The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-07-23
SMOKE BENEFIT
THE BEST SHOW
SEEN In YEARS
Every Seat in the Winter
Garden Filled and Many
Others Stand.
LARGE SUM REALIZED
Noted Actors and Actresses
Give Up Their One Free
Night in Week.
HIGHEST TRIBUTES PAID
Stage Folk So Interested They
Remain to Watch After
Finishing Parts.
LARGE SUM REALIZED
HIGHEST TRIBUTES PAID

Raymond Hitchcock might have re-
mained quietly at home last night, home
being Great Neck, and cooled or by
watching for German submarines from
the deck OF his fifty foot motor boat,
the Floating Kidney; and Miss Irene
Franklin as easily as not could have
sat around In something loose all eve
ming while watching Friend Husband
Burton Green putting little Margaret,
aged 3, and Elizabeth, aged 3, to bed.
Furthermore, Miss Elsie Janis might
have lolled all evening through on the
artificial Ice OF her private summer and
winter skating rink on the Janis estate
at Tarrytown and Clifton Crawford, II
he wanted to be mean, could have put
In last evening sauntering down 20 the
Larchmont station from his home IN
Circle avenue, Larchmont, and watching
the New Haven trains coming In and
going out and Miss Frances White and
william Rock, who hadn't done a thing
since Saturday morning except play all
afternoon at the "Hitchy-Koo' matinee
and all the after dinner hours in the
same show and then dance and sing
from midnight on at the ziegfeld Mid
night Frolic," might have
nut Lhey Dhumus
But without going further the fact re-
mains that Raymond and Irene and
Burt and Cliff and Elsie and Frances
and Billie and crate after crate Of other
stars all gave up the one night In the
week they have to themselves and
motored toward the Winter Garden to
give the dodgastedest. goiderndest. dog
gonediy most uproarious benefit per-
formance for The SUN and The EVENING
SUN Smokes for Soldiers Fund that
Broadway ever saw.
De Wolf Hopper not only brought his
Eel Captain" Of glorious memory up to
date BY making 1t plea for tobacco,
but he added a speech which IL II came
along from touring political cam
paigner would naturelly be described as
whirlwlnd oration. The gist of It was
that soldiers need smokes as much as or
more than the rest Of us, and then Mr..
Hopper started the irresistible femininity.
all drawn up and ready to dash In, hat
in hand, along the aisles.
Bills piled toward the beauteous collec-
toresses' 'outstretched hands as they passed
up and down the aisles, coins were piled
on top Of the bills and more bills COW
cred the coins. What 1t all came TO is
another matter Of exact figures which
cannot be given now. but will be listed
L.
Master OF Ceremonies Raymond Hitch
cock called them all or In turn and
they came forth before a delighted au-
dience that filed every orchestra, box
and balcony seat in the Winter Garden
and flowed over into rows OF standees
that paved the wide foyer from the last
row Of seats to the back wall.
Steadily they flashed forth--De Wolf
Hopper. Miss Franklin and Friend Hus-
band Green, William Rock and Miss
Frances White Cor Miss White and
Billie Rock. for Miss White had all the
work wished on her by Billie, on the
principle that it's always the woman
who pays, who pays, who pays! and
Leon Enrol OF "Hltchy -Koo." Hal Forde
o. "Oh. Boy" Miss Janis, who figured
on having just time to motor back to
that Janis estate at Tarrytown, get q
clean pocket handkerchief, kiss her
mother fond goodby and motor straight
back to Broadway In the gathering dawn
In order to be able to open splendifer-
ously in a brand new act at the Palace
This afternoon.
Many NOtables on Bill.
Also there were-wait for the finish,
the list is only getting under way-there
were Gus Edwards and Gus's GeorgIe
and Cuddles and Little Vincent and all
OF Gus's rah-rah-rah little songsters I;
and Jim Morton and Maud Rockwell,
and the peaches and creamy Miss Ann
remington. she of the dimpled knees !;
and the uproarious Miss Fannie Brice
OF the Ziegfeld "Follies," and Miss
Grace La Rue OF "Hitchy-Koo," and
sophie Braslau of the Metropolitan
opera Company, and VIII Rogers OF
rogers County, Oklahoma, and Long
Beach, L. l.
Aso-wait-wait-wait Clifton Craw-
FORD again in his Movie" song. which
oscar and his orchestra remembered
Without rehearsal-just dashed 1t of
IKE THAT, and Miss Ruth McTam-
many who made her first appearance
N America, according TO Announcer
raymond Hitchcock. who is a man of
probity, and Anthony Euwer and Olga
COOK who is one of the Gus Edwards
prima donnas, and Willie Weston and
FeLlx Adler and both those Dolly girls
one was named Roszika and the other
iahsci, nevertheless Master Of Cere-
monies Hitchcock, Just to show what n
wiling worker he was. pronounced both
mer hFst names, when he could have
Iut cold after saying merely, THE
po'y Sisters" II Hitchy had wanted to
Ne Stacker
Not One scowI.
=, FOLKS who had hornswoggied stars OF
Me hrst magnitude such as. say. Bill De
"on Hopper into coming all the way up
rom Great Neck on hot night in order
caVort about the Winter Garden stage
our sammies in France might have
nsT men sinokes-these folks who had got
nh and the others there couldn't help
mlhking how Bill would have preferred,
pss,haps, 10 be back at Great Neck re-
,.nhs ulinertisn stun 10 the baby be-
Seeh sips Of his ciaret lemonade. And
mos Mose who had asked the player folk to
sNe up their one free night tried to hide
enHld Winter Garden scenery as star
alter star came through the stage door
snd started in in businessllke fashion to
MAKE up for the big show
nut IN a moment II became evident
Continued on sirth PaOs.