St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-23
DINNER A LA TRILBY.
How Some New Workers Did Hon.
ors to Du Maurier7s Novel.

Enthusiastic persons are rackng their
brains to exhibit the Trilby craze in
some new way. The latest device is
Trilby dinner. The New York World
has the following concerning it.
A clever and attractive young actress
living in New York recently receive
an invitation to impersonate at such a
dinner Du Maurier's heroine, the Latin
quarter model of Irish extraction with
the large heart and beautiful feet. L MS
was the invitation which she received:
Dear Miss D.: We have decided to
celebrate the New Year by giving
TriIby dinner, and we feel that 1t Will
add very much to the general Trllpy-
ness of the occasion if you will conde-
scend to be our Trilby. Be wise and
accept this, for you will have gay old
time. The festive Teddy will stand IN
the shoes of Taffy. the large and low
able-only his whiskers have not yet
been permitted to reach their naturally
luxuriant growth; little Jimmy will
enact the part of the Laird, his ruby
beard being, we think, thoroughly in
keeping with the character of the canny
Scot, and Baldie, the beautiful, whom
YOU will be simply charmed % meet,
will be little Billee. Ete is young and
rich, so don your prettiest, and he halls
from the city of pork and beans, so
sharpen up that sprightly wit of yours
and come prepared for conquest. We
shall expect you without fail so don t
trouble to write. Your friends and SER
wants, Taffy, the Laird, Little Billlee,
who doesn't know you, but is dying to,
and the Jerusalem Skylark."
The dinner took place on New Year S
night The Laird was the host. He is
an Englishman and a writer of farces.
His wife is the Jerusalem 'Skylark. A
fiat in the East side took the place of
the three Britons' studio in the Place
St Anatole des Arts.
Taffy was impersonated by the gentle
man spoken of as Teddy, man of i'm
posing appearance. Baldie, who was
Little Billee for this occasion, is a Bos-
ton young man Of social Importance in
his native city. No one was foung de-
sirous of appearing as SvengaIi.
The dinner did not take place until
o'clock, when everybody was hungry
and on cheerful terms with everybody
else, as at the famous Latin quarter
gathering. The menu was deliberately
suggestive of "Trilby." Each person
received copy bearing a design and all
appropriate quotation. This one was
given to the young woman who was
Trilby for the evening:
Petit Souper de Boheme la Trilby,
New Years Day, 1895.
Soupe-Queue de Boeuf la Sandy.
Pain au Naturel. Sci. Beurre de Cham
payne.
Poivre au Rouge ct Noir.
Roti-Dindon a la Litrebili, Garni de
Saucissons la Svengali
PURGE de Pommes de Terre PEldorado
Petits Pois au Taffy. Navets a la For
tunatus Club. Celeri.
Plum Pudding a la Rochemartel-Bos-
siegur.
Mface Pie Ia Hub.
Cafe. NoiX. Oranges.
Champagne. Vim de Xeres.
Bon Soir.
Flower Of the rose,
If I've been merry, what matter who
Enows?'
The descriptions of the dishes in this
menu which are not adapted from
''Trilby" had some personal appropri-
ateness to the diners.
The guests tried to be merry after the
fashion of the characters in the novel
which they admire so profoundly. In
their opinion they did so. AS Mr.. Du
Maurier is not writing this account of
their festivities it would not be wise to
give a detailed account of their proceed
ings for the purpose Of showing how