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Show YOUTHFUL THESPIANS VIE IN SELLING RED CROSS TICKETS J Pretty Miss Cuddles, Who Has Been Selling Tickets for Red Cross Matinee at Orpheum. t COMPETITION that has almot reached the point of bitter rivalry rival-ry has arisen anions the members mem-bers of the "'Cuddles'' Fdwards company of players in ''A Bandbox Revue ' ' at the Orpheum theater. Fretty Miss Ou idles and her companions compan-ions have undertaken to make a record advance sale of the tickets tor the big Ornheiun Red Oros benefit next Friday Fri-day morning at Ui;4,T o'clock. At the conclusion of their act on the Orpheum bill the members of the company in the costumes of their lat son; number, together to-gether with Al Herman, the blackface comedian, who follows them 0:1 the bili, nave been going into the audienc offering the tickets for sale. The com-" petition came about through a remark that one 01 the of the younu-tc'-s ma ie to another that she would sell the mot tickets. With each performance the rank of the ticket sellers is changing and at each show one or the other has figured out some new plan for makmir his or ht'r work stand out suf f ici :nt ly to get the lion's share of the ti.ket saie-j. Little Vincent O'Dnnnell, "the kid McCormark. ' ' whose last Ming is mi in a cowboy costume, st a rted a new stunt Friday evening. Vincent went tl.roiv!: the audience and then back to the stage, where he Inudly ' ' dared ' ' , anyone to hit him witii a dollar. Tins' met the instant ay prcvnl ot the audi- : ence and he was hterallv showered with money, which material'v swelled his total fur the day. Now Vincent is pre-empting the stunt f.r e ery show. 1 The Or; heum Red t ro-s benefit per-i formaure wii!' ccmi-t of the regular j Orpheum vaudeville bill, which will be; headed bv K !d:e Km and the Seven1 Ycuntcr Foys in their late.-? act. "Thei Old Wunian Who Lived in the Shoe."'! an.! in ndditimi to the vainie-ille bid tkre will probablv be one or two n-S f contribut.-d bv l.cnl artitt!i. Kverv t portion i f the entertainnient by the jterformers, the mn simians, the stijc j hands, the enn!oves of the ' f rue.t ' 1 of the huiir-e wii! be donated an 1 the entire eross receipt of the show will tie eiven to the Ameriiau Red Crosa so'detv. The national tlient ri-nl benefit day had it- origin in the expressed desire of theaters n'l over thp counrv to dn 1 son:et h i n 2 for the American Red I'r-s ocietv. Jt was determined 'o make the effort a united due and Io-ember 7 was chosen the tin v. The morning At 10M.1 o'clo.-k w.t fixed a the time heefuie a retrulr'-r irfnrmanco ii eivrti "a-h nftern'KTi and evrnintr. Tins irr-formalize irr-formalize will be rivr n at the m, :i.e bnur in everv Ori-heum fhfritr in the "'! and south and in nil of the aft-.h-'ited K'h tn"-3ter throughout t!)e r-.t-t. It is e-rinnted that these hons"-ha hons"-ha a combined eatin,' c.na-itv ul eif"-e than a nuarter of r million, jtnd if the -'M' "rile pUowMTe ren.'het the rrfc,,pctiv Sn It Lnl-o total eapa itv an 'ben ces will greet the dmw everv whre. -. 'vf : -: '- s v i - - '. . 'V v i :...v. v..".. ...-.".. s "': ' . ' .- . " 'SSftfe :SaSi J . " -.'- - . . . tj i. '. ... 1 t I . |