WALLER AND TREE.
(To tbe Editor.) Sir, —Described as an "amusing" anecdote, Mr. Oscar Asche is reported to have related to the Rotary Club an alleged conversation between the late Mr. Lewis Waller and the late Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, in which the | former, when seeking an engagement j under Sir Herbert's management, and being asked by him what salary he required "barked £100 a week and not Id leas," to which he Teceived a. reply, presumably meant as amusing, but which will strike most people aa merely I insolent. Poor Waller. Poor Tree. 1 Waller, most unbusinesslike, most amiable, most lovable, and least grasping of men. Tree, polished and brilliant wit, whose repartee, if often bitter, was never vulgar and who, strange as it may appear to the Rotary Club, invariably epoke as a gentleman.—l am, etc., TEMPORA MUTAXTUR.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 8
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