The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-15
Amazing Amateurs Take Part
i'm Benefit for LenOX Hill
Settlement.
PEANUT PEDLERS PLEASE

Those who happened in at Sherrys
yesterday afternoon or last evening prob
ably--well, they couldn't very well help
l,-saw number of young women who
didn't need the red circus sashes and other
sawdust ring costume trimmings to en-
tee second look And having looked
the lockers were lost. For the red sashes
at the ticket booth gave memory a gentle
jostle which became real primitive
urge" when the ear caught the music Of
side shows, peanuts and red lemonade,
lemonade as vivid in hue and nearly as
satisfying to the eye as those sashes.
And when, caught by the lure that
knows neither class nor age, the visitors
went up To the ballroom they found await
ing them there all that small boys
recollectlons had promised. II was
real circus. To be sure, some or the
best of the performers will never he seen
again in such death defying feats-unless
the Lenox Hin Settlement fund needs
their services---but that made II all the
more worth while since there were thrills
that will be repeated only ION request
Lest II be overlooked in the account or
the wonders, IL must be said that the
Lenox lin Settlement of I46 East Sew
enty-second street has record OF turn
ing near gangsters into good citizens
and of making life cleaner and better Tor
2 hundreds OF girls ana Dogs lot "Hplii ~
Is the only bright spot in "A dreary exist
/ ence And any one who didn't get a
chance to help along the work yester-
day, and get more than they gave he
sides by being in the audience al the cir
Gus, has stu the opportunity to do some
thing for the settlement to-day and to-
morrow and the other morrows as wei
II was estimated last night that more
than $4,000 had been raised by means
of the circus.
! However, 1t was easy for the visitor
to forget yesterday that going to cir
Gus may be a philanthropy as well as
a great pleasure, especially when he
! emerged from the elevator to hear Bert
Cole OF the Hagenbeck- Wallace show an
nouncing:
From stage to stage and from cage
to cage the most wonderful collection
| OF freaks and wonders ever brought to-
| gether under one roof
Right behind him was Bill Thompson,
| late and next spring OF the Greatest SHOW
| on Earth, impresario of the freaks, but
so nterested-profession and as n
plain citizen-n the work OF the amateur
headllners that he deserted his post Tor
a peep under the big top.
II was a really. truly big top. The
| canvas stretched below the ballroom cell
ing seemed to tower as majestically as
did the tent OF memory In sam jackson
lot, and the children who crowded the
I tiers OF seats ABOUT lllt IlHb III NHt "it'i
noon were no more genuine and generous
in their applause than the audience OF
their elders who saw the two evening
performances, and danced between and
after.
There was Marvellous Maude, Mad
Man Eating Mule" Maude is no amateur
although her heels fly out with the gay
abandon OF one who gets JOY out OF her
work. and no one was able to qualify
for the Carnegie medal which the pro-
gramme said would be awarded to any
lady or gentleman mastering the mule.
Naude conceived a dislike for the Sherry
elevator service and so lost the honor
of appearing next to the top Of the pro-
gramme.
But she was hardly missed from hei
, place since Reginald Rives, as mos
lovely blonde" and aided by Anderson
Dana as the mere man whe always ac
companies beautiful circus ladies In dash
ing daring, death defying bareback acts
circled the ring on the most beautiful
: fat backed white horse that ever kicked