The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-07
GREAT MEN OPEN ACTORS FAIR.
OPERA HOUSE HUNS WITH
DIVERSE INDUSTRY.

rorbstt Doorman for q Vaudeville Sh0W
Mrs. Stuyvcsant Flsh seiunE "Al
About New York Society for ~
~Cepts"-MrS. Eddy IL Ket Forgotten
President Roosevelt pulled the trigger q
Tho White House OF 2 O'Clock ycoterday
sttsrnoon end q cannon rel on In the
Metropolitan Opera House balcony here.
4 Cock Of midget American flags iuttercd
down to the stage and into the midst OF the
6,,ter advanced Daniel Frohman. Mr.
Frobuan thanled-Mrs. A. NJ. Palmer
,,d Milton Roblee-nnd the Century Thea
~. Club (Hear thati)-and introduced
Ns,x Twain TO open the Actors Fund Fair.
sIt's tr,e,' said Mark. shat charity
Goes disclose virtues. For instance. Mr..
Frohnaan here had promised 70 give a short
+ bistory Of tho organization and he's done
t-rndc IL Shorthand it's q virtue
Ho won; on to cay that actors had been
irving their lives 10 be our b~enefactors, and
now it was the publio's turn. No cresds
bere-iust n lot OF people oil actuated by the
,o,rpiaoen: religion Of charity. And tie
nm 70 you to buy" Mr.. Clemens intoned
anally. You won't be robbed or perez
outed. and you'll get your change back. !
declare the fair opened. Get busy
80 somebody pinned a red %oarnntion on
/ ,tc ABEL Of Mr.. Clemens's glistenlng white
darnel coat. II was a paper one from a
Moth down below. Tucked under the right
winr If Dan Frohmeu he descended and
landed ~ Maude Msdison's collection Of
autographs Of the untaned great. And
right uader his nose there CLEANED up this
sentiment, wtea:hed in q little frame OF
bIaok;
Having an infinite God unihes men and
nations. constitutes the liberation Of the
world, erGs wars. fuldls the Scriptures.
Mary Baker q. Eddy
Hin" unused Marx. fine sentiment
/ Then he strolled past tho Century Theatre
Clubs booth, which he might have had the
lob Of opening II Christian Science had not
interrupted the programme while he was
a-ptrooting around of Old Point Comfort
last week, and maybe noticed that the
Works Of Mark Twain were on sale there
lust the sarnee. After that Mark got lost
in the crowd. for there was a crowd. Every
body OF the profesh. headliners and non-
oareils. who are in New York now was
there sometime and you were able to tell
the dig guns from the little ones because
most Of the former were booming from
somewhere amid the hundred or 50 booths.
while the little ones were on the floor.
The stalls OF the main floor are rugged up
10 resemble an .Elizabethan village. sup
posedly Stratford -on-Avon. the Players.
the Twelfth Night Club, the Actors Church
Alliance, the Professional Wonen's League,
the Japanese Fisherman Marshall P.
Wilder) and q lot moro are there. The
orchestra promenade is jnmmed with en-.
In one cubbyhole Ed Price is running the
fairs daily newspaper, the Spectator.
The Friars were going to help him but
didn't much with the first number.
James J. Corbett 10 doorman for a yaude-
vile show on the grand tier. Down the
line the Lambs nave O Cafe Chantant
boozeless. Mrs. S%tuyvesant Fish 10 engi-
neeIing a floral booth and selling AN
About New York Society for Is cents
Mrs.. James Speyer has the candy booth.
The Racing Wheel, with Amber Lawlord
to frisk the wheel around, made 500 and
over, the days record. Amelia Bingham
and Hope Booths millinery booth was
second. Miss Margaret Ellington led the
most popular actress vote right down
through the day, with Lillian Russell third.