OCR Text |
Show NOTED PLAYERS RAISE $15,500 For Son Francisco Sufferers Suf-ferers in Chicago Benefit Bene-fit Performance, v CHICAGO. April 27. Fifteen thousand five 'hundred dollars was raised for the relief of suffering San Francisco at the benefit performance held under the Bernhardt Bern-hardt tent ,on the lake front opposite the Auditorium hotel yesterday. The tent was packed from noon until evening. Twenty-five thousand would be a conservative conser-vative estimate of the number of people who visited the scene of festivities in the name of charity. Among the performers were E. H. Bothern, Julia Marlowe, E. S. Wlllard and their companies; Mrs. Leslie Carter. Richard Carle, Robert Loratne and companf, ' the "Mexlcana" company, the "Before and After" company and representatives repre-sentatives of almost every other theatrical theatri-cal entertainment now playing In this city. |