The sun., 1919-06-09
EQUITYACTORS WIN
AT LAMBS GAMBOL
Cohan and Collier Agree as
Managers on Their De-
mands as Players.
OTHER STARS ALSO SHINE
Who's Who of the Stage All
Present Before or Behind
the Footlights.

The Producing Managers Protective
Association and the Actors Equity As
ISOLATION needn't bother about arbitrat-
ing now, unless they want TO do IL
simply for exercise. George Conan.
that famous actor who Is also a manaser
Rnd Willie Collier, that celebrated man
ager who is occasionally an actor. set
tied the matter last night to the salts
1action-in fact. the thunderous an
plause-of superabundant audience
mat ciuttered up the Manhattan Opera
Rouse at the annual public gambol OF
the Lambs. W
Willie and Georgia made everything
ciear during their joint performance
about the middle of the bill. when the
next act was being soldered together he
mind their drop curtain. That curtain
oepicted two attractive looking wooden
lenements, the door of one, from which
Collier entered, being labelled ACTORS
Equity Association" and the portal of
the other, which gave Conan to the
world. marked Managers Producing
Association
Immediately they burst into song de-
scrlDing the state of armed neutrality
at present maintained between the two
main branches of the theatrical sys-
tenn. Collier, being asked by Conan
what the actors really did want, behind
all their talk of working on HOLIDAYS
and sundays, replied with Napoleonic
brevity: More money"
Always More Money.
but, George" Collier continued
stepping hard on the pathos pedal. 81
know you, and 1 know that deep down
in your heart, even If you do belong TO
the managers club, you're really with
the actors And to prove IT, he dug
George in his left hand cigar pocket. or
course. that drew a round Of sympathetic
applause from the actors, who overlaid
inc huge auditorium. and Conan
bowed his head diff1dently. Thereupon
WINE asked him: Now. what are you
thinking Off"
More money" said George simply.
They wound up their little skit with
a couple OF their old time favorites in
the way OF song and dance numbers,
turning their appearance into the hit of
the evening, not only because of their
performance-for which no one would
begrudge them an extra nights pay-but
also because they showed exactly where
each side stood and how far each was
likely to get Which made the evening
historic
Messrs. Conan and Collier indeed
were all over the bill. not only In person
but in two of the sketches which came
from their talented typewriters Collier
was represented by a sketch called
Nothing But Cuts" supposed to be a
rehearsal of a highbrow play plotted
by Edwin Milton Royle on which Collier
was called to perform an ante-mortem
after the first night by injecting a little
Jazz He put snap into it by cutting out
almost everything. to the great hilarity
OF the spectators. and reduced the sup
posed author of the intensely serious
triangle drama almost to the level OF a
straitjacket by inserting two songs, rem
dered by Sam Hardy and a chorus One
song, jazz for Cinderella" by Kenneth
and Roy Webb, was sung into faver by
the Lambs clean shaved peroxide
chorus. 1t was Ibsen a la Arthur Ham
merstein.
Dreams OF Old Days.
Cohan had his go at the audience
with The Farrell Case" an amusing
burlesque of one of those court trials
which have such long runs on Broadway,
which was wound up by the slaughter OF
the whole cast Other acts calling for
dazzling costumes, elaborate settings and
hearty applause were East Is West a
la fox trot, with lyrics by Hassard Short
and music by Silvio Helm, and "Daly
Dreams" by Hassard Short, one of the
unique numbers of the evening. in which
Irving Fisher, sitting at a piano. evoked
out of the interior of the instrument the
Greek Slave" the Artists Model" the
Country Girl" San Toy" the "Geisha"
and all the types OF femininity that had
ever winked across the footights at
Days Theatre.
Most of the Lambs Club crowded into
The Party of the First Part" by George
V, hobart. which had its setting in their
own grill room and in which distin-
guished stars like Frank Bacon were
given one line apiece to speak. like
chorus girls. Incidental bits were given
by Ed Wynn, with his customary as
sortment of chuckles and his black Tag
containing the 5000 jokes he had col
lected during his stage career by John
Philip Sousa. who conducted the orches-
ira in two new compositions. THE
Golden Star" memorial march. writ
ten in memory of the fallen brave, and
Bullets and Bayonets." and by Angus
tus Thomas in presenting a wreath OF
roses to Elsie Janis for her work over
seas-which caused Miss Janis. on be-
ing dragged upon the stage to receive it,
10 blush all over her smiles
To list all the actors who participated
in this gambol. over which Shepherd r.
II Burnside presided. would be impos-
sible. for working majority of the
Lambs seemed present on the stage.
It's enough to say that Walter Cat
lett. Hansford Wilson, Herbert Corthell.