New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
DINNER TO CYRIL MAUDE
|. IS ALMOST MAUDE-LESS
English Actor, Coming from
Toronto, Long Delayed by
Accidents en- Route.
HE MISJUDGES DISTANCES
Auto Breaks Down Twice, but
Finally He Reaches Lotos Club,
Where Mr.. Dodson and
Guests Await Him.


The great distances between place and
place on the continent of North America
may have been somewhat underesti-
mated by Cyril Maude. actor manager of
the Playhouse, London. After his eX
periences of Saturday night and Sunday
! i'm getting to New York from Ottawa TO
be the guest of honor at a dinner given
by j. T.. DodsOn the actor, at the Lotos
/ club, ne has revised his conception Of
time and space. He won his race finally,
but had one Of the exciting times OF his
career in so doing.
II seemed a simple matter. with tour
ing cars and express trains at Mr..
Maude's disposal, to get from the Russell
Theatre, i'm Ottawa, after the perform
ance on Saturday night to the Lotos club
in time for dinner, but the roads Of on
tario are not so we'll adapted for motoring
as are those in the old country. The first
leg of the journey was a dash in motor
car from the stage door OF the Russell
Theatre TO Prescott, opposite Ogdcnsburg,
, Ogdensburg Mr. Maude was to take a
Lake Shore Limited.
| Mr.. Maude left the theatre in ottawa
at II rs. At midnight tire Of the motor
car burst and the machine was thrown
| into ditch, far from any town or large
village. wagon was brought from a
| farm. with which the machine was hauled
out OF the road. \ new tire was put on
and the journey was resumed. Half an
/ hour later another delay was caused by a
/ puncture. The result was that Mr.. Maude
did not reach Ogdensburg until 10 o'clock
on Sunday morning.
| The schedule was knocked out COM
! pletely. and Mr.. Maude. very weary. but
still game. called up George G. Tyler,
manager OF Liebler & Co. TO ask how to
proceed. Mr. Tyler arranged to have a
/ special train bring Mr. Maude to New
York. The train did not leave Albany
until Z 80 last night. and the diners at the
Lotos Club realized that Mr.. Maude could
| not be with them much before Ii o'clock.
! Another guest OF honor was the Right
| Hon. Robert Laird Borden, Premier Of
! Canada. Among those assembled were
W II. Crane, Charles Cherry. Walter
| Damrosch, DR.. j. f. Erdmann. Daniel
! Frohman, Ben Greet, Rupert Hughes. Lyn
! Harding, Charles Ram Kennedy. j. Hart
! ley Manners, James Metcalf, Judge w. y.
! X Alcott. Melville Stone, Charles VI
Schwab. Mortimer L. Schin. Justice Bar
tow 5. Weeks. Dr. W. w. Walker and G.
| Haddon Chambers
Mr.. Maude arrived al the Grand Central
| Terminal at 1920 O'Clock. He was me,
| by Mr. Tyler and hurried 10 the Lotos
| Club, where he arrived few minutes
after Premier Borden had finished speak
ing. The diners jumped up and cheersd
| him, and Mr.. Stone announced that the
guest would drink a drop and eat a sand
| wich before he was called on 10 speak.
/ The bumptous ride In the automobile
was humorously described by Mr. Maude
after he had been introduced by hts
friend. j. L. Dodson. the actor. Mr..
Maude spoke modestly Of his seventeen
/ years work in England and OF his as
/ piratlons TO get the valued seal Of New
/ York's approval. which he will seek to-
night at Walack's Theatre. where he
opens in The Second in Command
/ He spoke OF his early acting I'm America.
/ thirty years ago, when he played the
! part Of the servant in East Lynne" IN
Denver and went broke in San Fran
cisco, which made II necessary for him
TO return to New York in an emigrant
train.
Premier Borden spoke briefly OF the
/ feeling In Canada relative to reciprocity.
He said Canadians had no especial OBJ
lection to reciprocity, since every citizen
was purchasing from the United States
about thirty times as much as citizen
of the United States was buying from
Canada but. he said. it was the method
by which reciprocity was to be accom-
plished that was Objectionable. He said
that this country had already done its
part toward the control OF its fiscal az
, fairs tending toward the solution Of the
problem, and he was confident that the
next election in Canada would do like
wise.
Mr. Dodson said he racked his brains
TO devise some way to keep the diners
amused until Mr.. Maude arrived. First
he thought he would have a quartet
| Then he said IL wouldn't do. for it was
the cabaret that took the rest out OF
restaurant" and put the din" in din
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