The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
How Organize IoGet Money
 For Charity

Entertainments for charity may take many different forms. Perhaps it would not be amiss to tell of few that have been done with success in and around New York.
 There are always the amateur thea tricals, the subject of my last articles. Then there are performances given by professionals but organized and run by amateurs, in addition to which there are rummage sales, fairs, costume balls, fashion shows, bridge or Nah Jong parties, ect. Isas
 A very good way of raising money, to take over an entire performance of popular play, concert or opera. Mrs. Kenneth O'Brien, for instance, took over one performance of ''The Miracle" the other night, and the Navy Club takes one performance at the Metropolitan Opera House every year.
 This means paying so much for the theatre and the artists, which entails quite a large financial responsibility on the part of the charity Once some charity arranged for a good prize fight, and made I believe a large amount of money and last year rodeo WAS held on a private place on Long Island. In fact, anything that has chance of prov ing popular is good idea.
 Naturally the initial expense should be we'll considered before starting. The criticism made of many charities is that so much is spent unnecessarily. or that the production is so expensive that little is realized for the charity.
 Whether the actual performance is given by professionals or amateurs, a performance for charity has always approximately ,the same method of or ganization. There is generally a chair she may not beSthe regular head of the organization; but is made tho head organizer of theF entertainment. She should form committees under her, naming the head of each committee tan immeasurably important detail) but leaving the choice of each commit tee to the respective heads. No one Individual can possibly run an entire entertainment, and the proof of her efficiency will be her choice of officers. Naturally in the final analysis she is responsible, hence the importance to herself as well as to the charity of her choice of assistants.
 The entertainment to be given nat urally influences the number and types of committees, but almost all charity entertainments need the following: one to get the list of patronessess, one to make the program, (which means get ting the cover donated if possible; and getting as many shops as possible to advertise. which helps considerably financially); one to sell the seats and boxes if it is theatrical performance, or the tickets, boxes and supper tables if it is ball and one to get the artists if the entertainment is to be given by professionals.
 and more less of a revue, in other words series of dances. it is a good plan to put one girl in charge of each dance or tableau, If the entertainment is to be a fair, then the chairman should decide what she is going to have in the way of booths and side shows and make one person responsible for each of them. This means signing up people to help sell, and persuading others to present you with all the goods for the booth.
 In addition to the foregoing there must be a chairman to organize the program sellers, ands sellers of- flowers and candy if desired. Lately there has begun fad for even having volunteer ushers. In fact I have promised to officiate as one at performance to be given for charity in March. I shudder to think of the mess I, for one, will probably make of it!
 The head chairman is naturally SUD- posed to keep track of the progress of the committees, meetings of the com mittees entire.
 The main things to take into con- sideration in giving an entertainment for charity are: to have entertainment good enough to make people want to go to the entertainment given by the same charity next year; to try to get as many things and as much money as possible donated beforehand, in order to keep expenditures down and to have things behind the scenes well run and organized, in order that the partici- pants in the entertainment will also wish to assist next time,