The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-17
STARS At THE HIP
JOIN NEW ONES IN FETE
Celebration Marks Eleventh Anniversary of Big Play
house-Famous Composers Revive Their Favorite
Numbers While Great Audience Cheers.

Marcus AnlonIus Luescher. who In
paid q more or loss incredible salary by
Charley Dillingham; for thinking up
bright thoughts whenever Charley wants
to get q little useful publicity Tor the
Hip Hip Hooraysdrome at sixth avenue
and Forty.third street. right across the
road from Jacks, never had a brighter
Idea than the n he materlalized last
night when no had MIR. Dillingham; call
together all OF the old home folks Of the
Hip and walk 'em across the stage In one
big, glitterins crowd.
Technically tho excuse for last nights
celebration AT the Nippodron,e was the
fact that Americas most famous play
our was exactly eleven years old.
Naturally Mr. Dillingham; and Director
X. II. Burnside anu House Manager J.
W. Mathews and Marcus Antonius all
felt so elated over the extraordinary
prosperity Of the Hip under the Dilling-
ham management mat they Just had to
do something to IL. on And 70
they summoned almost every one who
has had anything TO do in the last eleven
years in making the house of great
spectacles an well known ~ the Statue
OF Liberty. Pixies Peak or Diamond Jim
Brady n told them to 60 as far as they
liked.
ThsAps0n Helps Celebrate.
In all OF the big crowd that filled the
Hippodrome's $500 seats and overlooked
onto the mammoth stage. perhaps the
least conspicuous person was a slim. boy
ish faced mar who wore a felt hat. nat
as a pancake. n "A smile which was at
>rAs AeAA. .st.sf H. s..aa eAA eNnn
who had the big idea. rather more than
eleven years ago--the notion that the
thing the people Of New York and the
whole country wanted most In an amuse-
ment way was a circus and spectacle
theatre Us big as could be operated by
any set OF men. He had already put
Coney Island on the map and his head
vas buzsinR with ambitious notions, His
name Ia Frederic Thompson.
The Hippodrome has passed from his
10 other management. but no one-not
even Mr.. Dillingham-received more rom
CALCULATIONS han Fred Thompson last
night. Time has proved how shrewdly
he planned In the old days when with
the late Elmer (Skip) Dundy he hustled
for the millions that made the Hippo
drome possible.
II was a friendly audience which APP
plauded the first part Of the programme
last night which cheered Marceline when
that celebrated clown made his reappear-
ance in a kit with his successor. Toto.
and went through all OF his foolish
stunts. which applauded Composer Ray
mond Hubbell and Tenor Orville Harold
and Belle storey and Arthur Aldr'dge
and the other members Of the regular
Hippodrome company n which fairly
got up and hollered when former stars
! appeared on the stage. 1t was "A real
! holiday occasion, with far more OF the
holiday spirit than one is apt TO md In
such celebrations.
The best fun came after the intermis-
sion. when John Philip Sousa. the inter
nationally famous trap shooter and a
thor. III leads his band at the Hippo
| drome when he isn't winning cups al
| Monte Carlo and writing best sellers,
took his place on the orchestra directors
dais to guide his bandsters into the first
strains Of THE Bride Elect" He felt
n slight touch on the shoulder. turned In
surprise and saw Composer Ray Hubbe'l
waving him away. and when he retreated
In real or feiened establishment Mr.. Hub
bell lifted the baton and lifted the Sousa