part were people who were habitual race-goers, as well as many
racing men who had come to town for the Suburban. By these, as well
as by many others who for three days had seen innumerable pictures
of him, Carter was instantly recognized. To the audience and to the
performers the man who always won was of far greater interest than
what for the three-hundredth night was going forward on the stage.
And when the leading woman, Blanche Winter, asked the comedian
which he would rather be, "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte
Carlo or the Man Who Can Not Lose?" she gained from the audience an
easy laugh and from the chorus an excited giggle.

When, at the end of the act, Carter went into the lobby to smoke,
he was so quickly surrounded that he sought refuge on Broadway.
From there, the crowd still following him, he was driven back into
his box. Meanwhile, the interest shown in him had not been lost
upon the press agent of the theatre, and he at once telephoned to
the newspaper offices that Plunger Carter, the book-maker breaker,
was at that theatre, and if that the newspapers wanted a chance to
interview him on the probable out-come of the classic handicap to
be run on the morrow, he, the press agent, would unselfishly assist
them. In answer to these hurry calls, reporters of the Ten o'Clock
Club assembled in the foyer. How far what later followed was due to
their presence and to the efforts of the press agent only that
gentleman can tell. It was in the second act that Miss Blanche
Winter sang her topical song. In it she advised the audience when
anxious to settle any question of personal or national interest to
"Put it up to the Man in the Moon.'" This night she introduced a
verse in which she told of her desire to know which horse on the
morrow would win the Suburban, and, in the chorus, expressed her
determination to "Put it up to the Man in the Moon."