The evening world., 1909-03-12
Judges Awarded Silver Cup to
Miss Cameron, Promoter
Gave it to Cooper.
NOW THERE'S \ SUIT.
Incidentally Publishers Decide
They Were "FalI Guys"
For Moulin Rouge Bail.

irOp!r WHO went nome cary. MIirh
ls to say before > o'clock IN tho morn.
Ing. missed the hest of the so-cnllrd
Moulin Rouge ball Mt suffers Harlem
River Casino II became II perfectly
lovely party about the time the con-
test for the music puhlishera' LOVING
cup was settled.
The music publishers, he Il known,
were the fall guys' If that ball They
paid twenty-five bones each Tor boxes.
There were twenty or more OF thon
who were stung They hung then
names over the fronts of the boxes and
planted singers, one in each box and
prepared to struggle nightly for the
silver cup. which was to he the re-
ward of the publisher who turned ont
the most popular song for the ap.
preaching season.
\ person calling himself Joseph Ray
mond, said TO he n booking agent, hut
calling himself n newspaper man" he
cause he once solicited advertising for
theatrical weekly, promoted the bal
and the contest.
The music publishers took the affair
seriously So did RAYMOND lie also
took the money. to which he was on
titled. no, only legally, but because
he needed 1t.
They stuck It Out"
The music publishers didn't think
much of what they got after the ball
started There were the usual fifty
year.old hatchet-faced cut-ups In knIck-
erbockcrs and spangles who are to be
found wandering around the floor with
thirsty smile at balls like that There
we're pathetic girls who have spent
three months savings 10 buy costumes
OF che-st cloth and tnsel which by
, midnight look Ike Inauguration day
| decorations after Washington bliz-
2ard And there was the usual con
g!omeratIon OF hartcnders, plumbers
helpers. restaurant omatOuses and other
wearers OF hired dress suits"
But stlll, Moulin Rbuge prize win
ner" seemed to be a profitable adver-
| llSlnE ltbtl " NC uNNhNH'' " N'Aib'
for sale to the public of Kokomo, Ind.
and Gregory. 5. D., and the publishers
stuck II out to fight for the prize.
The contest started at | o'clock yes
terday morning From one box after
mother arose self-pOssessed singer
person with an over-stufted upholstery
face and turned loose music on the
helpless night air
Gave Singers Little Show
The mob on the floor below swaycd
and surged under the balconies and
| practically drowned out the singers
voices by audible and not always
pleasant criticisms OF their figures and
rompleXions A man at the end of the
sallery worked Il blucsreen search
| light which he turned on the singer
with ghastly effect. Sometimes he
shifted II to fat brunette who sat
| all alone In box on the right Side of
the gallery and threw cards bearing
her name and address down on the
crowd every time public attention came
her way,
| Real bitterness didn't develop teX-
| cept on the part Of tady who wanted
| a man arrested because he wouldn't
| give her a light for her cigarette) UNI
| I'll tho Peck-Snyder people were called
on for their contribution They sprung
a horrible sensation, universally con
| demned by the other publishers as a
| violation OF professional etiquette 1t
| was nothing less tnan full brass
| band with and including Bert Morphy
| known in Dallas. $. D.. and other boom
| towns throughout the northwestern
real estate belt as the Human Bally-
hoo Who sings to Beat the Band
Morphy did It was a neat little
sonorous thing called Dream OF the
L. s. A."
Claimed a Foul.
There WAS another general claim OF
foul when Harry Cooper with himself
as tenor came to the rail with not only
the members OF his own quartette, but
reinforced by the Herald Square quar-
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| referred TO as the goats. were Aoram
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