The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-07-21
JOYOUS THRONGS
OF KIDDIE KLUB
IN LUNA REVELS
Gates Open Early to Admit
Thousands Who Delight in
Free Shows and Rides.

What glorious day for the outing
Of The Evening Worlds Riddle Klub
al Luna Park! And what a glorious
holiday the l0iddies and their mothers
and big sisters and some OF their dads
are making of At! Thousands and
thousands of them were heading for
Coney Island from all five hnronghs
Of Greater New York long before
many of their relatives were on their
way to their offices, shops and
counters.
thousands of them were clamoring
at the gates of Luna hours before the
park is usually thrown open to the
public. The Riddles in white and
blue and pink and other light-colored
froc1ks, everyone of them wearing a
Riddle Klub button, poured down to
the Brooklyn Bridge from upper New
York, Harlem and the Bronx, and
ever from the East Side and West
Side and up from Staten Island. They
cars and slowed away in the subway
In Brooklyn and Queens the Riddles
had the right OF way, and extra cars
and extra trains were headed in the
early hours for Coney and kept on
coming up to and after the noon hour
when the gates were thrown open foI
the rush into Luna Park. Cousin
Eleanor, the kiddies big cousin, and
their queen, was an early arrival al
Luna and when she saw the great
Icrowd of early corners she interceded
with Manager Herbert Evans and his
assistant. Victor Stewart, TO throw
open the gates an hour before start
ing time,
The Kiddie Iilub "show" began al
one o'clock and kept right on going
for the rest of the afternoon. AnC
all the time the other shows in Luna
were going. the swings and the rides
and the slides, and the Riddles were
swarming all over the grounds. Their,
are more than 100000 members o.
the Kiddie Klub.
And say, Riddles, isn't this the
wonder dav in our lives. We
said the show began. We mean the
shows began. Talk about Barnum 6
Balleys and Ringling's! They Won
be in It with their six rings and plat
forms. We are going TO have sever
shows, seven! Count 'em. Seven
What are we talking about? Their
will be seven kiddie shows in IN,
Coiner's Den, all by our Riddles. Their
outside-oh, my! Look at the fret
shows Of Luna, the seven circus act
and all the free rides.
Wen say it's going to be day.
gala day, red letter day, a regular
real, honest to goodness never saw
the like genuine, blown in the bot
tie Kiddie Day!
Kousin Madge Van Camp Is one o
Tho youngest and cutest Of the kid
dies. She's only four and you ough
90 see her playing with the little pig
gy-wiggies which perform in Lun
for her mother. And say, do 70
smallest OF all the Riddles and sh
has the longest act on the bill Of far
oh, no, the programme?
And then there's another little Kid
die who is going 10 grow up TO be
regular Miss Rudyard Kipling o
something like that. She's made up
poem all by herself and recbtes 1t JUS
too sweetly. She calls II IF ! Wer
Blind" and 1t tells what a little kid
die could and would do II she wer
afflicted by the loss of sight
Another Riddle who Is brand new {
us Is Hazel Lissner, who is n regu
lar actor just like they have in III
big theatres. She gives mutations q
Frisco-you know Frisco; but jus
wait till you see her And wait, to'
till you hear Bessie COzin play ne
! violin. My! we have some artlsts-a
artists.
We only told you yesterday abou
one of Kiddie Josephine Waddcl
, dances, the Parasol Dance, but IN
has another, the River Dance. w
, don't have 20 tell you again how swe,
/, and graceful and unaffected Kidd
! Kousin Josephine is. You prObabl
! know all About her from The Wis.,
ing Ring last year and she all