New-York tribune., 1906-04-29
SAN FRANCISCO BENEFITS.

Numerous benefits for San Francisco are
scheduled this week. Chief among them is that
at the Metropolitan Opera House next Friday,
when everybody. from Sembrich down to vaude-
willie performers, will appear. So long is the
list of volunteers, in fact, that the programme
is not yet made up. AS seats are to be only 81,
the house should be packed from noon till
midnight. No Continuous bill before was ever
so loaded with big names.
At the Hippodrome tonight Victor Herbert
directs an orchestra Of three hundred and fifty
musicians in an excellent programme for the
benefit of the San Francisco sufferers. He will
be reinforced by Lillian Russell, Eugene
Cowles. Blanche Duffield David Warfeld and
the choruses of the FRITZ Scheh, Free Lance"
and Hippodrome companies.
The annual vaudeville benefit for the Actors
Fund. the proceeds OF which are TO be forward
ed to San Francisco, to be used in aneliorating
the distress existing among members of the pro-
fesson in and around the stricken city, will be
given at the Academy of Music tonight with
array OF headline attractions. This benefit
had been announced almost two weeks before
the calamity occurred in San Francisco and was
to have been the regular yearly benefit for the
Actors Fund, the general needs of which
pressing enough but which were swallowed up
In the more immediate needs incident to the
calamity.
The benefit will be under the direction OF Dan
lei Frohman. president Of the Actors Fund. and
Antonio Pastor. chairman of the committee
The bill now includes Lillian Russell Vesta Vic
toria. "Slivers," Dave Lewis. BILLY Clifford
Fields and Ward. Hoey and Lee, Kelley and
Kent. Elmer Tenly, Four Emperors of Music,
Annie and Jennie Yeamans Brown, Harris and
Brown William Gould and Valeska Suratt, Two
Pucks, the Brownings, Frank Bush. Edna Luby,
Marco Twins. Adamini and Taylor. Lucille La
Verne who will appear in a mOnOlOgue specially
written for the occasion by Mrs. Ruth McEnery
Stuart. and many others
The benefit planned by the Messrs Shubert
for the earthquake sufferers in San Francisco
VIII be given tonight promptly at o'clock at
the Casino Theatre This performance is under
the auspices Of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and
Mrs. William X Vanderbilt. jr.. and under the
active direction of Henry Miller. The entire
receipts will be turned 70 the relief commit
tee appointed by Mayor Mcclellan and IT Is
expected that the realized will be large.
The entertainment will begin with the Boot
blacks Chorus from The Social WhirP': Mrs
Z. F. Collins will sing, and Melville Ellis will
be heard in his pianOlogue Ross and Fenton
will do a travesty and De Wolf Hopper and
VIII Danforth will sing the comic song How
l Love Flowers" from "Happyland." Henry
Woodruff and the college boys from Brown OF
Harvard" will contribute a speciality after which
a chorus of one hundred will sing the state
anthem Of California. Following this the various
stars who have volunteered for the perform
ance Will conduct an auction sale of flowers
After short intermisStOn Mrs. FfSke will be
in One-act play. Frederic Bond. Adele
Ritchie and Charles ]. Ross will sing Just
Kids from The Social Whirl" and Margaret
Anglin will read Bret Harte's "San Francisco"
Maude Raymond will sing "Bin Simmons" and
the performance is to be concluded by the ap-
pearance OF De Wolf Hopper and Henry Miller
in the bowling farce BOX and Cox"
Nine. ALA Nasimon. who is appearing