The Washington times., 1917-03-08
RECEPTION GIVEN
SIR HERBERT TREE
Shakespearean Actor Enter
tainede by Admirers at
Colonial School.

A reception was rendered Sir Her
bert by the local branch Of the
Shakespeare Society at the Colonial
School, Eighteenth and Q streets,
Tuesday afternoon.
The presentations were made by
the Rev. George Buckler, the presi-
dent of the national society, assisted
by Mrs. Eleanore Newton Buckler,
head of the dramatic department.
Those also in the receiving line We're:
Miss Charlotte c. Everett, principal
of the Colonial School; Mrs. Samuel
Burleigh Milton, director of music;
Mrs. James A. Reed, wife of Senator
Reed, of Missouri; MrR A. J. Gronna,
wife of Senator Gronna, of North Da-
kota: Mrs. James Young, wife of Con-
gressman Young of Texas; Mrs. Ed
ward T. Taylor, wife OF Congressman
Taylor of Colorado; Mrs. Joseph J..
Russell, wife OF Congressman Russell
of Missouri: Mrs. Charles H. Dillon,
wife of Congressman Dillon Of South
Dakota; Mrs. Charles w. Kennedy.
wife of Colonel Kennedy, U. s. A.;
Mrs. Philip F. Harvey. wife of Colonel
Harvey, U. S. A; Mrs. Henry Elliott
Mott, of New York and Virginia, and
Mrs. Archibanld Oracle.
A musical feature of the function
was Mrs. Millions rendition of the old
ballad ben Bolt" which called forth
personal commendation from Sir Her
bert himself.
Appreciates sOcIety's Work.
Responding TO a happy introduction
by DR.. Buckler, Sir Herbert referred
most pleasantly to his visit to Wash
ington and testified to his keen ap-
probation of the work being carried
on by the Shakespeare Society OF
America, OF which he and Lady Tree
are honorary life members, in broad
ening the knowledge of Shakespeare's
works and securing to posterity the
true conceptions of his great charac-
ters. He said that he himself owed
a great deal to Shakespeare, because
upon more than one occasion his
Shakespearean productions had liter
ally saved him from bankruptcy. In
differentiating between wit and
humor, he showed his remarkable
genius and versatility. He gave the
Falstaff speech on honor in the vein
Of Hamlet, and read the great So
liloquy of Hamlet in the mood and
with the stage business of FaIstaff.
Sir Herbert referred to the inter
national situation of the hour, and
made sn eloquent plea for peace. He
said: 81 wish that Shakespeare were
alive now to tell us with a speech of
Tire of the absolute futility OF war
What We want is a more pronounced
art to give us courage and to keep up
our high ideals. We must educate the
children of today, not in sweeping
from their toy boards the paper sold
iers representing foreign peoples as
foes, thereby instIIling in their minds
the germs of hatred and destruction,
but rather In educating their hearts
as well as their minds in human
brotherhood and love for all mankind.
And 1t IL those who most hate war
that are determined that peace, a
lasting peace, shall be assured; SO
that out of this very termoil univer-
sal, everlasting peace may yet ar
rive"
Expresses Peace Hope.
DR.. Buckler, who is the founder OF
the International Shakespeare Society,
as well as president OF the Shakes
peare Society OF America, referred to
the fact that Sir Herbert Tree had
accepted the honorary presidency of
the International Society, which. as
DR.. Buckler said, should most appro
priately be presided over by an Eng
lishman." The first biennial conven-
tion of the International Shakespeare
Society is scheduled for the week of
April %, 1918, at London, England,
and already plans are being formula
ted for that occasion. DR.. Buckler
said that his hope and prayer was
that in some way the conventions Of
the International Shakespeare Society
might be one of the potent factors in
binding up the wounds of war after
the present struggle is over. He
hoped that in an international way
the mutual love of the great poet and
dramatist who wrote for all time and
for all humanity might somehow
prove to be the tie that binds"
Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Glasgow, the Washington host
and hostess OF Sir Herbert: Mrs. Por-
ter J. McCumber, wife of Senator Nc
of North Dakota; Mrs. John
Burke, Mrs. Mccormick, Mrs. Eliza
beth Yonge TregO, Mrs. Edward
Elden, OF Baltimore: Miss
Jean Wilson, Mrs. Orth William
Shaw, Miss s. H. b. Mason. Mrs. J.
Stewart Bowen. Mr.. and Mrs. Roy