STARVE AT DINNERS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11949, 20 May 1933, Page 5

STARVE AT DINNERS

TRIALS OF FAMOUS MEN

Famous men often attend great- dinners given in their honour and eat just a roll and butter. Mr George A. Drucker, who went to London from Now York to see how dinners in Lonare. conducted, told a, representative of the “Sunday Express” the names of .some of them. Mr Drucker lias at~ tlended 10,000 dinners in the United States as a photographer. “I once heard,” said Mr Drucker, “tho late President Taft speak glowingly of the food provided at a banquet where hie was the guest of honour—and with my own eyes I had seen him nibble, at a roll and butter and nothing more. President Roosevelt rarely touches the dishes that are placed before him. Mr Hoover attends few banquets and eats little.” Mr Drucker’s funniest oxperienae at a. banquet was when Caruso was calk cd on to sing at one- “Caruso declined,” he said, “but tho people were insistent, and' Caruso agreed to sing. He went behind a screen and played one of his gramophone records. The audience was spellbound.' was enjoying a quiet chat with-a friend, and at the end of the song he stepped in; front of tho screen and, with .“ bow, acknowledged the storm of . applause. He explained that his voice was not in good fettle that evening, •file audience never knew i]io trick no had played.”