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Title: The Arts Club and its members
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, G. A. F
Subjects: Arts Theatre Club (London, England) Arts
Publisher: London : Truslove and Hanson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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r records to adorn,Here s to the men who made our ClubAnd the day when we were born. Twas in the mild Victorian reign Of whist and crinoline,Before the Flapper and the Nut Had barged upon the scene.Before the aviator flew. Or motorist could mote.Or women signified with bricks Their passion for the vote. That scoundrel Time breaks many things But leaves intact our chain;The torch was handed on to us, We hand it on again.For members come and members go. Since man s constructed thus,But still the Club remains the same, And therefore here s to us ! Weve painters, sculptors, architects, To decorate their age;We welcome here the shining lights Of music and the stage.Weve men of law and medicine To aid us when we trip ;In brief, weve sundry sorts of men And one good fellowship. Since womans softening influence We value and revere.For her we put our awning up, But only twice a year.Thus Aphrodite at the Arts No fatal scheme contrives ;At Bridge alone we lose our Hearts Only at Pool our Lives.
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THE CLUB AT DOVER STREET 43 When fifty years again have passed, Whatever else may die,Still may the concord of the Arts The raids of time defy ;Still may our telephone convey Excuses incomplete,And wicked men remain to dine At forty Dover Street. The war has affected this as it has affected all other clubs. Manymembers were employed on war work of one kind or another, and ofthese a large proportion took part in the actual fighting, brave men,refusing to recognize a limit of age as an obstacle to the devotion oftheir lives to the service of their country. Many others performeduseful non-combatant work, and painters were employed by theGovernment in designing weird schemes of camouflage for ships,and architects in erecting buildings for war, housing, and munitionpurposes at home and abroad. Domestic difficulties increased, and themanagement of a club was no easy task. Supplies both solid and liquidwere hard to obtain, and Food Controllers, Coal Controllers, andother high and mighty offi

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