New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-12
SOCIETY HELPS ACTORS
Pauline Chase'S Photograph Col
lection Goes Fast.
BIG PRICES FOR DOLLS, TOO
Governor Gilchrist of Florida
and His Staff Meet with a
Roval Welcome.

| Raw Reveridse Baroness Won Wrede) and
coutesss r-Iementina Barte1ucci were the
| bright particular stars last night in the
constellation of beautiful women who gath
cred in the shekeIs from an admiring
throns of some five thousand visitors to the
! Actors Fund Fair at the list Regiment
| Armory Miss Beveridge presides over the
photograph booth filed with pictures that
! Pauline Chase, the Pink Pajama Girl,
| brought from England. sThe prices she got
| for autographed pictures of noted persons
ran from $50 to 500 each. Dolls dressed
| as we'll known English actors and actresses
also brought by Miss Chase were sold at
! top prices.
| The Comtessa Bartelucci. an ltahan
blond beauty. backed up by two side sho"
shoyters> in evening clothes, sells tickets for
] the Montgomery and Stone prizehshts'
When Donald Brian, by singing THE Merry
Widow waltz song. drew the crowd to the
southeast corner of the big armory, the
side show management were panicstricken
until Fred Stone got out his lariat. He did
his turn in front of the entrance, and 1t
proved the stronger attraction
| The assassination scene from Julius
Caesar was played in the theatre last
night by members of The Players, and
tonight the one-act <playlet White
Roses" will be produced, with Mrs. Whit
| fen in the cast. She played in the piece
when Daniel Frohman put it on eighteen
years ago at the old Lyceum Theatre
| Georgia Cayvan was also in the cast at
| that time.
| With l25s votes to his credit, H. b.
| Warner was the leader last night for the
| Lester Wailack watch and Donald Brian
was second in the race. Joe" Grisn1er was
| the crack rifle shot, having scored 20 out OF
| a possible 80. and Annette kellermann was
| the best woman rife shot, with a score OF
e. The rifle gallery was in charge of Miss
| Fanny Cannon, assisted by Captain Robert
Huen, of the list Regiment. J. Randolph
Cook, with 500 votes chalked up was the
most popular Elk, with Harry Leonhardt
second in the race with 653 votes.
Mrs George Gould and her daughter
VivieD assisted Mrs James Speyer at the
| floral booth in the afternoon and evening
Miss Could carried wicker tray
\ filled with roses, slung upon her shoulder
with a crimson ribbon. She received s
! apiece for some of the flowers. Among
| others who assisted Mrs. Speyer were Mrs
Ebert H. Gary, Mrs. John R. Drexel and
Mrs Nicholas Murray Butler. Kingdom
| Gould was one of the lavish buyers from
| the pretty snow girls OF tne 1dir. hTS
| Gould and Mrs. Speyer entertained a num-
Der of their friends in the cafe chantant
| and witnessed the novel "Chantecler
dance that is held there every afternoon
In the evening Governor Gilchrist of Flor
ida, with his staff, was received at the
Southern Booth by Mrs. Paul Forester anC
Miss Charlotte Walker, who are in charge
| of the booth. After the reception, at which
Southern delicacies were served by a negro
/ nanny sent on by the New Orleans
| Board of Trade, the Governor aucttoned on
the souvenir spoons that he gave to the
fair.
| The rafting OF goods will be held every
night at 9 o'clock during the remaining
| days of the fair. More than S1,Ooo wortf
were disposed of last night. The larges
spender yesterday afternoon was Mrs
P. CLANCY. better known TO stage folk al
Julia Arthur who distributed more thai
| 81 900 among the various booths. She alst
| gave a solid silver tea set
| Anna Held and her daughter, Lame, spen
some $500. They attracted attention o.
carrying it In large rolls of 81 bills. JONI
| Drew came in from Bridgeport. where ne
is playing, to spend the afternoon at the
| fair.