The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
TWO WAR MEMORIAL
BENEFITS TONIGHT
Performances at Manhattan
Opera House and Century
Theatre.
POETRY AT THE HARRIS
"Greenwich Village Follies" to
Attend Halloween Fete
at Tammany Hall.

Tonight will be the occasion for two
big benefits. both of them for the pur-
pose Of erecting memorials for soldiers
who gave up their lives performing
their benefit for the world in the war;
AT the Manhattan Opera House testi-
monial under the auspices of the Chel-
sea Memorial Association will be held
for raising funds for a monument In
the city park at Ninth avenue and
Twenty-seventh street dedicated to the
boys of the Chelsea district who are
now a name. On the promised list of
performers are Raymond Hitchcock,
EDDIE Cantor, Bert Williams, Stella
Mayhem Van and Schenck, Johnny
Dooley. Whiting and Burt. Ruth Roye,
Eddie Bowling, Sylvia Clark and Hal
Hxon.
Cantor, Williams and Van and
Schenck are announced also for the
concert to be staged at the Century
Theatre tonight under the auspices of
Col. William Hayward, Col. William
Jy Schieffelin and Lieut.. Col. Tillman,
in order to start memorial to the Of
fcers and men of the old Fifteenth In
fantry Regiment, N. G. N Y, other
wise known to the Germans as the
3t9th, U. s. A. Others on the pro-
gramme are Marilynn Miller, the Fair
banks Twins. Ann Pennington, Lester
Allen, Sophie Tucker. Frank Carter and
VIII Rogers, and the Fifteenth Infantry
band will jazz away 10 its eternal glory.
Cowboy Poet to Speak. H..
At the Harris Theatre tonight Eddie
Foyer. who is cowboy poet in vaude-
vile, will give himself a benefit with
what he calls musical poelogue," in
which he presents on his own initia-
tive two-hour programme calling for
sixteen different scenes. sixteen cos.
tune changes and lots of applause
While Lamberti's orchestra hits the air
for the high spots Foyer will ride herd
alone on the following poems, among
others: Bert Harte's Heather
Chinee"; D'Arcy's Face on the Bar
room Floor; Kipling's Road to Man
dalay" and THE Vampire" and Sery-
ices Spell of the Yukon" and-of
course-"The Shooting of Dan Nc
Crew." which a public recIter would
never forego unless he were shot him
self.
The entire company playing in the
Greenwich Village Follies' at the Nora
Bayes Theatre have been invited to at
party at Tammany Hall on October 81
and be the widest madcaps ever. The
principal event will be the formal
browning of those important jewellers
IN the company. Clara Tice and Bobby"
EDWARDS, who will be beaned as King
ana Queen of Bohemia. having recently
announced their engagement and laid
themselves open to attention.
1t Is limited pretty strongly by Oliver
Morosco that he has just engaged Helen
Shipman, Ben Mulvey, Lynn Overman
and Laura Arnold for his second pro-
duction of the season. Smith, Jones and
Brown" which is now under the ether
at rehearsal.
Madison Corey having finished with
the war in France, has left his work as
director OF entertainments with the
A l.. F., and In association with Thomas
Stark will return to directing the enter
tainment of the public with THE Grass
Widow" the musical comedy by Rem
mold Wolf, Claiming Pollock and Louis
A Hirsch which the PRODUCERS will pre-
sent In the tall grass country Later the
new firm will have a farce on their
minds and will conduct a bureau abroad
for the purpose of sending overseas an
A. Z. f. of home grown plays and
players.
"Chu Chin Chow's" Record.
"Chu Chin Chow" had a worlds rec
ord birthday last Wednesday when the |
London company at His Majesty's The |
atre presented the 1.467th consecutive
making one more than the
previous high score of "Charley's Aunt"
though not so funny as the latter. This |
achievement was celebrated by a stage |
supper given by Oscar Asche, and when |
Morris Gest heard of 1t he wired the |
American "Chu Chin Chow" companv
In Cleveland to have chow also that
night and to send a cable to Mr.. Asche
him on still having his
appetite after producing the show so
long.
A playlet of San Francisco's "China-
town." which has been playing the Loew |
Vaudeville circuit under the title OF EAST |
IS West has had that name expunged. |
when counsel for William Harris. Jr
PRODUCER of the SUCCESS at the Astor |
rheatre, called attention to the fact that |
Mr.. Harris held all the rights to the |
play. including those to the title and |
he peanuts so necessary to the plot.
The "Shubert Gaieties of 1918" re-
signed from the Winter Garden last
light in order TO take up a new position
n Philadelphia tomorrow
Hermione Shone ana William X, Har-
Hast and George Mooser to comfortable
'erths in Dorothy Donnellys new play
Forbidden"
Ruth Shepley, leading woman of
Adam and Eva" at the Longacre Thea
re, not content with getting a dozen leg
lorn chickens of her own a thinking part
n the last act of the comedy, has set
hem to work laying eggs to pay her the
ocular agents commission. BY selling
hese to fellow members of the company
It 81 a dozen, she has so far cleared a
'onus on the chickens OF S23.50, and the
are beginning to fear she
nay lay on for r. week some time and
ct the chickens work for her
Cloves Kinkead has subscribed $3.50 to
he Harvard endowment fund for the
lse of Prof George p. Baker, in whose
laywriting course, English ~, Mr.. Kin
lead worked up speed for Common
lay"
While Nothing But Love" now at the
4yric Theatre, was playing in Boston,
Andrew Tombes, the leading comedian,
lad his horoscope cast by an astrologer |