The San Francisco call., 1909-02-17
Benefit BY Society
For Hospital IS
Now Ready

Tonight the Kirmess, grown to
healthy youth from a childhood of con-
slant rehearsals, will face public opin-
ion at the Central theater.
With its artistic pictures, its pretty
dancers and its touches of almost every
variety of merit. the ,Kirmess has de-
served all praise bestowed.
There are more reasons for the Kir-
mess than that it is capably handled
that it is beautiful or its dancers grace
full. Those reasons will be perhaps
forgotten in the gayety of tonight and
the succeeding nights. but the suffer-
ing tots at the Childrens hospital and
the poor mothers at the San Francisco
maternity home will never forget the
kindness of the men and women who
have Iabored that their pains and hard
ships might be erased and in many
cases driven out of existence.
GOOD SUM REALIZED
About $4,000 has been realized to
date from the sale of tickets The
financial end of the kirmess has been
as ably handled as the dancing
The Central theater has been deco
rated for the occasion and will not suf-
fer from comparison with the costumes
of the dancers
Tickets will be sold all day today at
the Van Ness avenue stores of Sherman,
Clay g. Co. Tickets will also be on
sale al the theater box office. For to-
night and Saturday night but few
tickets are left, and it is probable that
these few will be sold today. 1t is
expected that the kirmess will realize
at least $4,000
Rehearsals were held yesterday at the
theater and will be held again today
almost up to the last minute. Yester-
days rehearsals showed that the dane
ers were ready for their best efforts
INDIAN DANCE IMPRESSIVE
The Indian dance in addition to the
tuneful music possesses many impress
I've features, The warwhoops are life
like and the Indians the same. Unlike
some stage Indians, these are not of
the cigar store variety. The weird yet
picturesque costumes of true sons of
the forests are depicted in two special
ties. wigwam dance by Mrs Lathrop
Ellinwood and .Hillyer Deuprey is as
clever a piece of acting as there is in
the kirmess. The Awakening" is inn
pressive, and +. A. Corbusier is an ex-
cellent warrior paying homage to the
rising sun
Miss Grace Wilson and Lieutenant E.
E. Pritchett are two stars of a whole
Indian constellation.
unique feature of the kirmess
starts early tonight. The voting CON
test for the most popular dance prom
ises one of the liveliest campaigns by
admirers that the city has seen. Four
or five society wits led by Lawrence
Harris will conduct the bidding The
votes will be counted Saturday and
prizes will be given to those taking
part in the most popular dance.
Candy booths, candy sellers in cos
tune, a Victrola and an automobile
will be among the side line attractions
of the kirmess.
Another attraction will be Ned Green
way, who leads the grand march and
then goes through little speciality all
by himself Greenway's speciality it is
rumored. has disturbed the foundations
of the Fairmont hotel on the occasions
when the rehearsals were held in the
Norman room. Greenway has blush
ingly admitted he is slightly over
weight, and the portly figure seen on
the ocean boulevards on several morn
ings recently, trying to keep pace with
milk wagon. may have had some con-
nection with the kirmess. Perhaps.
however, it was someone training for
a Marathon run.