The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-22
'DIPFIDENT LAMBS
TO PARADE TO-DAY
Shrinking Souls Will Appear to
Public Gaze Right on
Broadway.
REHEARSE THEIR GAMBOL
All There But Wilton Lackaye,
Who Neglected to Stay Up
and Oversight.

Two bodies Of matter. as THE SUN has
said exclusively on many occasions. can |
not occupy the same space at the same
time.
All Fifth avenue, as you know around
5 o'clock P. NJ is cluttered solidly with
limousine and touring and roadster and
runabout bodies. A cop merely raises a
hand at any cross street to flick a ny
off his nose and what happens? The
horse OF the leading grocer OF Totem
Vile. away down south In Staten Island.
not noticing that everything ahead OF him
had stopped at the FIRST movement OF the
Fifth avenue cops hand. stubs his nose
against the truck that has come to "A
stop Just ahead Of him.
Nevertheless right down Fifth avenue
take II from Charley Emerson Cook
about that hour to-day the actor persons
who are going to take part In tho open
ing performance OF the Lambs all star
gamhol tonight at the Metropolitan
opera House are going TO pee-rade down
Fifth avenue, let the lmousines fan
where they may. And in the pee-rade
also will be all the all star Lambs who
happen to have regular Jobs which pre-
vent them from taking part in the show
Get Out of the Way, Folks.
Commissioner Woods himself was won
dering yesterday how the darned pee
.ade and the automobiles will be able to
occupy the same space at the same time.
But Raymond Hitchcock got an Idea
(Which, between ourselves. was suggested
by Charley Cook). Raymond said gosh
darn II, C'mish. pay lot OF attention TO
me. Send Frank Mcintyre and Tom Wise
ahead backwards-I'd do II myself II !
wasn't so narrow across the blas-and
through the opening those two wide folks
make your mounted police escort can
bore into the flock OF automobiles and
the pee-rade can follow after into the
vacuum.
SO that's what's going to be done.
They'll gather at the clubhouse about
40 O'Clock this afternoon. all having left
a special call TO be awakened without fail
| AT 80 o'clock this afternoon, despite the
| fact that all the CHANDELIERS had to stay
| IN the night before last in order to report
~ the Metropolitan Opera House yester-
day at II 80 o'clock for an all afternoon
and evening dress rehehrsal-all except
Wilton Lackaye. who got the nut notion
| that he could take a sleep and wake up all
BY himself yesterday morning.
milton Lackaye Disappoints.
! Billion didn't. lie wasn't there. Old
George Hobart author OF the star number
Of the All Star Gambol. "EXperience"--the
best number OF Its kind, by the way, ever
given inside or outside OF Gambol or
any place else--had 10 cry peevishly at
the rehearsal yesterday when linton $
brother Billion didn't make his entrance
! (Bllton being asleep some place., "Oh.
holly. toity." la word OF one syllable.
And then the great author had 10 go "on,' -
Ms IN hand and act UP on top OF the
stage the part OF Crime, which Billion
Lackaye should have been UP and doing.
Ethel Barrymore Is not member of the
Lambs Laurette Taylor. of whom Hart
Icy Is her husband, is New York born
she's one OF the old Kn!ckerbocker family
Of Cooneys--but Loretto is not a Lamb.
Mollie Mcintyre is not even an American
citizen and therefore not Lamb. Neither
are Charlotte Granville. Grace George,
Mrs De Wolf Hopper. May Mackenzie,
Margaret Anglln-who Is even Canadian
Julian Eltinge, Pauline Frederick
none OF them Is a Lamb.
All Up Bright and Early at Noon.
Nevertheless they were all up bright
and early at high noon yesterday and
seated expectantly In the gloom OF the
Metropolitan Opera House, awaiting the
first holler OF Shepherd Bill Courtleigh OF
the club to raise the curtain and disclose
the gorgeousness OF the dress rehearsal
, For shame, Billion Lackayel But Billion
promised after his morning shower late
last night that he surely will be on hand
for the big pee-rade this Afternoon and
the big show In the town hall tonight
Charley Cook says It will be some pee
rade and as Charley Is the publicity man
OF the Gambol he ought to know what he
is talking about. Following the blunt
nosed flying wedge formed by Tom Wise
,,l MnTpfNra walking hapkWa rl
busting interfering automobiles right and
, left. will come through tho hole q
squadron of mounted police.
From the clubhouse in Forty-fourtf
, street promptly at 4:I5-whether Billion
Lackaye has got up In time or not-the
parade will march west this afternoon
| Then Il will go down Broadway to Forty
second street. to Fifth avenue, to Twenty
fifth street, TO Broadway and TO the stage
door OF the Metropolitan Opera House.
And Then-the Actors!
Back OF the mounted police. none o,
whom is a Lamb either. will be half a
dozen regular army trumpeters. Their
will come parade OF automobiles, which
will include about every actor owned ma
chine In town, except Carter DeHaven's
pearl gray taffeta car.
Then-hold your horses, men !--comes
Sousas band, with John Philip himself
actually parading and leading for the
first time he has done 1.-THE street pa
rading-slnce one afternoon n generation
ago when he led the Marine Band along
the streets OF Washington. And follow
Ing Sousa's band on foot will be enough
great actors on foot, all dolled up In
white plug hats and things. to make more
than a mess.
They all hate TO do II, the actors do
this thing OF marching right through the
, / streets where people can see them, But
they love their club and so they will suffer
the humiliation OF being looked at RICH,
out In public And once they reach the
Metropolitan Opera House stage door they
intend to burnt cork themselves and rs
themselves right out In skirts and things
> and give the greatest gambol ever given
since Nero struck up the opening chords
for the burning OF Rome, Charley Cook
: says. and Charley Is the press agent and