LORD GODDARD ENTERTAINS

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28457, 11 December 1957, Page 7

LORD GODDARD ENTERTAINS

Savage Club Eloquence Press Association—Copyright} LONDON. December 9. Five hundred artists, writers, •riots, musicians, scientists, and Ia *yers, celebrating the centendinner of the Savage Club. KWd their chairman, the Lord c&ef Justice, Lord Goddard, in “There’s a Thvem in the Town,” “Daisy Bell.” and “Lily « Uguna.” Lord Goddard is 80. In a speech delivered, as a remarked, with octoSenarian fire, wit, and eloquence, n® said that the club had “°urished because it had adhered rinctly to its original principle Jhat to be a member you must 66 a working man in literature art and be a good fellow. Lord Goddard referred to a aged peer who said in the L PPer House: “My Lords. I ask ®yself . . when a voice was ft eard replying: “Then you will gria damn silly answer!” mentioned the story of a sailor who returned from rj s first voyage full of anecdotes . the marvellous things he had •een.

The yokels in the pub were open-mouthed. Then in came a village drunk, he listened for a few minutes =od then said: “Young man, let [? e tell you that until you’ve had D.T.’s you’ve seen nothing.” Sir Alan Herbert made his Peech in verse. He said: hire’s the truth at which 1 hate to almost everyone can write book. t ew masterpieces pour T^ rn boys who never wrote a tr?opk before, "Ijue bilious babies profitably r b °om ~e s of frustration dating from womb. ine men of action, facing shot j,. an d shell, time to write their diaries Th 5 WelL * aeT e must be few beneath this .ample roof n aose reminiscences are not in Prooj But where the scribbler used to If 60 !? a crust < more is earned by buttock the bust.