Herbert Beerbohm Tree - Popular Culture References

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The songwriter Maude Valerie White dedicated her setting of Byron's "So we'll go no more a-roving" to Tree, "in grateful remembrance of 13 July 1888".

In his autobiographical novel Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (published in 1928), Siegfried Sassoon comments that his mother was "always intending to go to a matinee of Beerbohm Tree's new Shakespearean production". In the musical Cats, Gus the Theatre Cat claims, "He has acted with Irving, he's acted with Tree".

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