The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-21
Big Junior HippodrOme ~
Movies and Vaudeville.
School Kiddies Do Their Bit for
Weeks War Fund.
II DID NOT COST A CENT
Acts, Music and Concessions
Everything Is Donated.
Excellent and Amusing Bill for
Two Big Crowds.

This is a great afternoon for the
school children of the city. Thou
sands of them, anxious to contribute
their mite to the Red Cross. swarmed
down town to the auditorium to at
tend the big hippodrome moving pic
ture and vaudeville show arranged by
the publicity committee of the Red
Cross and the Junior Red Cross today
Not one cent of the money raised
at the show will be diverted for any
purpose whatever. Every single cop
per is to go to swell the second war
fund. Actors actresses, stage hands.
motion picture operators and musi-
clans have all donated their services
and the movie theater owners have
contributed reels of pictures. 1t IL
expected that the Red Cross will benz
eft by the two performances this af-
ternoon many hundred dollars.
Ticket Sale Large.
All day Monday the teachers in the
city and parochia. schools were beset
with demands for tickets. The tickets
sold for 10 cents each, and when the
young hopefuls who will bear SO inn
portant a part in the American recon-
struction after the war presented their
dimes for the entrance cards many
was the story of privation and self de-
nial that thai lone dime represented.
/ AS far as the children are concerned
resents to them as great an expendf-
! ture as their fathers contributions of
as many dollars. Most of the children
who bought the tickets scorned the
! idea of asking father or mother for
money to give to the Red Cross even
| thru show. and earned the piece of
silver by running errands, pulling
weeds in some ones war garden or
like menial labor so repugnant to the
soul of the child.
Two shows were given at the an
ditorium this afternoon, one at
O'Clock and one at o'clock. Superin-
tendent Wilson announced that in many
schools the children were dismissed
in time for them to reach the audi
torium before the o'clock curtain.
Boy Scouts at Doors.
detail of boy scouts in full uni
form was in charge of all the exits
and entrances at the auditorium this
efternoon. A corps of high school
girls dressed in white and wearing the
read dress OF the American Red Cross
with the blue veil acted as ushers.
The names of the girls who had al
ready consented to act as ushers this
r1ornins are: Misses Marian BarteTl.
Marguerite Macdonald, Eva Kitterinw
Henna Rosenthal. Merriam Van Horn.
Helen Claypool, Florence McCord.
Gladys Norton. Gladys Holl, Hazel
Glenn and Norma Meade There will
be about fifteen other high school
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could not be learned this morning
During the performance this after
noon bling Bang BilP' Biby. promi.
nent war speaker of Topeka, and
staunch friend of all the little folk.
delivered a four-minute talk on the
influence of the children in the war.
the work they do and the example
they can and do set their parents and
mature friends. Miss Mildred Hazel
rigg played a number of selections
\ ~, he hirv Mi Nvy IxzF
Afternoon Program.
| The complete program for the two
shows this afternoon is:
Novelty Performers ~
Walters and Hastings. piano ana
singing.
Vera Sabina and Company. dancing.
Howe and Barlow. gymnastics.
| Francis Pierlot. songs.
Silber and North. foolishness.
Majestic.
The Jass Trio. z,
Miss Galloway and Chorus -
, Orpheum. q,
Comedy rec, Iris.
Cory and Gem.
Comedy pictures
Miss Adele Foster. of Omaha, h
= aesthetic dancing.
, Credit Due Business Men.
! Great credit is due busy Topekanp
. for the time and energy they have
: placed in this enterprise in their ef-
: forts to make II a success The matter
$ was placed originally in the hands Of
a Roy Crawford of the publicity com.
4 mittee OF the Red Cross. Mr. Craw.
ford jumped into the task with both
Y feet. He assembled actors, moving
: pictures, musicians. thru the kindneG1
: Of the theaters all over the city, In
4 cluding his own, and then made the
e arrangements for the hundred and one
y details that always pop up at the most
untimely moments.
From the w. F. Roehr music houso
o was contributed the plano. The Jsn-
: kins store and the Royal bakery con-
: tributed fans for the children. That
' dies the Mutual Ice company donated
4 ice and the Dibble and Exchanxe
: groceries and the Kresge 5. 10 and 2e.
4 cent store gave the cups and jars f0s
" the water.
The ice cream was offered most en-
r Enthusiastically by the Topeka Pure Min
i. company and the Beatrice Crcamew
q Then II was necessary to get the coneo
Despite heavy orders for this commod.
:. ity, the Poehler Mercantile coml any
- thru Manager Cutler sent 1000 conea
), to the auditorium. But 1000 mcrs
d cones were needed. 1t didn't take LONG
n for Manager Kist1er of the McCord-
T. Kistler Mercantile company to corn.
= plete the number +.
= The children were well taken cnsl
Il the boy scouts and the girls from ~
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