The San Francisco call., 1909-02-22
PHIPPS FELT HURT.
BUT IT'S ALL OVER
One UnpIeasantness Marred the
Merry Kirmess Period
for a While
tarantelIa Dancers Say Mistake
Z Was Made, but Husband
Was Not Expected


-. The dsrkling, the butterfly bride.
The delicate dancer, chiquita-
e II you can but dance at her side.
To frolio's and fashions gay table
She fies mid the flowers, and she sings
~ You d sing with her tOO-were you able;
You'd Ay-if you had but the wings
:. :-lronbadour Lays ltrsnslated from SPANISH
=: There was no chair for Horton For
.-est Phipps-neither chair nor plate nor
knife nor fork. And out of that lack
sprung The one unpleasantness of the
.snerry kirmess period. the one brief
tempest in the o-phiiapthropic tea
: Dot. Mr- Phipps made most Of the thun-
der and lightning Of the tempest. and
5saen he subsided ana the show went on.
Mr. PhiDps has a lovely wife. and
sometimes he has an unIovely disposi-
.SaoR- Mrs. Phipps was easily queen of
CHE kirmess-the star Of the show-bv
she perfection OF her dancing, her 1.-THE
grace and her beauty-a star with
+ rwinlding toes.
Mrs. Phipps was a Tarantella. Also
she was a Portola-with the acute ac-
cent on the "a" please Between the
matinee Saturday and the fnaI per-
~.tormanee the young people of these and
:ether dances made up dinner parties at
the st. Francis. wearing their costumes
20 table for lack Of time TO change
= The Tarantellas wanted Mrs Phipps
70 shine at their table. So did the
:I7ortOlas. the men Of which were dining
the girls and the two chaperons and no
~s-r1 -.-T--
fepted the POrtOla invitation and a
':rhotor was sent TO carry her to the
,5lotel- il also carried Horton Forrest
.Phipps. When they reached the PortOla
Ia bic Mrs. Phipps was in her bewitching
:Tarantella costume and Mr.. Phipps in
bis every evening clothes.
HUSBAND NOT EXPECTED
= Amid the meetings Of the Spanish
clad men and maids Mrs PhiDps took
her seat Just then-alas. and alack,-
= i painfully appeared that no cover had
been laid FOR ar. Phipps- His wife
arose and was Withdrawing with him
when the chaperons. Mrs. Joseph King
and Mrs. {. O. Alexander. and some
: of the Spanish dancers tried to set
matters straight. They had not eX-
=, .pecred Nr. Phipps. but he was welcome,
of course. 1t would take only a
minute TO lay another cover for him.
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in his role OF a courteous tempest in
- trousers to be stayed with words or
cOmfOrted with smiles. BE kept on
- Withdrawing AS a good wife might
.se expected to Go, Mrs Phipps kept
with him.
At this unpleasant juncture a pretty
-Iarantella stepped IN and restored the
superficial harmonies with an invita-
tiOn 10 the Italian table, which Mr.. and
Mrs. Phipps accepted. Then the gay
. costume dancers went on. The tempest
seemed TO have lost itself in a gale
D. OF fun
: But the harmony was only superficial
. AIr. Phipps was as tempestuous as ever
finsi6e. The happy Portolas had no idea Of
the calamity that was brewing for them
. until, near the end Of the intermission
in the evening program and only a
few minutes before their turn" they
saw from the wings that Mrs Phipps
was seated among the spectators and
Oh. hOrrors!-stiu in her Tarantella
costume.
Il was a breathless and frantic cut
ting out party that made sortie from
behind the scenes and essayed TO take
= Mrs. Phipps back TO the dressing room
and save the Spanish dance, which.
lacking her. would have been a fat and
drear failure.
PLEAS OVERCOME TEMPEST
= has developed a frightfuI ache in his
charming Wife's head. He could not
possibly allow her TO risk her health
by dancing another step. Besides her
nerves were almost at the breaking
point from fatigue and so on. Portola
. chaperons and Portola dancers, rein
z forced and seconded by members Of
: 2Ir Phipps' family, begged and i'm
plored. Mr.. Phipps was firm. Then
more pleading and more imploring; IL
not for the sake Of the Portolas. then
for the good Of the kirmess-do. please
Afr. Phipps. say that she may dance;
won't you, Mr.. Phipps?
3 OF course, Mr.. Phipps relented. What
mere man could hold out against such
-pressure2 Moreover, he had been a tenn
pest quite awhile. Mrs. Phipps darted
il the dressing rooms. made a lightning
change with not a minute 10 spare, and
zhen headache, nerves and all, scored
her biggest hit Of the l1irmess in the
exquisitely dainty solo dance OF the
.PQrtoIa number
40 SLIGHT INTENDED
:: But ali KirmessviIle Is still talking
aboat the grave and serious affair
Here is the Portola version Of it: "Of
= course we did not intsnd to slight Mr..
Phipps. Many Of us--especially the
1nen-did not know hsm at all. Many
Of us didn't know he gas about Mrs.
.Pbipps-she's just as charming as she
~Gan be-had always lisen attended be-
hind the scenes by a maid. When
: Mr. Phipps cane TO our table at the St
.37rancis we began making a place for
> iiim right away, but he would not re-
main.
But why did he try 10 have Mrs.
.11hipps withdraw from the dance and
B: never Jet any OF US know about il? It
= was only by chance that we found he
:+df6u't intend 10 let her appear with
as. Suppose we had gone on and she
had not been on hand2 Why, it's ter
~rfble 20 think about il even now when
It's All over Thank goodness. Mr..
p: Phipps did not stay angry. Oh yes;
and there were no outsiders at the
ainner-not a relative or a friend Of
. anvbody-just the dancers and the two
'chaperons."
ANGRY. But IT'S ALL OVER
And The Phipps version runs like
this:
Mr.. Phipps was quite properly angry
and hurt His wife was very much
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