The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-28
CAMb0L Of LAMBS
PROMINENT ACTORS WILL HOLD
HIGH CARNIVAL TONIGHT.
They Are to Give a Minstrel Show:
Also De Wolf Hopper Is to APP
pear in the Role of Marc ANTONY:
Old Timers Mix Up in Roman
Mob; Many Other Stunts Are On
the Program.
Especial to The Free Press.I

New York, May IA thousand
mile allstar gambol of the lambs,
which has enlisted the services of
nearly every actor of prominence in
the country and will embrace all the
large cities of the east and central
west, will be inaugurated tonight
when the curtain goes up for the I'M
tial gambol at the Metropolitan Opera
House.
The purpose of the gambol is to get
money with which to buy land for a
new club house The present quar-
tiers of the Lambs in Forty fourth
street, between Broadway and Sixth
avenue, were acquired only a short
time ago, but so rapid has been the
growth of the organization that a
larger home is necessary.
Long-Distance Gambol.
This years gambol is the first long.
distance one in eleven years. After
tonight's performance, the Lambs will
board the special train for tour of
the kind to which politics has fastened
the name, "whirlwind." They will ap-
pear in New Haven, Boston, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore.
Pittsburg and Chicago
The membership of the Lambs club
embraces not only all the principal ac-
tors in America, but also the promi-
nent playwrights and composers, most
of the big managers and many lead
ing members of the New York Stock
Exchange, besides politicians, lawyers,
doctors and merchants.
One remarkable feature of the com.
ing gambol will be the fact that the
theatrical lion and lamb will lie down
together. Abraham L. Eranger has
personally arranged the bookings:
Joseph Brooks is the general business
manager; Charles F. Cooke. of the Be-
lasco forces, is attending to the pub
LEFTY, and in the course of the tour the
Lambs will appear in a Belasco The
atre; Augustus Thomas, cheperd of
the club, will be the general amuse-
ment director.
Hopper as Marc Antony.
The entertainment will consist of
negro minstrel show; Big Four song
and dance; scene from "Julius
Caesar" with De Wolf Hopper as
Mare Antony, and forty stars and
leading men making up the Roman
mob, and a sketch, Tuesday Morning."
by George V. Hobart, which will show the
rehearsal of a melodrama on the
morning after the opening night, in
response to adverse criticism. Music
will be supplied by Victor Herbert,
Reginald de Koven, Harry Rowe, Shell
ley, Victor Harris, A. Baldwin Sloan
and others.
The special train in which the
Lambs will make their flying trip will
consist of baggage car, club car,
four sleepers, two dining cars and
compartment car Two of the sleep
ers will be occupied by Victor Herbert
and his band. Another sleeper is for
twenty lay members, who will con.
tribute $500 apiece in the way of fare.
Inns VIII pay the cost OF the entire
train. At their own request these lay
members, who are wealthy brokers,
will appear in the ensemble scenes of
the performance as supernumeraries.
Old ServitorS on Train.
The train will be manned by the
servants of the club, the old servitors
who are familiar with the wants of the
individual members. The club car
will be stocked from the cellar of the
Lambs and the members will sign
checks for their refreshments. Just as
they do in the club house in Forty
fourth street.
Upon the arrival of the special train
in a city the Lambs will attire them
selves in regular minstrel parade
style, with the gray Prince Albert
suits, pongee over coats and high white
hats. When the time permits there
will be an old-fashioned minstrel pa
rade. headed by Herbert's Band.
When the Lambs toured the coun
try eleven years ago the gross receipts
of the week We're $4,000. 1t is ex-
pected that the coming trip will net