Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1918 — TEACHES SOLDIERS TO ACT [ARTICLE]

TEACHES SOLDIERS TO ACT

James K. Hackett, the Actor, Is Di* rector General of Amusements, at Camp Devens. Camp Devens, Ayres, Mass.—After five months in bed, five months on crutches and five months walking with the aid of a cane, James K. Hackett, the noted actor, is today enjoying army life at this big camp teaching the boys how to act. He is director general of amusements for the Knight§ of Columbus, arid Is to .make a tour of all the big army camps. He is showing the boys how to put on shows and how to amuse themselves by acting. “We don’t need scenery—Shakespeare didn’t,” declared Hackett. “These men will learn the trick.”