The sun., 1919-04-30
MARIE DRESSLER
BANQUET HEROINE
Her War Work ExtOlled at
Feast Given by Canadian
- Club.
SHE RAISED S5O,OOO,OOO
Hotel CommOdore's Ballroom
Shored Up to Hold Big
:. Bill Edwards.

The absolutely absurd idea ESQ it was
learned last night of trying to get Miss
Marie Dressler Big Bill Edwards and
]. Shrewsbury Cobb into the Same din
ner at the same time was put up to John
NICE. Bowman the other day by the
Canadian Club of New York.
I'm try anything once" said Mr.. Bow
man. Out"
But nothing" interrupted Tommy
Neelands, president OF the club. you
gotta get 'em In. Mamie has done 30
much for
'Mamie'?'
Yes, Mamie Dressler. The little
NoIuan.s Mamie DRESSER, has done SO
much for our loans in Canada and so
much more for your Liberty loans that
we OF the Canadian Club OF your city
wantta give the dame a dinner. And
were gonna have Big Bill and Irwin
Cobb for speakers. Also ex-President
Taft has intlmated that"
Doubt About Foun do lions.
Boy. my boy. my boy!" broke in
young Mr.. Bowman. I'VE have concrete
foundations under our Hotel Commodore
that run into solid rock 100 feet below
Pershins Square. We are steel con-
structed. We-well, we arc solidly built
but you are going too far. Have a
hearth"
AS was saying when interrupted -
Mr.. Neelands went on, Miss Dressier,
Big Bill Edwards. Irwin Cobb. Tom Wise,
George Plume, William Howard Taft,
Mayor Hylan and Butterball McCooey
are to be seated at the speakers table
and we also want room for about 1000
men. women and children of the CRATE
ful Canadian socie-"
Young Mr.. Bowman had an idea He
took down a telephone receiver and
called up Murray Hill sss. Constructor
Ralph Crow. head of the Crow Construc-
ton Company-who not only built the
Hotel Vanderbilt and things like that
but also was Princeton classmate of
Big Bill-personally answered the tele-
phone. Ralph Crow sent a squad of
workmen to the Commodore to shore up
the ballroom.
Wherefore Just after Mr.. Crows as
sistant had reinforced the Commodore
yesterday the first of the thousands who
wanted to hooray for Miss Dressler and
the Canadian Club began to arrive. Mr..
Taft couldn't come, and Mr. Bowman
sighed with relief. Then along came a
prepaid telegram from the venerable Mr..
Cobb. In which the celebrated Kaintuck
humorist said he was suffering from a
carbuncle on or near the brain and
acre estate a mile from Ossinng. Mr..
Bowman laughed happily.
Thin Folks Also There.
But Marie Dressler came to the Ca
madam Clubs party. So did Big Bill Ed
wards And after Marie and Bill had
been seated along came not 1000 but
LOO ladies and gentlemen OF Manhat-
tan tvia Canada) and lot of thin folks,
such Daniel Frohman, Miss Elisabeth
Marbury. the cherubic Joseph Tumulty,
Miss Mabel Beardsley and Gen. A. C.
CrHchley.sG. NJ. G., n. s. O.. who being
al of 20 years old. is the Youngest Cen
eral officer in any army in the world.
And all these were seated in a cluster
around Miss Dressler at the guest"
table.
Why they all were there. was ex-
planned early by Toastmaster Neelands,
Collector the Honorable William H. Big
Bill Edwards. Gen. Critchloy, Miss Mar
bury, Joe Tumulty and all the rest of
the speakers
It seems that Miss DRESSER did not a
thing during the great war but tour
Canada and the United States and, as
Toastmaster Neelands said it to deafen-
ing applause, personally raised between
S45,000.0o0 and $4,000. 900.
She made during one period I have
in mind 10S speeches in twenty-nine
days. She paid all her own expenses
including her car fare. Again. almost
in r day Miss Dressler ra!sed-by sheer
ragnetism-s7,00 800 for ambulances be.
cause some one told her the ambulances
were needed tCheers.1 Miss Drassler
Tmore cheersl is Imost cheersj the
female Paul Revere" tRuction that
caused the Commodore to settle almost
one foot despite Ralp Crows snoring.
And then Big Bill stood up on his hind
legs and added words which caused Miss
Dressler 10 blush a deeper crimson. Az
ter a lot'of folks had talked Miss Dress
Ter was compelled to stand up on her
h!nd-Afiss Dressler arose and modestly
expressed her thanks She said she
hadn't done a darn thing to help the war
except TO do what little she could. And
then the orchestra began to toot and