The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
A. JOLSON BOSS OF
SMOKE FUND SHOW
ral Tabarin to Open Extra
Floor for Benefit Party
Tomorrow Night.
OTHER CAFES WILL HELP
Entertainers From Popular
Cabarets to Take Part
in Festivities.

TIE Bal Tabarin party for the benent
81, smokes for the American soldiers who
iii remain abroad until everything IL
,,esred up by the commissioners at the
vorsailles peace table comes on to-mor-
,or night. It is expected that this party
r,ll rank high among the several bene-
e,s held in the last year for this cause
vhlch are still talked of on Broadway
because OF their gayety and the big
money they turned over to the smoke
fund
,redicts tho party will turn out may be
,asen the fact that he is urging lie
Jscorators, Winter G. Rue, to get sec
md floor dolled up ready to be opened
,o.norrow night. This Is to make the
,owd comfortable and happy with
,lentv OF room for supper tables and
a,-ger floor space The floor over the
Winter Garden that has served so FAR
to- the patrons of the Bal Tabarin Will
not, the manager thinks, serve for The
SrS fund crowd, Judging from the reser-
yations already made.
Al Jolson is coming up stairs without
ven waiting to take off the grease paint
r., the Winter Garden show and will as
,lnlr directorial charge OF the Bal
-abarln programme. Besides the stand
Mabel Jones. Marty Calhane and others,
~eruits from the shows of the cafe de
Paris. Moulin Rouge and ChTchill =
will appear. They are to arrive md do
their bit " singing, dancing, &c. as soon
as they can be spared, and they will be
ttted in TO push along the fast and
furious fun. The show proper at the
Bal Tabarin will start at $50. Ted
Lewis. the Jazz king. is to give the open
he signal Tomorrow night. Bal
Taharin All for soldiers smokes
Soldiers Are Gratihed.
The eoldiers will be the first to APP
baud the continuance of these efforts TO
augment the fund that supplies the to-
hac,o they want. At the signing of the
amis,ice and before anything definite
was known about the numbers to be kept
abroad the fighting men suddenly trans
formed into regiments Of military police
could not help wondering II people would
continue the good work of sending them
tobacco, or desst
Quite a number OF them have said /!
their returned cards that while the!
wouldn't have been surprised to learr
hat the tobacco supply from the Su>
donors was cut off now that the drama
was out of the war, they were delighted
mat their fears apparently were ground
ess
Sergeant J. r. Reid. Headquarters De
tachment 55th Infantry wrote to TIL
SrN Tobacco Fund in December. To-da,
letter came from his mother Mrs. II. NJ
Reid, Philadelphia. who has heard from
her two boys the Sergeant and Capt
H. NJ Reid, Company A, 10th Regula
Infantry. telling her OF the joy the Str
totacco brought to them. The mothe
I thanks
The boys over there at the front hav'
lad little tobacco and value the fund.-
gifts highly. and of course they ar
aappy TO think that people remember
then These Pennsylvania soldiers were
s'u,g tn front for almost six months
and for only ten or twelve days Resin.
IN air .ha; time Thanks from Penn
ty'vauja mother"
From L. l.. We!ter. Company f. l10tl
Engineers, comes this note mailed 4
L,rouy.Ue. France: AT our noon mea
today each Of us received several pack
ages # cigarettes from THE SuN To
basco Fund. Il cheered us up consider
ably and We will march further Eas
with the hope that the Sun is going |
aeep on thinking OF US"
Best Thing since Armistice.
Ne Sergeant james e. Whaley, o
'gr same company sends back car
le>criptivc ~ tho pleasure of the me
Hcr his distribution, and from other
% tn, company who have been over !
france 10Y the last eight months com
ports that nothing which has happene
.'Hcr the ar!nistce caused so much pleas
| 81. excitement.
| / was wounded In October on IN
Nerdun front" writes Private John 4
Mcbride. Company ", Thirtieth lnfal
-. and adds that he has been in
oSpl,al ever since, but he is we
rough now to appreciate thoroughly III
noke funds gift OF cigarettes. II
one he mentions. is at Rochester.
| sergeant ]. c. Davis of Company
'io,h Infantry, sends the following az
.a5wledgment TO the Pekinese Clu
when held its show last year for III
| osuoit OF the smoke fund: II hereby az
k1owledge receipt OF twelve cartons {
Canels to-day with one OF your cards
"a carton. and to each man issued n
snare. ! assure you the smokes wei
'njoyed by all of us. Thank you al
- On. 1t is good work and a nece
say work.
Deceived the cigarettes and the
vera great. VIII you kindly send us
a,p now to take us homer" Priva
homas NJ. Kenney Of Battery f. 310l
Tod Artillery, makes this plainti'
pea
Tho Flatbush Boys Club. 1928 Snyd'
avenue, Brooklyn, appears in the list I
'o-day's new contributors. l.. NJ. Bocl
over superintendent of the club. sci
MS ,otter with the donation: I'VE, Il
F|a'hush Boys Club, held "A dance r
Gently, the proceeds from which wei
| 20 70 THE Sun Tobacco Fund. tn
mo has more than 800 members
On" army and it is thankful to say thi
= eighteen were lost-thankful. thi
that the loss was not greater. "
ant 70 DO our part TO mako the bo!
'.. over there comfortable and happ
' arc sending what We made to Tt
SO Tobacco Fund.-
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Cor
j'7r Round Table sends In its Januai
inscription to the smoke fund amour
z 70 $50, through its secretary, Jam
Eo3erts
Tomorrow, January s, THE SUN T
.a'co Fund discontinues its arrang
Wer'S with the Schultz and the Unit
gar stores. The aid the fund has r
''''d from these quarters is well know
' Al. Who have scanned the table
united daily. These are tho last hour
therefore,, for supporters to help In III
49, These friends need not think tn
'"E can do nothing more. however.
"'h.e'Orjh they may continue the
"n'r5utons 10 the fund in cash.
How the Fund stands To-day.
I'VE - and THE EVENING SUN 5000
United lIEaT stores boxes including
,'"'' o. 20 of gross sales day ..,.... I0,i73
SLrr"i~ acknowledged MINIMUM. 0ss62