Beatrice Lillie

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In 1926 Beatrice Lillie returned to New York city to perform. She never performed the "Dinner Napkins" routine in Britain because British audiences had already seen it performed by the Australian-born English revue performer Cicely Courtneidge for whom it was written. She eventually separated from her husband (but the couple never divorced); he died in 1934.

Beatrice Gladys "Bea" Lillie (May 29 1894 – January 20 1989) was an actress and comedic performer. Sheridan Morley noted in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that "Lillie's great talents were the arched eyebrow the curled lip the fluttering eyelid the tilted chin the ability to suggest even in apparently innocent material the possible double entendre".