Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-15
REAL BASKETBALL
IN EXTRAVAGANZA
Newark Beauties Will Play Ac-
tual Game in college Hero"
Performance.

There are so many novelties ana
.,,,nrises in the mammoth college
Jero'' production that the audiences
viii be kept on the alert eerVy mo
ment. Ill -
The group of basketball girls is
shown in today's Star. Ihey nave
realistic basketball game on the
stage. after which they will run to
the footlights and each kick regula-
lion size silk inflated basketoalls lar
out into the audiences.
Miss Phyllis Batson is the leader
Of the Basketball girls She has Sc
siected fourteen graceful girls for TINS
dahce. and they are indeed becoming
IN their jaunty basketball outfits Of
white boomers, white sweaters, Whlte
silk stockings and white satin dane
ling slippers.
Miss Batson's basketball girls are:
Florence Bell, Phyllis Batson, Bessie
Bush, Elizabeth Herndon Davis,
Dorothy Dilworth, Margaret Dolan,
FLORENCE Doggett, Murlel M. Hannay,
Ruth A. Huebel, Helen Hull, Florence
Rogers, Rose T. Weiss, Frances Dill
worth and Pa1!ine NJ. Weiss.
After the basketball game the girls
{ are Joined by the football men, and
they have g rollicl1ing dance on the
college campus to celebrate their lat
est victory. The football men, who
are led by L. B. Campton, are: Wal
ter Armstrong, Willard Butler, Vic
tor P. Campton. L. 3. Campton, Jack
Dolan, S. M. Emery, Jack Gardner,
william H Darlington, Mahlon Par
sons, jr, William H. Reeves, Edward
Smith, IT., Robert N. Shoemaker and
Charles Edward Taylor.
The grand full-dress rehearsal of
the entire second act in THE Col
.iege Hero will be conducted tonight
at the Trinity parish house. COM
meneing at 1880 o'clock. Rehearsals
are being conducted on the Shuhert
stage every day this week AL
Though three more days remain for
rehearsals, the performers could pei
fectiy enact their parts tonight in
istead of Monday, so well have they
been coached and trained
The grand premiere will be given
-next Monday night. The curtain
rises promptly at o'clock. Everyone
who has seen the show in other cities
/. declare that the first night will be
the BEST The first night will, at least,
be the greatest society night in New
ark of tile eight performances.
: Mrs. Campbell Clark, president OF
fhe committee of the Babies Hos
.bital which has 1.-THE College Hero"
in charge, and Mrs. Frederick F.
Guild, the chairman, express them
SELVES as delighted with the manner in
which everybody in Newark has
come to the support of this popular
benefit. II seems that everyone In
the city is helping the cause in every
possible way, from Mr.. Ottolengui,
the manager of the Shubert Theatre
where 1.-THE College Hero" is to be
presented, to the elevator boys in the
Kinney building, where the head
quarters are established. Hundreds
of people are taken up and down the
elevators every day to and from the
headquarters.
The box office for the sale and ex-
change Of seats opened at the Shu-
-oert Theatre this morning at 81
O'Clock. Seats are now on sale at the
box Office.
The committee is still asking for
more makeup people to assist in
snhaking up the faces of the 700 per-
formers. They are requested to call
at the headquarters, sos Kinney
s.building, if they will assist In this
work