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13 BROOKLYN LIFE K. Vanderbilt 2nd, Mr. and Mrs Trubes Davison, Mrs. Frank Henderson, Mr. and Mrs.

Artemus L. Gates, Mr. S. Bryce Wing, Miss Joan Whitney, Mr. George Mil-burn, Mr.

Morgan Vanderbilt, Mrs. George Baker, Mr. Devereux Milburn, Mrs. Deering Howe and Mrs. William Fairchild.

Stone taking the lead. This part of the program was full of racing, wild Indians, the cracking of pistol and rifle shots, fancy roping, cowboys and everything else that goes to make the West wild. Harry Cram as Chief Near Bear led his braves in the war dance; they included Harry Cram, Frankie Hitchcock, Ben Phipps, -Hubert Phipps, George Kent, John Pratt, Winston Guest, Archie Alexander, Roy Rainey, Harry Nicholas, Freddie Nicholas, Walter MaynarL Theodore Dreier, Hey wood Clark, John Shin, Bobby Young, Harry Orr and Raymond Gcsti The same group also appeared in the; Indian race. In: the trick riding exhibition were Morgan Chaney, Charley Aldrich, Fred Stone and Frank Tinney, Miss Oakley pulverized innumerable glass balls, and at the finish there was a whirlwind attack upon a stage by a band of Coman-ches with a last-minute rescue by cowboys as a final thrill. Motor Hippodrome and Wild West' Show Fred Stone proved on Monday afternoon, July 3rd, that he can make as big a success out of an out-of-door benefit as he does out of musical comedies season after season, even with the handicap of a postponed date due to the rain on Saturday.

Four thousand persons filled' the" fair grounds -at Mineola, L. to see this motor hippodrome and wild West circus, and proclaimed it a great show from beginning to end. The program opened with the motor hippodrome, which consisted of eight stages mounted on trucks. The trucks drove along in front of the grandstand, stopping in front of each, section to give a complete performance, making four or five exhibitions in all. The B.

F. Keith Boys' Band played throughout fhe afternoon. The Lambs' Club truck showed "The Lambs' Store," and among those taking part In the skit, under the direction of Percival Knight, were Andrew Mack, Robert Wolsey, Arthur Aylsworth, Frank Belcher, Arthur Burkly, Arthur Bordoni, Victor Morley, Paul Porter, Tom Lewis and a number of The Madison 'Square Garden truck displayed a boxing exhibition, with Mickey Donley vs. "Red Cap" Raymond Hubbell was director of the prima donna truck, which received much applause, and among the singers were the Misses Belle 1 Story, Marie Carroll, Louise Kelly, Nannette Flack, Helen Falconer and Anne Wheaton. This was followed by an acrobatic truck, with Monroe and Grant and Tommy Bell, also Fred Wilson as Daddy Long Legs.

Hippodrome truck was a large lion's cage in which I Fred Walton acted as trainer for Timothy O'Connor, 5 lion; William Stanley, dog; William Ward, monkey, i and Bob Rosair, donkey. The Friars' Club truck showed a mystery melodrama by George M. Cohan, staged by William Collier, with an all-star cast from the club. There was also a National Vaudeville Asso-! ciation truck with stars of vaudeville and the Freeport Light's Club truck with a performance staged by Victor Moore. A Wild West exhibition full of thrills made up the second half of the bill, with such prominent enter- tainers as Miss Annie Oakley, Frank Tinney and Fred llox Holders and Spectators The boxholders, most of whom were present, included Mrs; R.

J. Caldwell, Mrs. William K. Dick, Mrs. C.

C. Auchincloss, Mrs. Lewis M. Gibb, Mr. Paul M.

Warburg, Mr, and Mrs. Devereux Milburn, Mr. and Mrs. J. Watson Webb, Mrs.

Walter Maynard, Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, Mrs. Frederick Guest, Mrs. F.

Ambrose Clark, Mrs. Monroe D. Robinson, Mrs. Frederick W. Allis, Mr.

and Mrs. Sidney Borg, Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. W.

R. Grace, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, Mr. and Mrs.

Newton Green, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hays, Mr.

and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. David F.

Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, Mrs. William Sheehan, Mrs.

Robert Tod, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Knowlton, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Pratt, Mrs. H. P. Davison, Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick W. Allen and Mr, and Mrs. Daniel F. Murphy.

Also Mrs. Willard Straight, Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Rainey, Mr.

and Mrs. W. V. Hester, Mr. and Mrs.

Harold I. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, Mr.

and Mrs. Goadby Loew, Col. and Mrs. Francis L. Robbins, Mr.

Victor Morawetz, Mrs. Edward Stettinius, Mr. and Mrs. Courtlandt D. Barnes, Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph P. Grace, Mr. and Mrs. John iS.

Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Kent, Mr. and Mrs.

Childs Frick, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank; Gulden, Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Stein, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Baker, Mr. and Mrs. J. Newton Gunn, Mrs. James A.

Burden, Walter E. Frew, Mr. H. P. Bingham, Mrs.

Bradish Johnson, Mrs. William G. Park and Mr. and Mrs. Alex-, ander S.

Webb. Miss Barbara Whitney and Miss Felicia Fisk were among the attractive cigarette sellers. Miss Marie Norton was another enthusiastic worker with Miss Adele Ryan and Miss Joan Whitne Proceeds for Hospitals More than $10,000 was raised for the Occupation Therapy Society, since not onefof the performers, either amateur or professional, received anything for his services. Ten per cent, of the netproceeds from the entertainment will be given to the I Nassau County Hospital and the Nassau Tuberculosis Sanitarium, an4 the bulk will be given to the Occupation Therapy Society for curative, convalescent workshop and for training occupation teachers for' hospitals in New York City and State. Society women and girls sold out the entire supply of drinks and ice cream cones to the big crowd, adding to the fine sum realized from the ticket sales.

Mrs. John T. Pratt was chairman of the Long Island Committee and Mrs. J. Drexel, was chairman of the Westchester Committee, the two groups including some 400 prominent society men and women.

Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan is secretary of the society and took an active- part in the 'work for the benefit. Mrs. Robert A.

Lovett was chairman of the large Field Committee, many of whom were present, including Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, Miss Barbara Whitney, Mrs. William Edison July Special Rudyard Kipling's Home Spring is Rudyard Kipling's favorite season, spring in rural England. He always plans to spend it at Batemans, his farm of 500 acres on the Sussex Downs. In his study up among the gables of the rambling old Elizabethan house he. spends three hours every morning in writing, but the afternoons are devoted to his admirably managed, well stocked farm.

THE dressing rooms that housed the first actors who ever made pictures in the now famous Hollywood section of Los Angeles are coming down. As part of the house cleaning and studio building pro-( gram being carried on at the Christie Studio in preparation for the elaborate production program for Christie Comedies under the new 1922-1923 arrangement with Educational, the dressing rooms along Gower Street are being razed to make room for scene docks and another covered stage. These historic buildings were once part of a roadhouse and were transformed into dressing rooms in 1911 for such actors as the late Harold Lockwood and Russell Bassett and for Dorothy Davenport, Eugenie Forde, Victoria Forde and Jack Conway. All were members of the Nestor Company, which, under Al Christie's management, filmed the first pictures in The Impresario of French Revolution The French historian, George LenoT tre, whose history of the little 'lost Dauphin, Louis XVII, was published in this country last fall by Doubleday, Page Company, has published a later book in Paris under the title, "The Impresario of the French Revolution." The "impresario" was Baron Jean de Batz, "the great unknown" of Gascony. book has been translated into German.

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