The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
SIR HERBERT rs GUEST.
Eeerbohm Tree Lionized to Limit by
Chicago Society, Leads Cinderella
To Tell of Him.

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| Cinderella in the Tribune this morn
ing gives whimsical account of how
the Pennington society luxuriated in
! the sunshine Of Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Tree presence on the occasion of his
birthday, yesterday. She chatters along
in the following strain:
''Sir Herbert Trees affections turn
| ed out rather disastrously for the
treasury of the Pennington society.
You see, Sir Herbert, over the tele-
| phone, valued his affections at $500,
and said for that modest sum he would
say few kind words before the Farm
ington society.
The society thereupon proceeded to
| try to sell tickets for the event at SIS
per, which included tea drinking in
the Blackstone ballroom and the sight
of many of its fairest young members
among the Pennington graduates in
Shakespearean costume.
But, as the wiseacres have already
noted, this is year when people are
terribly independent about taking tick
cts, and while Sir Herbert is not ex-
actly twice told tale, neither is he
absolutely novelty, having spoken be-
fore the Friday Club and several bene-
fits. So his birthday party in the
| Blackstone ballroom turned out to be
rather sparsely settled function,
barely more than hundred people be-
ing present, though they were, to be
sure, among the most delightful people
in town
I'm the course of his remarks Sir
Herbert said that the hundred pounds
of currency he had exaeted from the
Pennington society had been sent to
| Lady Tree in London with other mon
eys to be divided between the British
and French Red Cross.
| Whereupon he told two amusing
anecdotes. The first was about his
London production, " Antony and Cleo
patra, - during the reign of Queen Vic
toria Two British dowagers, it seems,
were sitting in the dress circle knitting
throughout the performance, and at the
end as they rose one said to the other,
How different from the life of our
dear queen!
The other Renaissance was of Sir
Herbert's leading woman playing Cleo
patra for the first time. The producer
required her to meet Mark Antony
when he returned from Rome standing
on flight Of steps with his five chill
dren. But Cleopatra wouldn It, she
simply wouldn t. Finally she agreed
to meet the conqueror with three chill
dren, but never with five. Life is full
of compromises, remarked Sir Herbert.
when the English actor IS birthday
cake was brought in and the room
T darkened there was much ado. The
cake was wonderful one, looking ex-
actly like st. Paul IS Cathedral-~and as
for candles, my hat! So many of them
| it might have been Shakespe are 3
birthday.
Iris Tree s very nice looking girl,
tall and thin, with taffy colored hair
| bobbed ever so quantity round her ears.
She is marrying an American, it seems,
and so will no longer be of the "soul"
set in London, with the Asquiths, the
Rutlands, the Cunards, etc.
"Well, here's hoping the Pennington
women paid expenses and that the pro-
Germans among the Englishman s au-
dience did not suffer.
"And by the way, the number of
pro-Germans working for the allied ba-
zaar is said to be notably large and
enthusiastic. -