{"id":111697,"date":"2017-11-28T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:13:04","slug":"dinner-parties-and-brothers-egbert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/dinner-parties-and-brothers-egbert-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Parties and The Brothers Egbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Not all the hosts of Edwardian parties belonged to the \u2018<i>haut ton<\/i>\u2019. What matter, if they had money to burn? There was never a lack of \u2018<i>convives<\/i>.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;\">In \u2018The Melodies linger on,\u2019 W. MacQueen-Pope tells this story about a dinner party:-  <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;\">&#8220;Jimmy  White, the famous millionaire, when at the height of his fame and  fortune, once gave a dinner party to a crowd of other very wealthy men.  There was always a streak of mischief and malice in the make-up of the  ex-bricklayer from Rochdale, and on this occasion he engaged the  Brothers Egbert to act as waiters, giving them a free hand.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;\">Plates  crashed round their ears, the rolls were of cement, the knives and  forks of India rubber, the spoons collapsed, and the few who managed to  consume their soup found sets of false teeth at the bottom.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;\">The Brothers Egbert surpassed themselves.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-F606v8Dfng8\/T45PkQT05aI\/AAAAAAAABC8\/-4z_hECSjUY\/s1600\/Egbert%2BBrothers.JPG\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"324\" height=\"234\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732606859961230754\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/egbert2bbrothers-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111698\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 234px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 324px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;\">Seth  and Albert Egbert,  were music hall sensations with their &#8216;Happy  Dustmen&#8217; routine, their broad humour was well suited to the silent  movies and they made a series of slapstick comedies between 1912 and  1916  for the EcKo film Company.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all the hosts of Edwardian parties belonged to the \u2018haut ton\u2019. What matter, if they had money to burn? There was never a lack of \u2018convives.\u2019 In \u2018The Melodies linger on,\u2019 W. MacQueen-Pope tells this story about a dinner party:- &#8220;Jimmy White, the famous millionaire, when at the height of his fame and fortune, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}