Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — Entertaining the Duke. [ARTICLE]

Entertaining the Duke.

That irrepressible artist, tbe late Phil May, “saved the situation” at the Savage club one night in a very happy manner. It was an occasion when the lhte duke of Teck was present, and on account of this royal visit the entertainment committee thought it incumbent upon them to substitute for the usual free-and-easy show a strictly conventional entertainment, which, for all the dqke’s good nature, plainly bored him to death. „ The proceedings went on in ft funereal gloom very alien to the roundings, till, in despair, one of the committee begged Phil May to cheer things up a bit, as only PhS May could, “Phil” asked for some black chalks and a drawing board. The duke bad just become a grandfather by the birth of the present prince of Wales, but few saw Phil May’s drift as he drew, in his own inimitable style, an infant in long clothes grabbing at ft feeding bottle, till be surmounted tbe whole with the prince of Wales* plumes. The duke was convulsed with laughter and the evening was saved.