Lambs' Annual Spring Gambol

They Frisk on Fifth Avenue Theatre Green for the Long Green.

BIG FINANCIAL SUCCESS

Everyone Who Is Anyone in Social, Literary and Dramatic World Was Present.

There were sounds of revelry by day at the Fifth Avenue Theatre yesterday afternoon when the Lambs gamboled on Manager Knowles' green, to the delight of an audience which augmented the long green in the treasury of their fold to the tune of some four thousand dollars. The annual "Gambol" of the Lambs is a recognized feature of the Spring amusement season, and it is a matter of course that it shall be the most brilliant show of the season, and it is the general opinion that yesterday's entertainment was the most successful, both as to the cleverness of the skits produced and the brightness with which they were presented, ever given. The programme opened with a burlesque on "Zaza," which fairly convulsed the audience, and was appreciated by no one more than by Mrs. Carter, who viewed Mr. Toland's travesty of herself from the manager's box. Individual hits were made by each member of the cast, which was as follows:

"BIZAZA,"

A Travesty in Three (3) Scenes.
Adapted from the adaptation from the French of Lamb David Belasco by Lamb W. H. Post.

CAST.

Bernard Dufrene ............ Lamb Geo. F. Nash
Cascart ........................ Lamb Mark Smith
Riggault ....................... Lamb Edwin Holt
Song — "Boy and Girl" ......... Lamb Morgan Coman
Natalie ........................ Lamb Albert Bruning
Aunt Rosa .................... Lamb William Norris
Bizaza ......................... Lamb Hugo Toland

("By permission of and arrangement with.")

Scene I. — Interior of the Little House in the Woods.

Dark change to
Scene II. — Interior of the Little House in the Woods.

Note. — During dark change Bizaza goes to Paris and has interview with Mme. Dufrene and Mlle. Toto, but does not by word, thought, look or deed give the snap away.

Scene III. — Exterior of Bizaza's Barouche.

Note. — Curtain will be dropped for a very brief interval between Scenes II. and III. to afford Bizaza an opportunity to change her code of morals and get her moonlight parasol.

This was followed by an Ethiopian interlude, entitled "Yesterday," in which, as the curtain rose to rag-time music, conducted by Lamb Jessie Williams. Lambs Jeff de Angelis, Walter Jones, George Marion, Charles Jackson, Van Rensselaer Wheeler, A. B. Sloane, Louis Payne and William Norris, gotten up as ante-bellum negroes, were "discovered" taking a moonlight nap on a plantation levee. Of course they broke at once into song and dance. Their turn ended with a warmly encored final of acrobatic dancing, which was by all odds the best exhibition of ensemble work ever seen in New York.

"House of the Lonely Usher,"

"The House of the Lonely Usher" followed with the following cast:

Horsecart Harlemstein........ Lamb Digby Bell
Alan Dale..................... Lamb Lewis Baker
Henry Meltzer................. Lamb Richard Bennett
E. A. Dithmar................. Lamb H. A. Cripps
Jessie Wood................... Lamb F. Newton Lindo

New York Dramatic Critics.

May Irwin (?)................ Lamb Samuel Edwards
De Wolf Hopper.................. By Himself
Joseph Holland.................. Also by Himself.

In this skit Digby Bell Harlemstein declared that he proposed to open the theatre he has built since breakfast, with a new play, which should give prominent but misunderstood actors opportunity to set themselves right before the public.

The gem of the performance was "Hula-Lula," a territorial opera by Victor Herbert, with lyrics by L. J. B. Lincoln, with the following cast:

Hula-Lula..................... Lamb M. Gordon
Susan Brainerd................ Lamb Robert Burnside
Rear Admiral Bounce........... Lamb Mark Smith
Lieut. Coudent, U. S. N....... Lamb Louis Cassavant
Bos'n Wood.................... Lamb Chas. Hopper
Lilly O'Killarney............... Lamb Saml. Edwards Hullo-Ha...................... Lamb A. B. Sloane Molly Hickey Wow.............. Lamb Eugene Jepson

Hit of the Afternoon.

Possibly the hit of the entertainment was the song by Hopper, Digby Bell, May Irwin, Edwards and Joseph Holland, "You think you've made a hit, but wait until you see the papers Tuesday." This was accompanied by an anvil chorus of hammers and tongs by Jessie Wood, Alan Dale, Henry Meltzer and E. A. Dithmar. Miss Woods' artless confession in the same skit, "I love Shakespeare because he is the only artist who draws worse than I do," was well received.

Every number on the programme bristled with witty hits that were instantly taken up by the audience, which was an exceedingly brilliant one and included most of the men and women prominent in the social, literary and artistic world.

Among others present were noted Mrs. Leslie Carter, Mrs. James Elverson, Miss Maude Adams, Mrs. Hackett, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Miss Cora Tanner, Mr. W. Bourke Cochran, Reginald De Koven, Mrs. W. C. Richardson, Mr. Frederick Gebhard, Mr. Augustus Thomas, Miss Laura Burt, Miss Marcia Von Dresser, Mrs. John Gilbert, Miss Jessie Millward, Miss Hilda Clarige, Nikola Tesla, Arthur Wallack, Miss Norma Whalley and Miss Maude Willis.