The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-14
CLUBWOMEN MERRY
$ IN FORUM FOLLIES
pispOrt Gil the Stage Of the
Rivoli as Shakespeare's
HerOines.
A FEW HUSBANDS THERE
Marcus Marks Learns q Few
Things Watching Mrs. Marks
Behind FO0tlights.

The women's Forum--tnat sounds very
- wise,
But there steep'd in folly. right up to
50 their eyes.
The president says, "oh. pray do
- stunt"
t,rhey never reply. st won't. no. won't"
But ~ she just waves her fat little hand
esTis ringmasters whip. they're hers to
They instantly rise to the size of their
eel feet
ITO do something risque, becoming or neat.
And when they begin to do silly things
pToud think they were born with grasshop-
srhey hirt and they skip. they stand on
their toes,
t,Tis a wonder that one doesn't fall on her
Perhaps you are started to see the gray
oPhiianthropy's cause can cloak many sins,
eAnd on Forum Follisss day the nonsense
begins.
es Miss Helen varick Boswell. in whom
the vaudeville stage lost a headliner
when she decided to go into politics and
be ringmaster to the G. o. p. elephant
for a steady job. and only dip into vaude-
VILE occasionally for the benefit OF the
! patriotic and philanthropic fund of the
woman's Forum, of which she Is
founder and president-N1ss Boswell
out-Helened Helen when she prepared
the programme for yesterdays annual
Forum Follies, given in the Rivoli The
ntre. Departing, for the main feature
OF the morning, from her usual line,
which is child parts in pantalettes, she
brought together all of Shakespeare's
LADY Friends in an all-hen or play
swithout-a-hero masterpiece, which even
the Bard of Avon must have admitted
was far more modern and up to date
than anything he could have produced
1t was the clubwomen's day. Club
women shone on the stage as Portio,
= lady Macbeth, Rosdlind, Juliet, &C.
with a difference), and clubwomen
snlled the body of the house and roared
and Uttered at the quips and quirks OF
their talented friends.
There were a few husbands there also.
Marcus NJ Marks SAT IN the front row
and led the applause for his wife in the
role and doublets of Rosdlind, and was
heard to remark that he never realized
how good looking Mrs. Marks was till
he saw her in that costume.
SC Mrs. Marks had prominent speak
ing part, and everybody in the house
laughed with the exception of Mrs.
flames Griswold Wentz when she talked
about the clubwoman who is going to
reform New York womens Dress but
said it had nothing to do with her be-
cause the reform wasn't starting at legs,
but at the other end. AS everybody
knows. Mrs. Wentz, who is organizing
10 purify the sartorial morale of every
body's dress in New York, including the
wax models in the windows, finds enough
10 occupy her in backs and necks.
70 Mrs. Anna LaZear Allan WAS Portid
In a cap and gown of such bright red
cloth that a sailor who looked in started
Ito round up bunch of gobs to raid the
TO- toll inn nd nnl
Miss Cherrie Clarke, floor director ten
minutes to convince him what patriotic
ladies the Forum Follies were.
To Portid came all OF Shakespeare
Lady Friends who had grievance
and anybody who knows his plays knows
,that they had plenty. OpheEa MRS
William Valentine Goldie) recited in
'nnusical verse how she tried to drown
herself because Hamlet Tilted her. and
she got all wet and then Hamlets folks
what were left of them, sent her to Mat
t9eawan, where the food was awful IT,
fdnid (Mrs. Arthur Judson Hanford) did
dance, and then told Porto that the
managers were simply exploiting her
talent. and that what with the high cos,
of living and SO on. she was getting
thin as a rail.
Mattresses Ford and Page miss Min
THE l. Wilson and Mrs. William Albert
Judson Hanford) came to beg the law.
-6ere tie to get their husbands out of Jai
where Fdlstd6 had put them for max
ing a row when they saw him kissing
their wives.
an Mrs. Stanley Lyman Otis was Lad,
,Adobeth, very grand and naughty
though not forgetting that she was GU
on very large bail for being accessory
Before the fact to the murder her hus
.-banc committed. Mrs. Axel Q. Ihlsent
was Audrey, Mrs. Harry w. CorbiI
NDesdemona, and Miss Boswell made
shit with her lifelike katherine the shrew
n The curtain raiser was a brief bu
,lside splitting thing called 1.-THE Chill
,Sren's Hour--a Club Skit" Its poig
nancy may be Judged from the state
ment that Mrs. John Francis Yawger
the w. X. serious ard hefty balance o
the G. o. p, appeared in pink panta
lettes and bonnet as Little Era Jan
tPinkhdm, and danced all by herself.
There were a lot of grandmas in thi
,piece-the Old Fashioned Grandma (Mrs
Jessie Hoyt Higglns). the Up to Dat
Grandma Mrs, Frederic w. Noyes), tn
Country Grandma (Mrs. Otto Hahn
Miss Boswell as Little Helen, MR.
Walter Seaman Comfy as Little Nor,
sand Mrs. A. NJ Palmer as Herself mad
up the cast