The sun., 1918-12-16
NEW WAR PLAY HAS
PREMIERE TONIGHT
"Hooray for the Girls" Will
Be Produced on Roof Of
44th Street Theatre.
REAL GALAXY OF BEAUTY
Entertainment to BE for Bene.
fit Of Homeless of France
and Belgium.

II the male heroes Of the late un-
pleasantness fancy that they are going
to have a monopoly Of successful ANA
teur war plays they will have rude
shock this evening. The girls stood
1t pretty patiently while "Yip. Zip.
Yaphank" and "Goodby, Biz and
Good Luck Sam" nearly hypnotized
Broadway into thinking that women
aren't any more necessary on the
stage than Shakespeare's time con-
sidered them. Then the girls got busy
and tonight a galaxy Of feminine
beauty on the roof Of the Forty-fourth
Street Theatre will present "Hooray
for the Girls" in a manner designed to
throw all those all male cast things
completely in the shade.
A list of this cast looks as IL the
whole girl part OF the social register
was going to move to Broadway. The
singers and dancers and actresses arc
all young women who never did much
but arnuse themselves, but the war
| has made them think, and now they
are working hard to amuse the public
That the latter may give its money in
, aid of the homeless of France and
| Belgium. The New York committee
for devastated France is the organiya-
| ton for whose benefit the entertain
ment is given.
Authors OF the Piece.
Mrs. Lewis b. Woodruff wrote the
book of this musical comedy and re-
view" as it Is called. The Misses An
! nelu Burns and Madelyn Sheppard
wrote the lyrics and music. and Frank
Smithson Of the London /Hippodrome
is stage manager and director. And
| t anybody supposes that Mr.. Smith
SON speaks gently to those fair young
amateurs because they don't have to
work for pay he or she ought to have
! dropped into rehearsal some day last
week and listened to the director as
| with raucous speech he flayed their
we'll meant efforts.
Well. anyhow. whether it is due to
Mr.. Smithson, or the girls, or the au-
thors and composers, or to Mrs. Oren
Root and Mrs. Lewis Gouverneur Nor
! ris and the other women who are see
! ing to the details OF the affair, yester-
| days dress rehearsal indicated that
''Hooray for the Girls is going to be
we'll worth seeing for itself. not to
| mention the cause.
| The first act Is in America, the sue
ceeding ones in France, and the gay
and enga ging medley OF dances. songs,
jests and humorous situations, with
| a thread of a plot, are not uncon-
nected with the war. There are Red
| Cross girls and Motor Corps girls,
there are soldiers and sailors there are
choruses which are a regular Winter
Garden array OF beauty. and other
choruses in which their best friends
wouldn't recognize the girls in their
weird masculine makeup.
Among Girls Taking Part.
Among the girls taking part are
Miss Hope w. Williams, Miss Grace
Crossman, who does a clever toe
/ dance; Miss katherine Van Ingen,
Miss Florence NJ. Clcndenin. Miss
Beatrice l.. Byrne, Miss Dorothy l.,
Norris of Philadelphia, who does some
Of the chief dances; Miss Eva c.
Stewart, Miss Marion Carroll, Miss
Grace Bristed, Miss Evalina Gleaves,
daughter of Admiral Gleaves; Miss
Betty Jackson and Miss Vera McNair.
At first the girls didn't intend 10
have a single man in the cast, but they
| relented and allowed four-Capts. A.
L. Clark and Fairfax Bergler Of the
Aviation Corps, Capt. Hale of the Ca
madam army and James Leary
nephew of Countess Annie Leary,
whose plump physique and deep voice
are counted on TO bring several laughs
for his part OF scrubwoman who is
trying to clean up Paris after the
soldiers.
In the intermissiOns between the
acts there viii be brief speeches by
Conigshy Dawson and various we'll
known men, just to call attention to
ldhe great need of devastated France
But there will be no requests for
money and no soliciting for anything,
Captains OF ushers are to be the
Misses Adrienne NJ Isclin, Julie NJ
Lentilhon. Isabel Stillman. Geraldine
Adee, Anna r. Alexandra. Emma Pea
body and Symphorosa Bristed, and
Mrs. r. ]. McClelland, Mrs. Boughton
Cobb and Mrs. Lewis Gouverneur Nor
ris.
Miss Dorothy Norris, who does some
OF the best dances, designed many
OF the costumes. The leading lady
by the way. IS Q dark horse. Her
name is not to be known till the pro-
grammes appear Tomorrow but she Is
"a younp PHILADELPHIA woman