New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
Children, Act for Charity
To Present Grown-up Play That East Side
Girls May Have Vacations.

their mother. also little. but vigilant
George Tobin Is Lieutenant Governor Of
New YORK, IL a high silk hat from under
which his big. blue, long-lashed eyes look
grave!y as he says his lines with immense
. dignity. Vivian. the girl OF the family,
about thirty inches high and as broad as
she is Ions. isn't grave about anything.
You're not in the playa little thing
like you" says q visitor, To tease her.
You bet am. / am the bellboy III the
hotel scene says Vivian. proudly, and off
she goes 10 the dressing rooms, TO race
back a minute later in suit more buttons
than CLOTH
Suddenly there IL rush to one side of
the stage. A big man ha. appeared with
what Is il in his arms? A doll? No, II Is
Alma Sedley. the weel Kitty, on the reg
ular cast Now, in a mushroom hat and
trained pink gown. cut down from one of
Miss Robson's, she is to be Rose Lane.
the leading woman. The big man seats her
on a high box. from which she looks down
with serene grace the children, who
flock around adoringly TO do her homage.
Alma. who is seven years old. went on
al eighteen months and is no more afraid
20 speak her lines TO a sea OF faces than
she is TO eat her bread and milk at supper.
a great traveller is Alma. She was born
in the Klondyke. and she has been pretty
much everywhere with her actor-parents
Once she engaged the attention OF the
courts in Chicago It held that so
small a child shouldn't be on the stage
and the judge was especially concerned 10
see an American child growing up without
education.
Does your honor speak French" asked
the attorney for the defence. IF so, will
You ask the child something in that IAN
euage?'
The Judge said his French wasn't very
good. but he'd do his best. Alma replied in
fluent French to his hating effort, and he
admitted that her education didn't seem 10
have been neglected.
Surely a smaller leading women was
never seen than the Rose Lane who will
appear at next Fridays matinee perform
auce. When. in imitation Of Miss Lsurette
Taylor, she tries to lean over the back of
a chair and look at her father, the banker.
her chin Just reaches TO the top of the
chair. When she says to her lover. Lee
Randall-the former Jimmy Valentine
Take me- in your arms, Lee l love you
the fathers and mothers watching the re-
hearsal from the wings murmur isn't she
funny" But it isn't funny 10 Alma. Very
While the child actors are earnestly re-
hearsing. Mrs. Speyer is selling seats and
boxes.
''We-myself and others interested in the
University Settlement work-are so anxious
10 have this benefit bring in a good sum
Of money for the Working Girls Summer
Home" Mrs. Speyer said. The greater the
sum the greater the number OF East Side
girls to whom we will be able TO give a
short vacation from the hot city next
summer
\ long list of patronesses has been Sc
cured by Mrs. Speyer. Among them
Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mrs. John
Claiin. Mrs Henry Clews. Mrs. Bourke
Cochran, Mrs. Robert Fulton Cutting,
Mrs. Charles II. Ditson, Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish, Mrs. Ebert II. Gary. Mrs. George J.
Could, Mrs. John II. Iselin, Mrs. Paul
Morton, Lady Paget, Miss L. Louise Sands,
Mrs. T. Suffern Tailor. Mrs Vanderbilt
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. W. K. Van
derblt, tr., Mrs. F. Eserton Webb and
Mrs. Henry Willard.