The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-07
GENERAL BUTLER
FETES MNOSHAN
Miss Lillian Gottlieb Was a
Guest At a Garden-P arty
Given AT a Famous
French Villa.
OTHER HONORs FOR SERVICE
Telegram From welfare oficial Carries
High Praise for Kenosha Con-
tralto who Is Now En- Route
70 the United States.

tion from high officials Of the Jewish
Welfare Board, and q garden-party
among the pebbled paths around Cen
eral Buffers French villa-these are
some Of the compensations for patriotic
service which have come to Miss t.
liam Gottlieb, the daughter Of Mr.. 1d
Mrs. Simon Gottlieb Of 732 Prairie
avenue, who has been singing for
wounded soldiers in the chateaus bor-
dering Brest and Paris.
In compliance with an American
army order, requiring that all welfare
workers be out of France by August 1st
Miss Gottlieb and her colleagues sail
ed from French port on July 28th,
and are now en- route to New York and
Kenosha.
The young contralto considers the
garden party given by the Buffers the
greatest Of her great adventures !" out
there. In letter to her sister, Miss
Gladys Gottheb, she characterizes the
function as 1the most beautiful of all
the beautiful affairs have attended in
France. The communication continues
with q more detailed report of the par
ty. It reads in part as follows:
lit is about seven mile drive from
Brest to the villa. The garden is on
a high hill facing the ocean. AS good
luck would have it 1t was an ideal
night with perfect full moon. High
up in the trees were hundreds of many
colored electric lanterns The peonies,
roses, and other blossoms, were all in
bloom apparently just for the party.
there were also long meandering lanes,
where the guests might lose themselves
in the shadow when they were tired Of
the bright lights and the glamor of the
crowd.
For those who did not care to dance
there was an open-air theatre with
movies, an orchestra, and a soprano
who appeared in the garb Of a Briton
peasant and sang several operate arias.
For those who did wish to "trip the
light fantastic there was large plat
form with waxed floor and everything
else to make it alluring. The music was
furnished by big jazz band. French
military officials and French civilians
from the highest society In Brest were
all there in full uniform or full dress.
To be sure there were plenty OF Ameri-
cans, too. so that / didn Il feel. at all
out Of place with my English speech
and my Yankee ways
Shortly before the garden party at
General Buffers villa, Miss Gottlieb
went up to Paris. While in the world
metropolis she sang at several of its
military hospitals and was everywhere
received with enthusiasm. AS memen-
to Of the experience she recently sent
her parents a kodak picture Of herself
taken as she stood beneath one of the
arches of the famous Eifel Tower.
Following her work at Paris the Ke-
nosha patriotess was placed in charge
of the welfare work iii Chateau lust
out Of Brest
Way back in 1906, when she was still
"a student in the grammar grades Of
the local schools Miss Gottlieb won
medal offered by the Chicago Daily
News for an essay on American Pa
triotism, That she has lived some Of
the principles expressed IN her prize
thesis is evidenced by the following
telegram recently sent to Mrs. Gotleib
by A. ]. Braunstein, high official Of
the Jewish Welfare Board:
~ saw your daughter, Lillian, at
Brest. She is the life of the place. she
is happy in her work because she IS
making other people happy. It was
pleasure to know her. She reflects
credit on her country, her city, and her
family. She should cultivate her voice;
it has great possibilities. =
The telegram came from New Lon
don, Connecticut, whsre Mr., Braustein
spent some time following his return
to the United States.
Still further proof of Miss GottIieb q
success in France is to be seen in
story involving shimmering hand Lem
broidered scarf. After the young con-
tralto had contributed several numbers
ito a program at the hospital in Brest,
she was approached by the mother Of a
French officer. The q dear little old
lady eonlplimented her very highly
and as an added expression of her ap-
probation gave lSr handsome lace
scarf, which she Immediately forwarded
ito her mother in Kenosha.
UnAn bar arrival 10 the StatAs Miss