The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05
$4,000 for Actors Fund Real
lied Last Night-MOre
Coming In To-day.

They banged the hell again last night.
the Lambs lads did. till 1t rang and
rang with a sound like real money.
And all the barrels of gold and silver
and bills that Tom Wise's troup OF starry
CHANDELIERS separated Broadway and
environs from at the Lambs All star
Gambol at the Century Theatre last
night-not to mention the gross tonnage
of chicken feed which beautcous ladies
gathered In around foyer and lobby
was sacked and stacked and tickcted
and s;r~aightway will he turned over TO
the Actors FunS.
Six thousand 1--WE hund ed and twen-
ty-nine dollars. not TO mention 30 cents
beside that. came INTO the Actors
Fund las, night through the safe of
And tina; wasn't all-not by $1,000
For besides thu seat sales at advertised
prices the premiums. or extra b.ddings
fer first night seats gathered in at the
recon. seat auction. made the sli, 0oO
additional. which when added TO the
sG.5.9 made-wel,. somebody Else at this
date of writing will have TO do the
! adding up. n to the total sum oi
p,u $4,000 must also be added ne
tween $3.50 and $3.50 realized from
the sale Of programmes. Mowers ana
candy by the aforesaid heauteous adies
In the foyer and lobby. or something
| around $4,000 for the evening.
True Talk by Daniel Frohm"n.
Also before statisticians foot w these
| amounts the returns from to-day = mat
inee and night performances VIII he com
ing in. Wherefore, Daniel Frohmar
smoke true talk when. after n glance
AZ figures las: night. he said That the
three performances will net the rune
about sac. 600, even when expenses ar
deducted. Furthermore
But with the memories Of all the gilt
ter and glory such as only n hrst nlgh
Gambol can fash forth, this is no time
to devote 10 'rithmetic,
In fact even Miss Jose Collins. frs
over the lobby line long before $ O'CLOCK
last night. said that the Lambs ma
made good and Miss Jose came there
straight from Missouri to he shown. Fol
at the recent seat auction she had made
n premium bid OF s25 above the regulal
price Of Sc for two seats, under the
supposition thai she would he set bacl
only s2l In all for the two seats, hui
the auctioneer proved to her conclu
sIyeIy that "A premium bid OF s25 mean
twenty-five bones on each seat. makini
a total of $50 for the pair of seats.
''And so this show tonight" Mis-
Collins remarked emphatlcally. has Il
be a hodderned good show to get
laugh out of me"
And II did.
Whether or not Chairman Tom Wise
.l,, lgI .hn,ts CNTarNthinu else In cor
nection with the ~inside-outs!de and out
side-lnside work of getting up the pres
ent frisk, arranged the arrival of Jane
Bejewelled Brady cannot he said. Any
way, ]. b. u. eased himself into a from
row seat promptly on the stroke OF
and backstage Tom Wise cried JOY
ously, "Jim's here. so let us begin I
begin" And they were OFF!
Only One Falls Down.
From that moment until midnight IN
only Lamb that fell down on his fol
was Victor Herbert, and Mr.. Herber
recovered himself with next to instan
taneous ease. Mr.. Herbert at the frs
parting OF the curtains was discovere
as a part OF an orchestra of three piece
"A piano, Mr.. Herbert and a piano stoo
But when the composer, after introduc
ing an octet of brother composers seatc
at eight pianos about to play their ow
compositions, turned to seat himself 4
his own piano the piano stool WASH
there.
At least It wasn't whore Mr.. Herber
though. 1t was. The composer and IN
stool failed to meet up with each othe
end Mr.. Herbert sat upon the hare
hard stage emphatically. Blu to hi
aid when Mr.. Herbert fell down ad II
came his brother geniuses on the stag