The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 3

- cette ‘6 ‘IN =< Se SS oe a eee eae ———— aa a HAPPY KIDDIE TONGS GET WISH IN “WISHINGDOM” AT TWO PERFORMANCES Breseiiation of Th of The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Spec- tacle Is Gorgeous. BALLOONS FOR ALL, ‘Actors at Manhattan Opera House Had Only *Ten Days’ Rehearsal. ‘The thousands of youngsters who saw the second’ performance to-day of “Wishingdom” by The Evening World Kiddie Klub kiddies at the Manhattan Opera House had not only a treat in the performance but in two other eventa which immedi- ately followed it, First come the dis- tribution of The Evening World vulloons to every child. When these gally colored toys were distributed yesterday it was found that giving them out in the foyer made the matter of clearing the house a long process, So te-day the Gistributers established themselves in 34th Street near Eighth Avenue, and there the kiddies flocked about them. Indeed, #0 dense was the flocking that at one time the street cars were locked and all traffic suspended while the police herded the young- ters on to the sidewalks, ‘The kiddies had difficulty In keep- ing hold of the strngs of their bi loons and hundreds escaped from lit- tle hands and went salling over Man huttan. And once a cluster of 200 0 the colored spheres got away from one of the distributers and went hounding up aloft. This inc dent amused the children quite as much as possession of the balloons, The second post-performance en- tertainment was 4 luncheon given to the kiddie actors in “Wishingdom” by Mrs, Oscar Hammerstein in the reception room on the balcony floor | of the opera house. There the little folk had alt they could eat of all sorts of goodies, When they left the table they looked about as full as did their balloons, The Evening World has cause te be proud of its Kiddie Klub Kiddies and Cousin Eleanor is proud of her little actors and other players, and has good reason to be proud of herself. The performance yesterday went off without a halt or a walt, and it was all that Cousin Eleanor and The Eye- ning World promised !t would be And now that )\“Wishingdom” has proved such @ success, we can let the secret out. The kiddies had only ten days’ re- hearsal. kiddies who were at the opera house yesterday will tell you what a hit “Wishingdom” made, ana the kiddies who are there to-day will back up their Judgment and that of thelr mothers andy big sisters and their cousins and thelr aunts. Oh, what a lot of fun. There wasn’t a moment when the kiddies we laughing or shouting, brushing away a tear, or cheering thelr fellow kid- dies on the stage. And there wasn't @ mama who didn't enjoy the show every bit as much as her kiddie did. Those little artists of Cousin Eleanor couldn't be improved upon, not even by grown-ups, FROM BEGINNING TO END A SPECTACULAR STAGE TRIUMPH, ‘When Musical Director Carl Edou- arde raised his baton above the heads | of the Strand orchestra a wave of plause swept over the house, which just as jammed as it could pos- be, from the orchestra io the ——————____. highest galiery and from the bottem row of boxes to the topmost tier. The appearance of du ity, Margueri Uainsford was the signal for anoth outburst, and when she finished the song, the words, music and score, uf which she herself composed, she had furnishea the key to the spectacle. Not only did her soug, “The Land of Wishes,” unfold the scenario of the spectucle, but her singing of it and the dainty dance accompanying 1, gave the hint of the high standard wf the litle artists to come. She was rapturously recewved aid her as knowledgment of the reception was 48 gracious as that of a tried profes- sional veteran Bernard Cohen and Natalie Purvin were Buddy and Beth, the kiddies sleep on Christmas ve and f all the happenings in Wishingdom.” Bernard was a very wide-awake boy, but Nutalie was just the cutest and moat natural litte girl and just a8 much at home on the stage as she might be in her own home. The acting of the kiddies was one surprise alier another, Into the dreams of Buddy und beth come five tiny fairies, the e.dest of which didn't appear to be more thup #< years old. They were led by litte Murion Coffey, who took the part of Pirst Pairy at less than eight hours’ notice. The rest of the tots were Jane Coffey, Emma Livingston, M Elizabeth Steel and Theresa Grun wild, and they went through their dance of the fairies with wonderful poise and per- fect rhythm, Spirit (Marguerite Rainsford again) greets Buddy and Beth and all three follow the fairies into the Land of Wishes. Here Harry Tartalsky does; a cute bit of character acting as the old Town Crier, and We glimpse Edna | Wood as Night Sprite, who does a delightful and spritely dance, Then Gladys Rappaport follows ‘in the Moonbeam dance, and the light effects both terpsichorean feats add to heir charms, Little Doris Scott. makes another | nit as a street fiddler, playing her music’ into the hearts of the kiddies and fairies and the entire audience, and is only ten. The little kiddle wonderful promise for the future. Singer of > terlike sripothie . and her “Piper of delightful ey Herman as the clown was as funny as the real blowa-in-thesboitic, Barnum & Bailey article, He was in Kiddies scream at his antics, But, oh! merciful goodness and goodness werey! See whos here Little Jerome Baker, four years old, tn the entre of the stage with his litte Pussy Kat which Artist Fraeh of The World made for him. Jerome just Uekled the house to death. nen there was Mildred Arons as the grumpy little Grumpot, the vil- lain, who made the awful pact with the ‘witch Meyer, to turn the white charger of Prt I into a bluck skate, Queen, Janet was aw Well, the Land of Wishes, with its big Christmas tree and its snow back- ground, its quaint houses, was wil ed with kiddies nd fairies and sprites and everything, when into the ploture runs little “Buste “" Watt na Russian military costume, lt boots and all. She didn't seem big- ger than half a minute, but how that liiddie can dance! That dance never was more perfectly performed, and uster” didn't omit a step, a turn, a < or gesture of tt. She had the audience on Its feet, and three times during the dance the house came down, and when she squatted and danced heracif off the stage the audi- ener stood up and cheered. Marion and Jane Coffey, the cutest tots ever, did a doll dance, which even the boy kiddies in the audience loved and the mamas just said, “Oh, Oh! the darlings.” And there was by Anna Maguire anish dance by Virginia one more graceful than but which, {t was hard to | determine And then, still another treat and great surprise, Into the crowd in the Land of Wishes there suddenly came little Viola Mattfeld in the raiment Winds of mix-ups and made the 9,000 KIDDIES HAPPY AS GUESTS OF EVENING WORLD Children Hail Santa Claus With Loud Cheers at Strand Theatre Party. MOVIES ARE ENJOYED. andy for All and Toys for the Crippled Little Ones— Boys’ Band Plays. When Santa Claus appeared In th: “Strand Theatre this morning at Th Evening World's Christmas show for 000 kiddies, | children, more than 65, mostly from the East Side, hailed him with loud acclaim The entertainment proper was scheduled for 10.30, The, boys and girls were early in their seats for they didn't intend to miss any part of it—and in order to furnish vent for their overflowing spirits, singing was started. The children were led by J. Hamilton Lewis, Chief Pxecu tive of the Boy Scouts of Maassa- chusetts, and probably they had no notion of how much they contributed to the enjoyment of the grown-upr who had worked hard to make the show a success, Popular and patri- otic airs swelled through the theatre The fairies run away and Fellow! '" mighty chorus. And the whistling! Those Enet de boys—and some of the girls, too —proved themselves world champions at mass whistling, An efghty-plece band from the He brew Orphanage, a band from the Boys’ Club of Avenue A and 10th Street, and a Boy Scouts’ fife an¢ drum corps helped with the music every one of the young musician seemingly putting his soul into hi: work. ‘There were motion pictures, Boot) Tarkington's “Edgar's Little Saw" | and “Nineteen and Phyllis," featurin | Charles Ray, and another show|ne Santa Claus leaving his ice palace in the far north and traversing several continents before he arrived here to fill stockings. And then was so litte she lobked lke a doll And then she begun to dance on the house began to pop. She dance with relia and sh danced with her fan, She ran and turned and curtseyed and her e movement was the essence of grac and rhythm, and ghe fairly eaptu the house, “Then another great h was “I'l! Be Your Valentine,” sun by Helen Maguire. No sweeter valen tine could be wished for on the four- teenth of February. The Rose Ballet in the Queen's Court was one of the most beautiful things In *Wishingdom.” Cer yo prettier picture could be imagi than the six little toe dancers in th rose-colored ballet costumes, pirouet- ting easily and gr court. And then tfere burst upon the vision the Queen Rose of them all, dainty and beautiful little Vie- toria Gilpin, the premiere ballerina, by the courtesy of Vestoff and Ser- ova, and indeed the realization of the land of wishes and dreams seemed fulfilled in this dear little kiddie's smiles and sinuous movements, the grace of her feet and hands, the tura of her head and aerial flights, Her attendants in the ballet were Sylvia Binder, Grace Hedenkamp, Kyelyn Saether, Florence Gunther, Margaret Gilligan and Emily Schu- man, : It is in this scene that Cousin Fleanor makes her appearance as the Queen, All the entertainment was for the Queen and Cousin Eleanor looked the part, a little Queen, but every Inch a Queen, And then, in passing, after seeing all the wonder- ful dancing, It reminds one that it was Mrs. Sam Carter-Waddell who trained the dancers and Mr, Carl Edouarde arranged the. music and condu joatra. of a Japanese maid, Honestly, she oted the orch A HER REN eee 1 TE SOENa OT We OUR Dear Tm JERGmME BAKER - VIOLA MATRIELO @tage name ts Joseph Martell, ac companied by Estelle Carey, sopran whg was drcssed as a doll und san “A Doll's Wooing,” @lich seored nit. Santa has some must surprisin Jacks-in-boxes which, when sprum open, disclosed the heads of a qua tet of singers, John Young and fra Miller, tenors; George Reardon, bn tone, and Donald Chalmers, bu who, sung “Still Night, Holy Night Every kiddie in tho house receive box of candy contributed by Mr ‘ullan Goldman, and the several hu ired ar xl children, guests were ven toys which Mrs. Blunohe Krolinberg contrivuted—dolls, sets of je dishes, tops and mechanica! Leys. Miss Sophie Irene Loeb spuke riefly for The Evening Werld and om behalf of th niidren offers hanks to Joseph L. Plunkett, manag- ng director of the Strand, and R. Al red Jones, house manpger, for chelt indness in contributing the theatre and helping stage the performance She also thanked the performers, unong whom were Irma Frisch of Vhe Evening World Kiddie Klub, who | save a violin solo, and the girl ushers ind the Fifth Avenue Bus Company, vhich loaned twenty buses to carry ne crippled children to and from thy how. “The thing that makes a show 1 ke | his possible," said Miss Loeb, “is the | act that we Ly n America—a coun- cry whch bax at heart always the Neifare of everybody living In It. Al- ways remember that you are Ameri- ‘eng, Stand by your country and flag and think and act always as Ameri- cans,"" Adolph Lewisohn, in a bref but fe Heltous addre. a The Evening World for conunu he last five to g ve entertainments for chilt Associated with Harr dircetor In char of t ment, were William Kiss, Superin- tendent of the Boys’ Club: C, Harold Helliwell, Associate Superintendent, and Charles Ayres and A. E. Coppins, lao connected with the Boys" Club, ASH REMOVAL DELAYED. Deuble Holiday and Storm Cause for Unemptied Cans. ‘The accumulation of unemptied aah cans in New York was explained to-doy by Acting Street Commis: | sioner E that the double holiday of Christmas and Sun day started the accumulation and t storm on Munday had made tt ne H, Schlact, ti to concentrate paid it wo! days more to ca work on New may bo no repetition of the accu & woek, "GANNON CASE ARGUMENTS. ULPVIULAND, Dec, 29.—The case vt Chief Justice © charged with the » Municipal Court, sagy. on the n of May 7, was ex 4 We dnus Of Le Jur, tHe avewive woRup; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER WISHINGDO BOY GETS WEAPONS, HOUSEHOLDER NOT, BY SULLANLAW Discrepancy Uncovered in In- vestigation of Bomb Ex- plosion Which Killed Boys. peculiar twist in the law regant- ‘og firearms, which prevents, citizens weoping revolvers In thelr bomen to protect themsclves against bandite hut permits sixteen-year-old boys to own and use rifles or shotguns, was brought out to-day by Detective Caney of the Grand Avenue Police Station, Brooklyn, when he ques- tioned victiins of the home-made ty horhh that exploded Sunday at No, 129 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, and MIled sixteen-yenr-old John F, Mo- Kennedy. Herbert Bramm, sixteen, who made he bomb, and Paul Clandow, seven- en, both in the Swedish Hospital, ‘old Detective Casey they had ob- sined rifle permits at the Municipal quilding by eiving their ages as eigh- een years and paying, $1.60 each. rhey went shooting at Bergen Beach tundays, they told Casey. Thelr ex- corience !# in contrast with that of sany ettizens whose applications for stol permits have been flatly denied y the police. Bramm, who lost his left hand and ft,eye in the explosion, and Clandow, whdse injuries were less serious, a telieved on the road to recovery. RBramm, who firret sald he bad found the bomb, made of a plece of gas Dine, at Bergen Beach, confided to Casey had made it himself because he "aaa a mania for firecrackers and explos- ives, He obtained his knowledge of explosives from a dictionary and amateur chemistry books he said. und oven made his own powder. At his home the police found a large box packed with chemical ap- paratus of a crude sort, and jt is be- Heved his inexperience led to faults in the contrivance that caused, the bomb to explode when he tried to take It apart Sunday. PBeaie <td MERCHANT SLAIN IN SIGHT OF CROWD Assassin Eludes Cordon of Police Thrown Around Scene of Christie Street Crime, Salvatore Mauro, of No. 121 East Houston Street, was shot and killed In front of No, 280 Chrystie Street this morning by an assassin who es- coped. Mauro, a chense dealer at No, 292 Mizadeth Street, had left his home and was on the way to bis store when a man stopped from a recess and fired a bullet into the victim's back. A passerby took to his heels when the assassin pointed the revolver at tim and the man stepped Into the hallway at No. 290, Capt. Arthur Carey of the homicide bureau called the reserves from Fifth Street Sta- tion and put a pollceman Into every house, Then Detective Gusset went through the buildings, but found no trace of the nrurderer. The eye witness of the crime re- enacted it for Capt. Carey while an Interested crowd looked on. No mo- tive for the killing was learned by the police. A loaded revolver was found on Mauro, C. G. Gunther's Sons 891 Fifth Avenue OUR CENTENARY SALE will close on December 3lst, the time when our January reductions customarily go into effect. have therefore decided to combine both. For the Final 2 Days in addition to the present substantial reductions which the Centenary Sale offers, will be added further reductions which we ordinarily make in January. 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No trouble, he nad, te a experienced In obtaining workers, ‘The Amalgamated Clothing Works jog — era of America has issued tickets for | a gigantic festival, to be held ont New Yeu Day afternoon for the children of the. strikers, in Grand (> Central Palace; No. 96 Clinton Street, ind Beethoven Hall, Manhattan, af ‘ ' { { Nrownevilie Labor Lyceum, No. $28) I t i 4 Sackman Street, and New Plase Hall, Rrooklyn, and at Now Amsterdam Hall, Newark. ; A check from workers in Rochester for $10,000 and one for $600 trom Polish local in Chicago, were recatwed 0c? for the defense fund, Rochester workers weve pledged $100,000 and Chicago 7 re eae tote PENROSE, GOING TO CAPITOL, os Wl Take Charge of Fights Over. oe Rmergency Tarttt, WASHINGTON, Dec, 29.—flenator Penrose*of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Finance Committee is expected tn ’ Washington next week to take personal ome 2 charge of the fight over the Emer- Rees), : gency Tariff Bill Senator McCumber, “** rarfcing Republican member of | the.” nt committees annaunced to~ Consideration of the bill ‘wilt awatt t Penrone's coming, but an Informal eon- ‘ ‘ ‘ ference. of Republican mei committee will be held to-morrow, the Republicans agree that the must be radically changed to : the votes of # majority fr the Senate, * a, We