The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-10-29
GREAT BENEFIT
YIELDS $4,000
TO SMOKE FUND
Five Thousand Throng the
Hippodrome to See Fine
Galaxy Of Stars.
HOPPER GRAND POOH BAH
E. F. Albee and A. Paul Keith
Give Their Personal Check
for $4,000 to Get In.


biggest playhouse IN the world before
the biggest audience, which paid the big
eest benent performance sum unloaded
into q box offlce. and with the biggest
voice in all De Wolf Hopper dstonatins
all over the biggest stage In existence as
he announced the slambansedest indi-
vidual gift-a check for 5000 contain
ing the signatures Of e. F. Albee and A.
Paul Keith and handed over to a door
man by Mr.. Abee with q casual word as
he entered the theatre-that was the
kind OF Sun Smoke Fund benefit show
that exploded inside and out and all
around the Hippodrome last night.
Somewhere around $4,000 was tho
measure Of the jump which THE SUN
Tobacco Fund took as . result Of last
nights efforts by the performers and d.
rectors and ticket buyers. who massed
forces to set up mark for subsequent
war benefits to shoot At. The show It
self. counting In the programme receipts.
Melted about $4,000 Of the big bankroll
gathered in for soldier smokes, with the
check for $4,000 from Mr.. Albee and Mr..
Keith raising the whole sum up to the
$4,000 urge toward the 100000 mark.
toward which the smoke fund is now
cantering steadily.
And Such . Crowd There Was.
When anybody or anything smears
, about 5000 men and women suddenly
into a short block of Sixth avenue, such
as the one the Hippodrome stretches
along from Forty-third to Forty-fourth
street. and the 5000 or SO all arrive
within few minutes either side OF the
o'clock mark and they all want to get
IN theatre - once-when such fussy
doinss as that come along there's bound
to be q clutter Of motor cars and humans
and deuce Of time generally.
! And add TO this the clink OF coins, and
| the swish OF greenbacks and the noise
\ OF Mark Lueschers new stock Of 1917
1918 model evening scenery and three
| quart hat. and the Hippodrome gir
ushers soprano selling Of programmes
and ever and always the sweet soft up.
roar OF The De Wolf Hopper voice com.
Ing and go!ng-usually coming-and
/ stage Directing Wizards Bill Stewart
and Dick Burnside and
! Well. IL these sentences are too lonS
and wide and deep and far reaching
and everything it's because Of the i'm
possibility OF coming fresh from such q
show and sticking to three word sen.
| tences OF words OF one syllable
Bill Right on the Job.
| Said party OF the first part. the said
! William De Wolf Hopper. hereinafte,
| mentioned in and on these data as Ril
| Hopper or just Bill-Bil Hopper ht
came all the way from Boston jus, I,
stretch his legs up and down the Hippo
drome stage rs Master Of Ceremonies
! General Announcer and Lord Higl
Everything Else Of the Smoke Fund
| Show.
| Just to make II more difficult and
he had acted up there nightly and
at matinees AS the bright particula,
magnet of the Winter GARDENS Pass
ing Show OF 1917" now playing Bostor
! and Hellandgone, VI. and towns lik,
that on tour. But Bill Hopper was du.
back at Great Neck yesterday to lool
over the new house he has taken dowr
there.
| And Bill might have spent las, nigh
| in Great Neck teaching the baby. Ril
De Wolf Hopper. Jr., how to pls!
rummy. and getting acquainted agar
with Miss Elda Miller, who il also III,
1 beau;eous Mrs. De Wolf Hopper. NJ
settling the war over the coffee cup.
with his other offspring. the Hon, As
, s!stant Treasurer and General Manage
OF the Branch Bank Managers OF tn,
United States Mortgage and Trust Com
pany Banks Jack ITopper-Jack is onl,
thirty years older than his baby brother
B.ll De Wolf Hopper. Jr., by tho way
But a Step and a Half Away.
II for no better reason than to ge
one sentence sawed of some place an,
a new start on another sentence. tn
t.vht la Inc hnt u /,
Hopper might have spent the evenini
| quietly by staying in Great Neck, whicl
Ia the only way an evening can he spen
In Great Neck, before putting the ca
out for the night and getting a fev
hours or minutes sleep before starting
of to Boston again.
But not Bill. He was roped, throw
and hog tied before he had got the Lon
Island Railroad cinders out OF his voic
yesterday. And then he was dragge
UP to the Algonquin. which Bill used n
houdoir 10 make UP In before saunter
ing across the street to the stage en-
trance OF the H'ppodrome, So. makeu
and all. he took a step and a half. whic
Is all Bill needs TO take to get from hi
Algonquin quarters to almost any place
and shortly after o'clock last nigh
he was set TO begin n night OF stroll
ing up and down the stage, from Forty
third to Forty-fourth street, while actin
as announcer from that time on IL
midnight,
He got yell OF welcome. did Ri
as his entire confection Of dress clothe
exploded forth. an audience that file
all the Hippodromc seats whooping e
up for tho Same old Bill
Pageantry IL UnfOlded.
And then ne announced the who,