The New York herald., 1921-12-01
Babies of Many
Ages and Weights
RepeI at Matinee
Used as Tickets by Their
Mothers for Performance
of Just Married.


''Merclfdl hoavens!" cried Ma Kelleher.
Take your cEilds foot off my Ray
mond's toest" and Ma. strong as she
was. tried vainly 10 push her mammoth
baby boy Raymond. who weighs 300
pounds IL he's a day, out Of the way so
tnat littlo Josie Collins, who weighs 80
pounds, would no longer be standing on
his foot and tickling him. Tins was at
the worlds first baby day matinee yes
terday OF "Just Married" when Ray
inond was congesting the lobby of the
) ora Bayes Theatre.
Look out, JOSIE" exclaimed Ma Col
ms, ''or there'll be an earthquake
She yanked her young hopeful Off RAY
nlcnd's pedestal, Raymond stopped
breathing heavily and the windows
stopped rafting. Raymond, who was
an:ong the youngsters supposedly unae'
five years old, who had been brought as
tickets OF admission TO the matinee by
their parents, was taller than MS
mother, but for some reason Jack Demp-
rev had overlooked him as sparrinS
rnrtner He wore long, black trousers.
a Buster Brown collar and 81 shirt that
mpst have once done duty during the
wnr as q pup tent.
Raymonds $ grunts and his mother
screams of anguish had formed maJo"
part of the bedlam that was being
raised in tho lobby by fifty infants
trc vght by their mothers, some OF them
with bottles and all of them with lungs.
Several of the parents had been waiting
outside the theatre doors since IL O'CLOCK
in the morning. Though only one parent
was to be allowed in the theatre with
each oaby, more than one woman was
rsf "a oh
Taking Too Much Room.
"Here. you," said Clifford Stork, COM
many manager, to Raymond, "you can't
stand around in this lobby-you'r"
taking up too much ROOM" So Ma Kelle-
her shepherded up stairs all OF her Ray.
mond William, whom she calls "R. W."
because his n9me is the only thing about
/ him she can shorten. They went up IN
! the elevator alone. and Ma, who has
grown hefty herself from chaperoning
him. sank with a sigh of relief into
seat in the front box.
| I'm three years and eight months
old" Raymond told Louis Reid and
! James Taylor, secret service agents for
the publicity department, while the cur
1 tain tapped in front Of him. Got
cigarette?" He added that he lived at
| the Hotel Emmett. and the press agents
| later told reporters that he occupied
| two floors there. In the box with him
was Alexander Albert, 5, of 229 West
Fifty-first street. who. despite the fact
! that he was a Russian, also showed evil
dences OF good feeding. The aim of the
management in putting these two in the
same box had evidently been to exhibit
both mems and boys sizes in fat youths.
However, they were put to desperate
measures to balance them on the other
| side OF the auditorium. They had to
cram into one box opposite the family
containing Ruth and Cecil Pine, juvenile
sisters who came from 1925 Fifty-eighth
street, Brooklyn. In the rear OF the
orchestra were gathered the rest Of the
infants and parents. with young bachelor
reporters blushing in unison behind
them.
Showed Tendency to Stray.
1t was rather difficult to corral all the
youngsters before the performance began
! as they showed n tendency to let their
| feet and voices stray in the aisles. How
ever, once the curtain went up they kept
| still and quiet-for a time. Presently
! O chorus of cackles and snorts began.
| but most of their laughter was in the
wrong place. One boy, during the bed
room scene between Lynne Overman and
Vivian Martin, showed the makings of
! a critic, for while he didn't blush once
| he kept shouting, go TO sieep!'
Raymond William leaned all his bulk
on the rail and watched the performance
with absorption. showing an inclination
at times to climb over the footlights and
| help the frail stage longshoremen cast
| off the property steamer.
| Photographers snapped all of the
/ babies. among them ing Edward Con-
! lin, 4 months; Elizabeh McArdle, 4
months; Alexander Schemner, 3 years
J Lillian Mayer. 16 months; Jimmie Tay-
| lor, Jr, 8 months; Ferdie Wilstach.
year; Helen Gottlieb. 81 months: Char
lotte Wieder. IL months: Marian and
| Caroline webber 3 and years old !;
| William Guiremond, years John Can
tor. years Martin Kupper1nan, 3 years
and months, and Francis Patrey. 4
years, 2 months and IL days.