The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11
GIRL CLOWNS GET
APPLAUSE OF 5000
Vacation Fund Circus Rightly
Press-agented by Miss
Morgan and Others.
FAR BEYOND THE BILLING

More than 8 900 persons went to the
ssventy-hrst Regiment Armory last
night to see the Vacation Fund Circus.
0arnum 4 Bailey never saw any little
tent peckers to vie with the small boys
who climbed up the grim iron bare
outside Of the windows In an effort to
learn what them clowns was dom"
The climax came when some women
friends OF Miss Anne Morgan and Miss
Robinson Smith. evening gowned. swept
20 the door in an automobile and were
obliged to give up In despair and forego
the privilege OF seeing the "seething
eide shows and the Great White Way
in a nuthell.' which the programme adj
vertised.
Inside the srmory was crowded to the
very roof, which was decked in f'owery
festoons of many colors. The first event
was the grand march Of all the per-
formers. Fully 1 1000 people in all pa
rsded around the arena to the
music OF the Seventy-frst Regiment
hand before they settled down to the
lighter business Of the evening.
Some very real animals. furry black
bears and a baby bear which climbed TO
the top OF the trapezes and then shed
tears because he couldn't get down.
started. things going. A score ~ more
Of Vacation Fund girl clowns kept the
audience laughing all through the eve
ming. chorus of BLACK nammies
stretching from end to end OF the ar
u,ory sang syncopated songs cowboys
and Indians bore down upon the specta-
tors al intervals and up and down the
aisles wandered girls with peanuts and
popcorn and candy and pink lemonade
The performance was saved from be-
Ing a purely amateur one by the appear
ance of magnificent span of white
horses, two white ladies. white man
and silky white dog. They dashed
around and around the ring doing bare
back stunts. This troupe. known as the
buttons. the performing bears and
Nervo. who. as Miss Morgan put it. was
willing to die for nothing, lent a bona
fde sawdust touch to the whole affair.
When all was ended. the animals gone
home, and the performers had changed
into real clothes. the fisor was cleared
and CIRCUS goers showed their apprecia-
ton At a real ball.
Not ,the least OF the attractions were
the side shows. which encircled the en-
tire building. and below which young
men as official ''barkers' advertised the
list of wonders.
Among the boxholders were Mr.. and
Mrs Lawrence Greer. Mrs James
Speyer. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Irvine,
Mr. and Mrs Edward McVickar. August
Belmont. Mrs. Charles r. Alexander,
Mrs Francis Mcneil Bacon and Miss
Ma,fde Wetmore.
The members Of the Vacation Fund
committee are Miss Robinson Smith
chairman: Mrs. August Belmont. vice.
chairman Miss Maud r. Borland. Sec
rotary: Miss Anne Morgan. treasurer
Mrs. Rogers Bacon, Miss Beardsley
Miss Ella Borland. Mrs. Edward Bret
tuns. Mrs. Alfred Cook. Miss Rache
Crothers. Mrs. Martin Egan. Mrs. Mon
tague F1agg. Mrs Euls Garrison, Mrs
Montgomery Hare. Mrs George G. Hol
lister. Miss Ruth Shaw-Kennedy, Mis-,
Katherine Mccain. Mrs. Ponsonby Ogle
Miss Caroline Shipper. Mrs. Joel r
epingarn. Mrs. Andrew v. Stout. Mis-.
Maude Wetmore and Mrs. Charles :
whitman.
Advisory committee-Henry W. TAT,
chairman George Barr Baker. John p
Crimmins. Mgr. Lavelle. Arthur viii
Jams. Ralph Pulitzer and Louis Stewart
Ball Committtee-Miss Katherine v
Bairnes. chairman Miss Jane Bate. sec
rotary. Miss May Crockett. Chairman
ticket committee Misc Miriam X Oliver
chairman programme Committee; Mis-
N. Tate. chairman entertainment com
nittee; Miss Miriam Rollins. Miss Ma
Dorney. Miss Rachel Crothers, Mis-
Ella Borland. Mrs. Rogers Bacon.
Chairmen of the Arena-Animals
Miss VI. Rollins; chariot race, Miss Muir
ply; cowboys, Miss VI. Gumpto: In
dams. Miss VI. Wessmsn; clowns. Mis
Sherry; band. Miss Rogers: dancer.
Miss HALEY; mammies. Mrs. Mccarthy
Miss Miriam *. oliver was the ex
ecutive secretary and Miss Perley
Davis the collecting secretary.