When Irving Berlin
was Drafted

“Merely to say that these shows are as good as the average Broadway piece is grossly to undervalue them. Yip! Yip! Yaphank!, for example, is vastly better. It has, of course, one immeasurable advantage over the commercial music show, for the fact that it is being played by men in service can never, for a moment, be lost from sight. The fact is of greatest value, of course, when the ‘female‘ chorus is on the stage, and then, assuredly, no one can forget that these chorus maidens are soldiers. The chorus of Yip! Yip! Yaphank! is guaranteed to be one long laugh whether one regards the third from the left, the fourth from the right, or the ensemble in general. Whoever picked its members was nothing less than inspired.”

Concerning the image posted above: the figures dressed in white are not transsexuals, they are wearing theatrical costumes.