Show 1 I Actors Actors Plan Spectacular I I I Welcome for Mr Taft r aft President Taft In itt coming to Now N York to open Oln tho Actors fund Cund fair fall on May lIar Oth th will bestow a distinction upon lIon the th American stage that It II has hns never nc r before attained It will he the Else first time that the chief f magistrate of a nation will wll leave learo his I executive duties dutteR to gi give ho o the theater Ih official recognition Tho The directors of o the fair fall have hae planned to give him the most spectacular welcome over ever er ac nc accorded accorded corded to a president The Tho spacious Sc Regiment armory at the expense of thousands of dollars will willbe willbe willbe be transformed into a scene of DC the garden gardon of Versailles s Within a hedge of trees will be bo built white w pergolas overhung with luxurious us vines and ex exquisitely colored col rd d flowers In the midst of this profusion of flowers anti and green greenwill gl greenwill en will rise a snow white court of oi honor honorof of Doric design where whre President Taft will bo be received In front of oC It Jl will splash an nn electric fountain fonn As s ho comes into the hall hail and walks up tho tim richly carpeted steps to the court of honor twelve show and chorus girls I of the tue rarest beauty will strew arm armful fills ful of o II before below him himIn himin I In planning this the directors have havo revived a custom of one hundred years ago In day the president visited a t lIly illy the thc th pret pret I Bt si a dozen miles came In Ia w ami I scattered S flowers before him and ond his escort Actresses Him After President Taft has ban entered C the tho court of oC honor he hI will be greeted r hv by twelve of the most representative I actresses in America who havo ha lIen boon fc chosen for their charm and talent tal nt by bythe b bythe the forty leading playwrights pla and andi i critics of the country countr Assisting this thiB i of oC actresses will bo be b a n fr of the most prominent 1 society women of ot tho tim city under tinder un lieI the chair chairmanship chairmanship manship of Mrs Irs lames lamos t cr Com Coni Commemorating Comm m the Uie event ent Chester Chestor Beach probably tilt the youngest young st sculptor in America has designed a gold medal to tobe tobe be bC presented to President Taft For I or the tho first Onn time lime managerial dif dlf differences hove have hn e been heen laid halt aside and ami syn syndicates tn syndicates and Independents have han Jollied joined hands In this bazaar for the relief of or orthe the tho sick and unemployed ed in the pro 1110 profession The Tho support of or tho tim fair fall is confined to 10 no one section Practical Practically Jj ly every even 1 well wen known pay pl house In Inthe Inthe inthe the south west vest and east Cost has an anI announced I a special benefit perform performance ance during the tho week weck of the tho fair Take Part ParL Over stage sLigo folk actors act chorus girls artists I and ond even en circus People 1 are arC actively assisting the work worl of the HIP th fair air They Thoy will constitute the greatest assent assem assemblage blage bl e of the theatrical profession that has han ever er boon been gathered The Th Players the Lambs the lh Friars the th I Century Theater club duh tho the Professional omens the Night club cluth the he Actors society anti and andall all au of the prominent dramatic organ organ throughout the country have hare taken Liken booths l and are ape endeavoring to each other In their exhibits A I score of stage beauties will ill have han charge charse of oC the racing wheel whose tin gee goes gees will run night and day d to swell the fund group of actresses dressed In costumes of a dozen different nations will tea in the dainty tea len room At the tho doll house society women TOmen and act actresses actresses will auction off dolls which they ther themselves have hao dressed In all there thore will be sixty or more booths Over 1000 of the most most charming wom wont women women en on nn the th American stage stase will III forsake the footlights 1 ts during tho the week of the fair Calr to tobo tobe bo mere salesladies The Thc Art Exhibit The art Mt exhibit will be bd the most mott complete collection of plantings drawings nud naul etchings of the th stage I and stage folk foIl over ever gathered g together at nt a singe exhibit Under tindel the tue chair chairmanship manship of John W V r Alexander president dent dont of the American Academy o of I tile the art committee has has oh ob obtained I the loan of jIO the rarest Pictures IR ll rate Collections fj the city v 7 71 Giving r variety rl lr to the display will he reproductions of 01 rooms of houses hOlse famous in iii the history of tho the stage i among thorn house In those these valuable relics and mementos I will be he auctioned off orr by hr hearing leannE achorS ac actors a alors horS tors The aged ased ue tR of the Actors I home hitte in Staton Staten Island IRland which is sup slip parted by the th fund are mo producing a special exhibit to be e displayed ed In a booth the exact reproduction of their living hiving room loom at tho the home |