It was good to meet her face to face and to find her a gracious, charming and loving woman, as well as a clever actress. I think I must have given a certain amount of preliminary satisfaction for she told me to go to the Foreign Office next day and put in an application for my passport. I did so, and was told it would be ready for me in forty-eight hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.