At War with the Army
by James B. Allardice

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Highlights

Interior Set Comedy

Synopsis

This Broadway success is rife with hilarity and fun.

It does not sport an intricate plot, but instead relies mainly on the inherent humor of certain characters and situations.

It all begins in an Army camp down in the hills of Kentucky.

Sergeant Johnson, who practically runs the post, is trying to get a transfer from his dull desk job into a combat outfit.

A misunderstanding arises, however, involving a silly, gravid woman.

With this, everything seems to go cockeyed, and the farce is plummeted into a whirl of action involving a sad and lost little soldier who never says a word; a gangly hick who keeps getting tetanus shots every time he applies for a leave; a loud-mouthed, big-dealer sergeant; a colonel, whose wife receives army intelligence before him; a very green lieutenant; several fluttery women; and a handful of gold-bricks.

That, now, is an explosive and merry mixture!

Press Reviews

"In a fairly large cast, all of whose parts are of nearly equal importance, almost everybody contributes to the gayety."

— New York Herald-Tribune

"It is all high-spirited and noisy and idled with prankishness."

— New York Post

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573605567
ISBN-10 0573605564

At War with the Army is a comedy play written by James B. Allardice and published by Samuel French .

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