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Podcast: Open-Door Playhouse
Episode: THEATER 114: Switchboard Soldiers
Description: Send us Fan MailOpen-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcomingplay Switchboard Soldiers will debut on November 14, 2023 online at http://opendoorplayhouse.orgBefore women could even vote, Miss Banker leads the first corps of women that help turn the tide of World War I.This is an interview with the first woman soldier Chief Grace Banker of the Signal CorpsFemale Telephone Operators Unit. General John Pershing, commander of the AmericanExpeditionary Forces in WWI, demanded female “wire experts” when he d...