New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-24
FR|ARS HAIL HOPPER,
HUSBAND OF COUNTRY
RennoId Wolf Suggests That
Madison Square Garden Is
Needed for Mrs. Hopper.
CASEY AT BAT" MISSING
Long Comedian in Role Of Guest
of Honor Leaves Bulk of
Funmaking to Fellow
Speakers.

Speakers.
ne Wolf Hopper. comedian and member
# the Triars club. was toasted. roasted
and otherwise honored by his fellow
members last night at the Hotel Aston
vrben the Friars held complimentary
dinner I'm his honor. William Collier and
william Courtleigh. az actors Rennold
Wolf. representing the dramatic critics;
patrick Francis Murphy and cambridge
colhv for the business men Of New York
md Sheriff Julius Hamburger. for the Gle
,pents Of law and order. united I'm the
eulogies which were paid TO Mr.. Hopper
After the dinner talks. which we've
listened 70 by some five hundred Iriars
ard invited guests. including women,
who occupied the boxes surrounding thu
ballroom of the hotel. a cabaret pro-
r-amme was given. Among those who
sppeared in q minstrel first part AMI
individual numbers were Mr. Hopper,
Carter de Haven. Belle Story. Mike Ber-
nard. William Collier and Buster Coz
uer. Harry Bulger. Richard earle. Tom
Lewis Robert /. Daley and Jack Glen
son.
To Rennold Wolf was given the task
Of appearing as personal press repre-
sentative for Mr.. Hopper after John W.
Rumsey. Friar Abbot Of the club. had
made a few preliminary remarks.
"Joshed" on His Weddings.
The many matrimonial misadventures Of
the guest Of honor were the chief burden
NJ Mr.. VOLTS introduction.
"If George Washington is the father
Of his country" Mr. Wolf declared. Mr..
Hopper is her husband In arranging for
this dinner the one regret Of the commit
zee Of arrangements was that it was un-
able TO secure Madison Square Garden. so
that Mrs. Hopper might have been pres
ent.
1T is fairly safe If you meet woman
whose face Is familiar yet whom you can
not recall for YOU 70 address her as Mrs.
Hopper She either has been or will be-
The guest Of honor, characterized by
the POSTMASTER as pre-eminent among
asht opera comedians upon the American
stage received an enthusiastic reception
upon his introduction.
y have been travelling throughout the
country. from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc coast" Mr. Hopper said. "and from
the Gulf to Canada. There has been much
10 interest upon the trip. from the hard
as-rock bed springs which give the
name TO Rock Springs, Wyo- to the
warmth Of the reception which marks
the people Of the West. But it all pals
before the warmth OF the friendship OF
New York and the nnonesS OF that spirit
which makes the stage the temple OF fine
IDEAS which il is to-day. There is now
upon the boards here an excellence Of
thought and production which lends
lustrc to the institution whose house the
theatre IS"
In spite Of repeated cries and applause
at the conclusion of his brief remarks
Mr Hopper refused TO recitc casey att
tho Bat"
The serious tone Of Mr.. Hoppers talk
furnished William Collier with an oppor-
iunity for further compliment TO the guest
o. honor. During the course OF his re-
marks. ne said:
The simplest utterance Of Mr. Hopper
is 10 my most rhetorical rhapsody as the
Day Of Pentecost compared with silence
and fun. Their equipment Of sonorous pc
RODS and fluent command Of sesquipedal-
ian vorbiage would make Roget's The
saurls itself a melancholy mass Of mono
syllable ineptitude.
"Cacophonic as the meandoring muir
muir Of my words must sound beside the
cataclysmic cascade OF winged metaphor
that leaps ebullient from the Hopperian
lips; deeply as / realize the paucity Of my
prose compared with the lyric grandeur
Of the subject: unstable and ill-equipped
as are my articulatory organs 10 the
Brobdingnagian task with the full force
Of thorax. pharynx. larynx and all kinds
Of music. yet ] do wish 10 say 10 Mr..
Hopper. God bless you"
Further amusement al Mr.. Hopper
expense was had by William Courtleigh.
Who declared his coming appearance I'm
the production Of Sardou's "DivorcOns'
was responsible for his presence among
the list Of after-dnner speakers. and Pat
rick Francis Murphy, who characterized
tour by Mr. Hopper as a continual
roaming through the United States Of
matrimory"
in connection with Mr. Hopper's stage
associations. Mr.. Murphy took occasion
He said.
Most every one thinks he can write
play tO-day-and nearly every one can.
But nowadays a comedy, 10 be successful,
Hust be as broad as II is long. TINS IS
the day Of the renaissance OF the
Povies. day when the only thing that
public will take seriously is "el-Dred
nonsense"
cambridge Colby and Sheriff Harbur-
ger were others who paid their compl-
ments 10 the achievements Of the guest
" honor as comedian.
In addition TO the list OF speakers there
We're seated at the guest table Low
Fields Joseph r. Grismcr Mare klaW,
Judge Warren w. Foster and Joseph
Weber.
NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK.