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Show THOUSANDS CHEER FILM STf S COUPE Florence La Badie in White Pullman Scores Hit on Broadway. Surrounded by nearly 5000 "bulls" and "bears" in Wall street, Florence La Badie, star of the Thanhouser Film corporation, whose face is known to lovers of the movies everywhere, climbed to the top of her Pullman white coupe last Saturday in a L'ifjantic ra!lv for the cause of the New York World 's fund for the illumination of the Statue of Libertv. Never before in the history of New York's financial district the money mart of the world has a woman, aided and abetted by such a handsomely appointed ap-pointed motor car, created such a furore as did Miss La Badie. Twenty-five mounted policemen were needed to hold the immenao crowd in check. With the assistance of five youne women, who carried replicas of the Statue of Liberty, Miss La Badie collected a magnificent sum for the illumination illu-mination fund, the whole rally consuming consum-ing less than ten minutes. In appreciation of Miss. La Badie V brilliant work before the camera, the Thanhouser Film corporation suirested that she select for her own use the most beautiful car that she could find. Her Pullman coupe was finished in an ivorv white with silver-plated rims and fittings, fit-tings, broadcloth tapestry and rose-eol-orcd silk curtains. The car was shipped from York, Pa., the home of the Pullman, in a special' express car, accompanied bv two special guards, and was met upon its arrival at 2 o'clock in the morning- at Jersey Utv by the Pullman traffic manager and assistants from the New York branch. |