LONDON SAVAGE CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 3

LONDON SAVAGE CLUB.

CELEBRATES ITS JUBILEE, . A largo gathering of ■JSa'vages arid their friends filledV tho .capacious Grand /Hall; of tho .Hotel Cecil oil; Sunday .evening (says the "Stago"\ of D.ecombcr/12), 'for tho purpose of celebrating itho fiftieth/ annual "dinner 'of the Savage ..Cliib. :Tho ; annual dinner is. usually. held, on a; Saturday, ;but the presenco of Sir Charles,Wyndhara.in the chair mado.it,. of '.course, 'more advisable that the'.Sunday should be choso'n; . otherwise. Siri-Charles, who had recently •to shut the Criterion; on tho occasion of a command performance, would again liavo had ito close :h'is house. Sir' Charles bad the' support 'on :his right of; Sir Edv/ard AVardJ. R.C.B;,- \ylio," during' the ovening, touched upoii tho work, ■'appreciated : and .. .unappreciated, .- of- ~the-..limy Council; and on his: left of. tho 'nowly-hon-oured singer, Sir Charles Santlcy.;,whilo further support, wad .lent by Sir Squire Bancroft, ■Mr. G. l'Yampton, R.A.," : Sir A.'C. Mackenzie, Judgo AVoodfall," and various other .leading lights in the artistic and.scientific world. Sir Charles Wyhdham's; excollent speech, in. which-ho gavo tho toast'of. "Tho Savago ..Club,!'..'was .generally, recognised as . one of •the-best'.emanating from the chajr.on similar .occasions'..for many years.; . .With humorous •and 7 witty touches. Sir Charles skated round tho.,origin of. the. Club, declining .to .commit 'himself'.to statement of p'ositivo fact 011 thesubjcct. '.' 'Inter alia,' lie' made'a fqw. ! sly digs.at tho rules of the Club, and passing on to. tho .list .of members, .lie recalled' tho- fact that, 'of tlioso who were members' in'lßs7, only one, tho loved and honoured Tegetmeicr, remained. Continuing, Sir Charles remarked 011 the progress'.of 'the Club.::} "Wo have emerged," ho said,."from our irresponsible youth; wo ,havq sown our, _wild. oats.. No longer do wq account, tho just and' prompt nayment'.'of our. debts as an offeiico to-bo visited by scvcro admonition,' if not total oxcommunication. No longer 'is that/incident of our early days possible, that grand incident, covoring all concerned witli glory, that evor to bo, remembered incident,' when ono member of irrepressiblo and expansive hoiiesty, in a moment of rccltless profusion, and a temporarily well-filled purso, paid, unasked, tho long over-due 'subscriptions of all'the other members of tho'Club."

/Tho chairman further reminded thoso present that tho King was' a member of tho Club from 18S2 to his/accession, arid that lie continues, so to speak, that membership ill'the person of the l'rinco of Wales. : Sir Charles concluded a .particularly ablo speech by saying: "Long may tho Savago Club continue to be a royal exchange of thought and where, wit encounters wit, fancy stimulates fancy, and heart opens out to heart." •