The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-05

is PUNCHED K K
George CORVALLIS West, Says the Actress, Must Occupy
His Mind-Polyglot Group at a Rehearsal
Grating Actors for Shipment.

All hands must step UP respectfully
from this time on when they OFFER
punched. or gratis. tickets upon attend
ms Mrs. Pat ~Campbell's perfo. ances OF
"Pygmalion." The ticket tsker is none
other than George Cornwallis-West, eI-
husband OF Lady Randolph. Churchill.
And the ~"Pygmallon" troupe's punched
ticket taker is also a brother Of the wife
OF Westminster. second Duke OF Ger.
ls47), Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor /:
y. of Victor Alexander, Earl Grosvenor
and Lady She'll Mary Lumley, and. NJ.
Constance Edwins. " d. Of w. C.. Corn
wallis West" as Who's Who has 1t In
part.
There's a lot more about the family
in the well known fat. rcd volume. but
the main item under consideration at
the is that young George Corn
wallis-W"s;. who In his own right not
only has had the distinction OF being
the eN-husband OF Lady Randolph
Churchill and is the present husband
of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, also just now
has 4 job with the troupe pls, ing "Fyg-
malion." 10y George Bernard shaw. the
Georgie Conan Of Dublin and London.
This week and for two weeks past the
distinguished e~x-husband of the mother
W the present First Lord of the British
Admiralty has been on the door at the
Broad street Theatre. Philadelphia.
where Ms company manager OF The
Show shop" he has been paying Off sal
aries. counting the house and watching
the punched tickets offered when not
otherwise engaged.
Company Manager Cornwallis-West
came to America some time after the
European war began and reported in
Chicago. In that city his first engage
ment began when he went to the front
OF the house.
80 your husband is now officially
connected witt YOU company" some
one recently asked Mrs. Campbell.
oh. yes replied Mrs. Campbell,
George absolutely must ave something
TO keep his mind occupied"
In the various cities IN which Mrs.
Campbell has appeared her husband has
been extensively interviewed for publica-
ton about the war, but all the inter-
viewers have overlooked his CLASSY class
distinctions. He firmly believes Eng
land will win. Only one other item need
he known TO prove how classy IL the
"Pygmaliou" troupe from the front az
Well as back stage. the man on the
door before George Cornwauis-West got
the job was nOne other than Denis
Micaii. a nephew OF the eminent Burne-
Jones.
This war taik reminds one hat at the
dress rehearsal OF the Trent!ni-Clifton
Crawford production OF The Peasant
,iirl" at the r'orty-fou.tn street Theatre
N" night before last one group of the
i"w who witnessed the rehearsal. all In
he same party, consisted % tho German
Max Rhelnhardt's assistant. Prof. .>d-
guski. who il a Pole Morris Ges,. q
Russian: Composer Rudolph F'riirl. a
Bohemian L!brettist Adolrh Jacoby. a
Hungarian; the composer Of Winter
Garden music. Sigmund Romberg. who
l. an Austrian; Ballet Director Theodore
kosloft. a Russian, and the host of the
party. Herb Roth. who speaks the native
tongue Of Park Row and broadway.
Hand in hand. iguratively speaking
Russian and Austrian, Pole and Rus
sian and American. Hungarian and 30
hem!an in the party, all OF whom Ina,
seer The Peasant Girl az "Polenblut
in Vienna. sat through the dress re
hearsal happily with never n talk o
wa while Trentini sang and old eli
Craford quipped his quips. But one
during an intermission somebody al
most started something ~thoughtlesslS
by bringing Up war matters.
Instantly everybody ins,inctively wen
back to first principles lingually. "F"gi
it," cried young Mr.. Roth in his nativ'
tongue. And down the aisle rushed MI
Aage TOKEN Worm, Via Copenhagen, am
quoted everybody with a rapid now o