The Theater: Grand Lawsony

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.—Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare.

In Atlanta last week men jested at scars who most decidedly had felt a wound. In a Red Cross recreation hall, patients at the Army's Lawson General Hospital staged a rowdy revue called Grand Lawsony in which they kidded hospital life, Army red tape, and their own injuries. Most of the actors, and three of the four authors, were amputees.

Of the 600 people in the audience, about a hundred were nervous girls invited to a dance after the show. The rest...

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