The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Big Equity Ball
HadChaplin Among
a Thousand Stars
Comedian in Cut-Up Mood at
6 A. NJ. Among Other
Attractions.

AT sixteen minutes to six O'Clock yes
terday morning Charlie Chaplin strolled
from the ballroom of the Hotel Astor
into the main lobby. arms locked with
comrade of the general architectural
lines of the heavy browed ogre who used
TO swing him through the air and hurt
ling to the sidewalk in movies OF mirth-
full memory.
Across the floor stretched the long
suction tnbe of the hotel vacuum cleaner
to action like the S~-of Camera :"
His toes suddenly turned outward in
the familiar manner his derby jumped
to comedy tilt, and stepping astride
the tube he balanced lightly, then ran
down its length, negotiated a difficult
turn in midair. AMI ran back again.
Then he took q bow
"Loolit," shouted some one. Charlie
Charles a tight wirewalker"
Charlie misconstrued. First he looked
hurt, then disdainful, and with an ex-
preston that plainly said mo tight
wirewalker could walk q tightwire like
l did just now" he made for the door
and dived into taxicab For the Hero
of Ten Thousand Custard Pies the
Actors Equity Ball was memory.
Back in the ballroom, however, there
were countless others TO whom o'clock
was merely the beginning of the eve
ninS-or morning. Up in n box Ernest
Glendinning and Arnold Daily sat to-
gether humming Landlord Fill the
Flowing Bowl" and affirming it "Glo-
rious 10 be out in a night like this" over
a draught of White Rock or something,
proving that there was still some con-
VITALITY left in at least one Tavern in
Little Old New York.
John Drew Present.
Behind them, and smiling benignly
on their youthful spirits, John Drew
stood ficking a bit of the ash Of his
impeccable cigarette from the sleeve of
his impeccable dinner coat. Down on
the floor Frank Bacon's silvery LOCKS
coyly tickled the ear of a young ingenue
as he dispatched the difficult steps of
the foxtrot with as mean toe as ever
followed a swarm of bees across the
prairie. Watching them sat Miss Clara
Kimball Young. frankly bored, and
faithfully registering midsummer ennui
Across the room Frank Craven and Mrs
Frank Craven were thoroughly enjoy
Ing each others company, proving that
married life sometimes works out all
right If you can get past the First Year
Douglas Stevenson and Miss Lorraine
Manville fitted by In tricky bit Of n
dance. Hitchy-Koo Hitchcock, having
grasped his forlock and hidden at the
report OF barber running amuck, got
the call Of "All Clear and emerged from
far corner of the ballroom, and he and
the young lady Joined the dancers. An
impudent young man was playfully slap
ping the unadorned back of large lady
with resounding whacks. Nobody was
.rIt err bot . 90 -
pageant.
And so on, until long after the sun
had thrown it's good morning slant up
Broadway. They were all there-the
dramatic stars, the comedy queens. the
movie heroes, here and there Green
witch Villager. and. interspersed through
out. a, .goodly sprinkling of the great
common people. who had come to see the
Irecreational side of the show shop-the
actors at play.
Some Special Numbers.
For advertisement there were special
numbers, on the ballroom floor, by
various leading lights OF Broadway. in
Guiding Mr. Hitchcock, Miss Grace
Moore and girls, Fred Stone. James
I Clemens, Miss Dorothy Dickson and
Carl Hyson. the Duncan Sisters and
Savoy and Brennan. A grand pageant
staged by IIassard Short, closed this
section of the entertainment, with Miss
Dorothy Jardon singing the official
Equity song for the finale
Everybody said It was the greatest
Of all Equity balls The receipts-an
admission fee Of So was charged
amounted to several thousand dollars,
which will be utilized TO wage a cam
paign looking to the betterment OF con-
ditions for the profession. The pro-
gramme includes more sanitary dressing
rooms compelling managers OF touring
companies to put UP bond TO insure
1 return fare to the point at which the
companies are organized. and making
it unlawful to misrepresent the person
mel Of casts. and compelling managers
to post conspicuousiy the true names
Of the players at every performance.