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Show THE SALT LAKE TBIBUNEf SUNDAY MOBNING; JUNE 10, 1923. Whence li tie Minister rokeUp Mayfairs llotiefl: How They Invite. You to "BottU Partial" in Modern London. :1 A " V A Sad, Sleepless; Night for Staid Sir James Barrie While the Peter Pans in Pajamas. Made Merry Whoopee" in y nei r re save Flat Below A (.'' U$ ;,r . tM' elk ci MELANCHOLY. Portrait of the Eminent r Dramatist, Sir James M. Barrie, by the Famous Artist, G. C. Bereford, Featuring the Mournful Look Him Such on Which Characterises Occasions as the Tennants' Party. d guest left the Tennajits, pronouncing it a delightful evening, night and morning. g The Tennants -- voted . their a huge success. Only those young Londoners who had not been invited or who bad failed to crash in dubious as and Sir James Barrie-7-we- re to the daintiness of the affair. Mrs. Tennant was so "leased that she informed inquiring reporters that it had been pajama-cla- , I House-warmin- I v ""'-- ' '..i . JvV cess. "There were bottles everywhere," said this impish slip of a a bride. parties ought to be the vogue in It weather like the present. was a strange scene, saying goodbye to guests and seeing them step from the house into cars, the women with pajama legs peeping from beneath their evening wraps and e men with opera ' bats and with their jamas showing be- ow their overcoats." ' 1 Mrs. Tennant had nothing to say about the protest of Sir James. One' doesn't speak of one's neighin bors England. However, there is a rumor that Sir James has taken a vow never to write a play for Mrs. Tennant. The chatter about the party goes on, and young London is preparing for another, and perhaps, a series of "pajama-an- d - bottle" parties. And, some of the more daring are wondering if they can't conceive something "more unique." The older heads in i 4 London society are shaking, however, and wondering what the younger generation Is coming to. Of course, they realize that young David Tennant and his bride have always been "different" and haven't laid too much store by the conventional means of en"Bottle-and-pajam- INTERRUPTION. "Sir Jame ent word to the Tennants by hit d awfully respectable, butler that it would give him great pleasure if his young neighbors would bid their guests goodnight." Sir James has never given an interview in hi3 life and he is not to quoted even on this occasion, but one can picture h i m writhing in his own placid pajamas as the pajama clad s' merrymaker below. Perdanced haps, Sir James lay contemslsepless, plating life in Adeland phi xTerrace night-cappe- first, But as each guest arrived the champagne had accumulated more, and hjore little pals. Most of the bottles contained whiskey, gin or beer, although a fev waggish fellows brought bottles of halt tonic, Thames water and even milk. However, when the 250 omore guests had arrived with their bottle, there was at Dull plenty of ammunition to fire, xefresh-ment Care, for 250 or more bottles of go a long way towardxmuch ' : - r . FRISKY HOSTESS. The Hon. Mrs. David Tennant (Formerly Hermione Baddeley. thai Aetr). Who "Threw" the Unique Fete Which Care Sir James Insomnia. t KL. ; i ' ."..Nfc haberdasher ran should be worn. convince one fortunately London was enjoying an, early Spring and none of the guests froze, but this was due entirely to the warmth of the stimulants, and not at all to t.ne warmth of their costumes or the weather. The pajamas were a colorful sight, and some of their occupants were even more pleasing to the eye, but to a real Londoner on a party tnere is nothing more sideboard. pleasing than a The two rases of champagne con tributed by the Tennants looked a bit lonesome at whoopee-makin- g. A jazz band joined the party when, it had finished its nightly stint at one f the gayer London night clubs and there-wadancing in the flat below sleepy Sir s James Barrie. Perhaps, at first, Sir James dreamed on peacefully of dancing fairies about his head. However, when over 200 of London's young bohemians start dancing, the fantasy of fairy feet cannot last long for the man who "sleeps" above. latest fad, the LONDON'S party, is no mere Sir James M. BarAt least. whimsy. rio, noted playwright and authority on those little rules and regulations that " whimsies, is certain that the London grnndr dames laid store by in Victoria's time. party given by the Hon. The Tennants decided on a pajama David Tennant and his bride, the former a was not delightful party and drew up a list of some 250 Hermione Baddeley, of their friends whom they wanted to caprice. In fact, Sir James was so annoyed over come. They didn't stop there, however, fora made for there was much thought to be given this particular party that he to the question of providing food and mal request that it be brought to a halt, of the even though it was in celebration drink, principally drink, for so many ' " , of one guests. You see, the second heir to a marriage of young Tennant and actresses. Baron's estate is apt not to be wealthy, England's better known young and champagne and other party beverSir James, author of "The Little Minister," has written some beautiful lines ages are expensive, even in England. " The invitations to the Tennants' about children at play, but when the entertained all of their little playfrolic finally went out, bidding " party the guests to a "pajama-and-bnttlmates with a he protested against this sort of romping. party, which Mrs. TenThe fact that the party was at its height nant interpreted to her friends as where at 3 a. m.. in the flat below that meaning that the guests shouw Sir James was striving to sleep, probably come garbed in pajamas and each had something to do with the playwright's bringing a bottle :and a bottle in England doesn't mean milk, lack of appreciation of the unique manner in which the Tennants chose to make either. British "whoopee." Prospects of the party caused a The party started shortly after 11 p. m.. merry ripple in bohemian Mayfair and it was 3 a. m., when the weary Sir circles in Iondon, for most of the invitations went in that direction. James sent down a request to the Tent. Sir The Tennants set no great store nants to bid their guests James's request notwithstanding, it was by those lights of London society who call themselves "the bright not until 5 a. m., when dawn was breaking across the Thames, that the last young people." Their fnends are pajama-cla- d guest (and probably the last prominent, but they are the sort bottle) was gone. It would seem that the who lay not so much faith in Tennants have a strong dash of "Peter family trees a they (to in nbilitf to do things themselves. Pan" in them. All this excitement, which has London The night of the, merry aflutter, came about when the Hon. party arrived and wheezy taxirabs, bright new David, brother of Lord Glenconner, stepson of Lord Grey, of Fallodon, and limousines. Baby Austins, and nephew of Lady Asquith (otherwise. chugging sporis cars began to discharge a laughing, singing, merrv Margot) married Hermione. The marriage was no surprise, for the romance group of riam!-cla- d guests at had been of several years standing. The the door of the Tennants. The Tennants, garbed ih gloriclimax of the nuptial celebration was the sensation. "Botous, glowing orange pajamas, rebig "pajama-and-bottle- " tle parties" in England are "old stutt," ceived their guests in exotic state. having been copied from America, but They had provided only two cases of champagne and it is said that the combination with pajamas is new. The TennanU have a fiat in Adelphi the rule of "pajama-and-bottlTerrace off the Tnames embankment in was rigidly enforced. Those guest r the very heart of a small and exclusive who tried to crash in without pais Sir James their were and Barie bottles sent right jamas literary colony. home to correct things and reneighbor and there are other distingheavy-ladeuished-" neighbors, including the Savage turned, The array of pajamas was someClub, an organization of masculine exarts. of the thing to dazzle the eye. The ponent Perhaps the Tennants were rroud of orange cajamas that covered the : 'i- I their fiat, for it must have taken a "bit slendef form of the hostess-brid- e and the lank figure of the brideof wangling" to get one in that exclusive tection, or perhsps they were merely so groom were as nothing compared tickled over their marriage that they to the pajamas displayed by their wanted all of their fnends to enjoy their guest. There were gorgeous happiness. At any rate they decided to Parisian creations of pink crepe "throw" a party. Of course, it had to de Chine and lace, and some marMAMA. be an unusual party, for young David velous futuristic designs, and is not one to kiss the boot of convention, Viscountess Grey, of Fallodon, Whose Book, "Shepherds' Crowns,1 plenty of those brilliantly striped and Hermione was never a stickier for pajamas that only a Bond Street Stephen, David's Brother. well-stock- "pajama-and-bottle- Ten-nan- A, , ' If . n 'I ' ' " s -- quoteairom r nis own "Little Sinister "It's grand, and yon canna expect to be baith grand and cotnfortable." Perchance Sir James also gave consideration to all the pretty things he has written of youth h :1 'I f r . if - ts "pajama-and-bottle- e" tertainment of the grandt t.T SW';JA f ft n. " . Brtuts abts f nhtT t- - -- irtr . Was Illustrated by Her Son, ammo. Some tamet have recalled that, as Hermione Baddeley, Mrs. Tennant won her first theatrical success playing the part 01 a verv. oh very, naughty lit tle girl. That was in 'The Likes of Er " when Miss Baddelev as ht bad little girl of the London slums gave ah exhibition of GENTLEMAN BLACKSMITH Hon. David Tennant at One of H Whimsical Avocations. He Has a "c6mnlex on Wrought Iron Work, and Loves to Labor Over It. and love, and endeavored to forget the noise without temper and protest Strangely enough, she foMpwed this Whatever Sir James success with another part of a similar said or thoucht when be nature when she played the role of a very naughty girl of the African, finally decided that the time had come for action In this production, "The Forest,'jungle: Miss he remembered that a Baddeley was so terribly naughty that she leaped across the stage to lock her Scot, as well as an is always a genankles about the. neck of the man she tleman. He is a loved, so that he might not leave her. man' and not That was a real bit of acrobatic acting, but even in those days the grange dimrt given to bursting in on hs whisoered that perhaps it wasn't exactly 'neighbors, so he sent word to the Tennants fey his a ladylike procedure. The next sensation that Miss Baddeley caused was when she awfully respectable d butler that it appeared in a revue by Noel Coward,, would give him great this time acting the part of a naughty pleasure if his young little giri at a vicarage garden party. In this revue she sang a song about her neighbors would bid their own naughtiness and used a word, describguests good-nigh- t. The request of Sir . ing herself that caused many a shudder. James had little effect on Maybe that native humor of HermioM the Tennants and their Baddeley is exercising itself. Perhaps party. Sir James may be she is just taking a siy dig at Sir' James for having written that: a little- martinet when h is directing a reheaml of "It is not true that woman was made from man's rib: she was" really mads one of his plays, but in from his funny bone." Adelphi Terracer he is just At any rate, the Tennants gave the Fir James Barrie. The London season a lively start, and Sir party went on, getting James, authority on whimsies that he is, merrier and merrier.. It was two hours after probably would have thought it a delightSir James ,had a;ked for ful bit of whimsy if it 'had all taken the finale that the laat p4ace at 3 p. m., instead of 3 a. ra. night-cappe- - PARTY-'THROWER'- Or-- f plate-smashin- g. :.r Octt.iU. IKl. Istmstleasl rMWrt Saoa. Ia ., The "pajama- -- - f..v. 1 -and-bottle" If J 'fit )' .. 1 good-nigh- 7 . , |