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aplist@yahoogroups.com
Mar 1, 2005 7:35 pm
10588
I've just spotted this rather sinister portrait of Powell by photographer Bill Brandt that I've never seen before: ...
Stephen Holden
s.holden@...
Mar 3, 2005 3:16 pm
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Interesting--I'm not sure I'd even have recognized the sitter as Powell. Joanne Edmonds ... From: Stephen Holden [mailto:s.holden@...] Sent:...
Edmonds, Joanne H.
jedmonds@...
Mar 3, 2005 3:56 pm
10590
Powell has clearly borrowed Evelyn Waugh's suit to be photographed in. Terry Empson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
TEm8994907@...
Mar 3, 2005 7:40 pm
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Thanks for that Stephen. No I've never seen this photo before either. *Keith*...
Dont worry. Assuming I do not freeze to death in your mad spring, I shall busy myself with the Wallace Collection etc . Luckily I shall be staying near Regents...
sharon hannah
sharonhannah@...
Mar 5, 2005 6:25 am
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Jeanne V. Reed
jjr@...
Mar 9, 2005 6:31 pm
10594
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Lady Violet Powell's Birthday Date: Sunday, March 13, 2005 Time: All Day Lady Violet Powell (neé Pakenham)...
aplist@yahoogroups.com
Mar 12, 2005 10:47 pm
10595
Hello Society, Thanks for coming through so comprehensively with my Poussin query. I'm still plugging away at my thesis which is due April 8…it's panning out...
Allison Rung
allisonrung@...
Mar 14, 2005 12:32 am
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Allsion, My very limited knowledge f eating clubs is they were popular with some hoitier colleges (the Ivies particularly). As for in-town, post-grads might...
RLFriedman100@...
Mar 14, 2005 12:36 am
10597
In a message dated 3/13/2005 7:34:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, allisonrung@... writes: told by an engaging dinner companion. The memoirs? ...
Nicbirns@...
Mar 14, 2005 12:44 am
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... I believe they did in fact exist in the USA: they are usually -- I think -- referred to as gentleman's clubs to distinguish them from drinking-clubs (as...
Allison, I'd love to see your AM piece, myself. As far as the question below, my great-uncle belonged to the University Club in Cleveland, where until his...
my grandfather used to live during the week at the university club in boston, then came home to new york on weekends... in new york when there was a leisure...
Newglobe@...
Mar 14, 2005 3:48 am
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... Congratulations, Allison! A good source of history, members, artworks, architecture, photos, and other information about men's clubs in London (there are...
Jeanne V. Reed
jjr@...
Mar 14, 2005 4:04 am
10602
I can assure you that gentlemen's clubs flourished in the late 19th and 20th centuries in cities in the United States and are still alive and well today. Most...
Lonn Taylor
taylorw@...
Mar 14, 2005 4:10 am
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... And probably very different from those exceedingly moral Women's Clubs of the sort manipulated by Sillery to get a book by a man he didn't like banned in...
Alison, just an addition to make to Andrew and Rob's replies, if I may ... They certainly do, particularly in NYC, Boston and San Francisco, and I believe also...
Julian Allason
allason@...
Mar 14, 2005 7:37 am
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I can confirm Lonn's statement that the club is alive and well in North America; at least in Chicago, where I have dined at both the Metropolitan and...
Since being reminded of AP's plan to tell Dance "across the dinner table" I've been haunted by the possibility of establishing myself as the next Northrop Frye...
jamesdoyle
jamesdoyle@...
Mar 14, 2005 12:17 pm
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... That's so very interesting and explains a lot. We had a 'drinks party' for our daughter and her husband and their friends in one of the rooms at the...
Jeanne V. Reed
jjr@...
Mar 14, 2005 1:15 pm
10608
Allison wrote... ... and I'd like to add an explanatory note about (eating-?) clubs, which I don't believe ever took hold in the US (?), for my American...
Nick H noted ... That was White's, where Waugh and Randolph Churchill used to quarrel. Still going grandly. The late gossip columnist Nigel Demptster invented ...
Julian Allason
allason@...
Mar 15, 2005 9:29 am
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Dance appeared as part of a question on University Challenge last night (15th March) as an example of a roman fleuve (roman fleuve was the answer - Dance part...
... Since there seems to be a dearth of information about clubs in the 20th century, I wonder if it would be helpful for me to quote some anecdotes about those...
Jeanne V. Reed
jjr@...
Mar 17, 2005 3:14 pm
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... Including The Century Club, where Bill Warren plays host to the New York meetings of the Society. (Or is that a different sort of club?) SJPO...
So glad you brought up the Century. It is a different kind of club to the extent it stresses cultural and artistic interests ( inasmuch as I am neither a...
The new BBC series very loosely based on the life of Casanova features Matteo Bragadin the ancestor of Jacky - 'though not of course in the legitimate line'...
I haven't seen the television adaptation, but in the memoirs Signor Bragadin is not a priest. He is a patrician and Senator, who has served a term as an ...
TEm8994907@...
Mar 22, 2005 6:25 pm
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The Bragadino family contributed Marcantonio Bragadino who surrendered to the Turks at Famagusta in 1568 and in a fit of pique from the Turkish General ,...
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