Show BET IS PAID WITH BENEFIT TICKETS Two Bu Business iness Men at Theatre Theatre Theatre The The- atre Wager as to Sex of Young ODonnell Two prominent business men attended attended at at- tended tel the tho Orpheum theatre last evening evening evening eve eve- ning and it was not until the Gus Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards act A Bandbox Revue appeared ap lip- red pe-red that one of them happened to think of at the sale of tickets for tor the Orpheum Orpheum Orpheum Or Or- Rod Cross benefit at 1045 o'clock next Friday morning A hasty search revealed only 4 45 cents and he knew that within a few minutes the clever little girls which surround Cuddles Edwards would be be in the audience selling the benefit tickets tickets and and they sell for 50 cents each This business man however was a regular business man He started an immediate argument with his com companion compan pan I ion and finally talked the latter into lato betting him the tho price of the Red flea RedCross RedCross I Cross tickets that little Vincent ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnell O'Donnell ODon ODonnell nell the kid McCormack is not a boy boyat boyat boyat at all but a girl The fhe man with the tile 45 cents took tile the boy end of tho the argument and when Vincent appeared with the girls in inthe inthe inthe the ticket sale smilingly made his friend buy the two tickets from the young young-ste. The advance sale of tickets for the tile benefit at the Orpheum is proving a smashing success Cuddles and her little girls together with Al AI Herman lIerman the comedian sell the pasteboards pasteboards paste paste- boards to the audience the Edwards act The children wear their stage costumes and Al is decorated with a plentiful supply of burnt cork It makes a hilarious five minutes The national theatre benefit day was through the desire of the theatrical interests to do their bit for the tile American Red lied Red RedCross Cross Friday morning December 7 at 10 1045 45 o'clock was fixed as the hour at which a special performance will be given in every Orpheum theatre in the West AVest and affiliated affiliated affiliated af af- af- af South and in a a aJ of the Keith houses in the East The local show will be headed by Eddie Foy and the seven younger Foys in their latest act The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe The Foys Fays together with the entire regular Orpheum bill and possibly one or two local artists will m make mirce e up the tile special benefit morning matinee program m. m All of the performers the musicians the tile stage hands and the tho of the theatre will donate their services for the performance and the entire gross receipts for the tile show will be given to the Red Cross It is estimated that the theatres on the Orpheum circuit and their associates associates asso asso- elates have a combined seating capacIty capacity capacity capac capac- ity of a quarter of a million and if each city has the sale which the advance advance advance ad vance indicates will be the rule in Salt Lake capacity is assured in all the theatres and a tremendous sum will be realized throughout the country coun coun- try |