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Show STARS TD STAGE BENEFIT SETS Salt Lake Expected to Rank High in Receipts at Performance. Eeprusientative theatrical talent tlie country over will appear in benefit performances per-formances fo swell the actors' fund Friday, Fri-day, and while Melntyre and Heath, the blackface comedians, are making merry, before a New York audience, Chauncey Olcott will headline the very attractive bill to be presented Friday afternoon t tho bait Lake 1 heater. So enthusiastic enthu-siastic lias been Hie response to the call of Daniel Frohnmn, president of tUi Actors' Fund of America, that capacity houses are expected in all the large cities and the committee in charge of the local program confidently expects the famous Salt Lake theater to stand high in the returns collected. Governors of states have expressed their appreciation of the work of actors ac-tors and actnossce in entertaining men from their respective commonwealths in rest areas ' overseas, and other public pub-lic officers arc giving time, effort and money to the enterprise. According to a letter received by George D. Pyper, manager of the Salt Lake theater, from President Frohman, 100 cents out of every dollar subscribed for tickets goes direct to the fund and ninety-nine cents goes to alleviate the suffering and privation which is often the actor's lot. The organization has been distributing more than 60,000 a year to the sick and indigent actors. During the war the annual benefits were not held. Disbursements during that period "were made by the more fortunate members of the profession, though 3000 actors wore the olive drab. 1500 went overseas as entertainers, and those remaining on this side gave aid in Liberty loan and other drives. The benefit Friday, it is hoped by the organizers, or-ganizers, will put the fund on a firm financial basis. |