The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-25
GREAT ACTORS IN
 BENEFIT PLAY
Highest Kind of Prices Are
 Paid for Choice Seats
MANAGERS ACT AS "SUPES"
Leading Actors of United States Take Part In the Performance Which Will Be Given In Many
 Cities.

' Now York, May 24-In consideration or
 Sn mo rendered them in amounts vary inc from s11oo for a partierre box and Sb
 for a. single orchestra chair to S2 TOT seat in the last row of the top balcony
 inc actors managers and playwrights who
 constitute the membership of the Lambs c1ub admitted the public tonight to one
 of their "gambols," the scene of which was transferred for the occasion to the Metropolitan opera house.
 Attracted by the presence of the cast
 of the evenings entertainment of some 15O stage celebrities and by the prospect of the unusual sight of David Belaseo' Augustus Thomas, Charles Klein, Al Er- langer, George Broadhurst and other equally prominent authors and managers in the role of stage personages ana 'su-
 pers, representative New York, fashion and fame, whether in letters, finance the stage or the professions, crowded into the Metropolitan opera house to witness
 the event
 Before the gambol, the lambs, 400 strong, paraded from their clubhouse in
 West Forty-fourth street to the theatre in a body with Victor Herbert and his orchestra of 50 pieces in the van, the ob- jects of an ovation which was but the forerunner of a noisier and more enthusi- astic welcome when the curtain rose upon the assembled black-faced group for the first number of the programme-an old time minstrel.
 With De Wolf Hopper as interlocutor and such favorites as Raymond Hitch cock, Eddie Foy, Nat M Wills, Maclyn Arbuckle, Charles Evans. Ignacio Marti- netti and Andrew Mack as end men; with Victor Herbert conducting and his or chestra of 50 accompanying the singing, this proved one of the best of the even ings many delightful features.
 The next number, the forum scene from Julius Caesar" served to bring before the footlights James O'NeilI as Brutus and De Wolf Hopper as Marc Antony. Supporting them in truly admirable fash ion were William Muldoon, William and Melville Stewart, George V. Hobart, Will ton Lacllaye. Dustin Farnum and others.
 The mob in itself was a remarkable ag gregation, among the supers being Digby Bell, David Belasco, George Broadhurst, Al Erlanger, Lew Fields, Clay M. Greene, Charles Klein, John Mason, Eugene w. Presbrey, Edwin Milton Royle, A. Bald win Sloane Augustus Thomas and Joe Weber.
 After Julius Caesar" came brief in- l termission and then Joe Weber and Lew l Fields assisted by a company of stars, gave their old speciality, entitled "A Game of Poot," which recalled the days when Weber and Fields were together and brought laughter till the tears came. This was followed by After the Matinee" a song and dance in which nine well-known lambs appeared as matinee girls.
 A sketch written by George V. hobart, entitled Tuesday" brought the per formance to close. The scene depicted was a stage during rehearsal on the morning after a New York first night"
 Wilton Lackaye was the. hero, Donald Bryan the heroine, Digby Bell the ward robe mistress, and Raymond Hitchcock the chorus girl
 The lambs will give a matinee in Hart ford and a night performance in Boston.
 On "Wednesday they play Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
 On Thursday they will be seen in Bal timore and Washington and on Friday in Cleveland and Pittsburg.
 Saturday they give two performances in Chicago.