UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1924, Page 9

UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

“LATE SUFFER PARTY.” ANOTHER TELEPHONE HOAX.. A?-, unrehearsed comedy, which Siist ’’ b f ? all€d “ The Unhidden Guests, has been enacted in London at the house ref a well-known West- End Uhe guests, numbering about 1’ r r T, U P, to the house for the feast which they had been told to cxpeot, but they went away hungry while firOT- watched their departure from her bedroom window with oonsiderable relief not unmixed with a little chagrin. Most of the characters in the comedy were, theatrical celebrities. • • . - 'The story of “Tlie Unbidden Guests” was afterwards related by the actress hostess, Miss Tallulah Bankhead, a charming yo.ung American girl, who is appearing in “The Creaking Chair” at the Comedy Theatre. “I- am s o glad to be able to explain to all my friends hmv it happened,” said Miss Bankhead. I hey have been hoaxed, 'and so have I. The first inkling I had of it was late on Friday night, when an old friend rang me up at the Comedy and asked me if I would mind him coming to my party in a lounge suit, as he had fust arrived from the country, f f_°‘d him I knew' nothing ref a party, <ind lie then suid he liad received an invitation by telephone tc. a late supper party.. Stortly after that my huttler rang up. He was -in despair. There was nothing in the house to feed 40 people, and he thought it too bad of me to, spring a party like that upon him so late at night. Guessing that someone had been playing a practical joke, I hurried home to wait for the guests, who had certainly not been invited _by me. I told ‘the butler to explain the best he could to the people "’ho came, but by one o’clock in the morning is was beginning to get on mv nerves. So I locked no the house and turned out all the' liglifs. . “Then the latecomers began to arrive. Motor-cars and taxis w-ere stopping outside my house, and their occupants ringing my bell, and getting no reply, to their obvious surprise, until nearly 3 a.in. T was nearly Worn out by the strain, hut I could not go to H?d, so I kept watch through the blinds. • -

“And now, when I do want a party, I probably will not be able to get anyone to come;”