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Show Pershing- Nearly Disrupts ! Big Hippodrome Program; j Famous Smile Greets Crowd NEW YORK, Sept. 8. The "Pershing smile," which General John J. Pershing brought home from France, almost broke up a per-I per-I formance at the Hippodrome j which the returning, hero visited tonight, j The general arrived with his party, which included his son, Warren, In the midst of the first act. Cheering of a crowd which j had gathered outside distracted the attention atten-tion of the audience from the stage., and by the time General Pershing appeared in ; the box. decorated with bis persona! flag, j eyes of the cast as weil as the great an- I die nee were trained on him. ) Genera! Pershing stood at salute as the orchestra, almost drowned out by cheers, I played the "Star-Spangled Banner." Ho I bowed repeatedly as the demonstration continued, but smilingly declined the persistent per-sistent cries of "speech" that rose from the aufiieuce. I The performance finally got under way. j hut thereafter both audience a nd cast i were more aware of the preeivn of the j commander in chief than the spectacle on ! the stage. ! Young Warren "Insulted." j i The frO-i'-coated gfnt !rrne;i of Mayo'- , Hyian's w elcoming con i -i ; i i ! deiainMi 'the general .'.0 long at u priaie dinner! , that Warren Pershing did not get to see ; a trained elephant aet and, aa If adding j insult 'to Injury, whisked hts father off to a different box from that in which , Warren was seated. Warren "got even" ! during the intermission, however, by go-1 go-1 ing down to the basement of the theater, where he fed apples to the elephants and shook hands with a score or more of the juvenile "ladies of the chorus." Two special features of welcome were added to the program, shortly after the general arrived a cartoonist set the house cheering afresh when he threw on the screen a welcome to Genera! Pernhlng, whieh he followed with a portrait of the general and a picture of a big St. Bernard dog "for the little general." Drops Laurel Wreath. Later, during a "flower scene," the filmly clad peer of an aerial ballet flew ovw General ePrshlng's box and dropped a laurel wreath. The crowd which greeted, General Pershing Per-shing as he let the theater was even greater than that which had greeted him upon his arrival, anil defied police efforts to che-'k 1 hem in tho rush to get close to the general's car. General Pershing acknowledged the cheers with a smile and a v. ave of his cap. rising from h;s .seat a nd bowj ng as his automobile nosed 1 through the cond. 1 |