New-York tribune., 1912-08-11
THE ENGLISH CABARET
lin the "Cave Of the Golden
! Calf" Where LondonerS ''Can
Stay Up After Nursery
Hours"
rspec.al q The TrIhun. I

London, Aug 3-They manage the caba-
ret after a fashion Of their own in Lon
don. The Cabaret Theatre Club. whose
members and guests gather in the Cave
of the Golden Calf TO fling a British de-
dance al the British Philistine in art and
letters is an institution at once ambitious
and modest. Among the committee mem
bers are Haldame Macfall. Arthur
Machen, Albert Rothenstein and Arnold
Bennett "a very variously clubabe man.
evidently, the historian Of the Five
Towns, since the Omar Khayyam Club Is
another orga nization which has recently
claimed his allegiance Any form of
art" declare the incorporators OF the club,
will be welcomed by us. provided II bring
with IT, from whatever milieu 1t comes,
either life or beauty" And 10 quote them
again. our aims they announce, have
the simplicity Of a need. We want
place given UP TO gayety: TO a gayety
stimulating thought rather than crushing
II. We want surroundings which, after
the reality Of life. reveal the reality of the
unreal We 90 not want 10 CONT
nentslize; We only want to do away TO
some degree With the distinction that the
Nord continental implies. and with the
necessity Of crossing the Channel to
laugh freely and to sit UP after nursery
hours" Some of the authors and com
posers whose cults are TO flourish near
the pedestal of the Golden Calf are. We
are further told. Abercrombie. Nilliers de
lIsle Adam. John Davidson, Walter De-
lamare. Arthur Machen, T. Surge Moore.
Ezra Pound August Strindbers. Frank
Wedekind. Yeats, Granville BsntOcks
Dellus, Holbrooke. Rsoul Lapara, Err
nest Moret, Florence Schmitt. Dalhousie
Young To be well up in the achieve
rnents OF the owners OF all these names
would be a liberal education In the ltera-
ture and music Of the day after to-mor-
row Nevertheless no very violent protest
sganst the standards OF to-day has "a
vet found expression in the recorded do
iugs OF the votsries OF the Golden Calf.
So far the bIeat of the creature has been
decidedly more aggressive than his bite.
II takes q fairly we'll seasoned Londoner
or very inquiring American to discover
the stall OF the Golden Calf without con-
sjdsrabIe effort Eddon street? Don
know no such place confessed two Of
the usually omniscient oxford Circus po-
Hcemen when appealed to for guidance
m the July nieht which had been all
nounced as the last Of the six weeks
tentative season Finally. however. In
by-street off Regent street the goal
Of the seeker after the cabaret was
indicated by a solitary electric hght
over the doorway of q particularly dark
and gloomy looking warehouse. Only
members and members friends can pene-
trate further. once duly vouched for, one
proceeds down a broad. well lighted flight
Of wooden steps to a glorifed cellar-the
cave OF the Golden Calf. In spite or It's
clever Disguise, the room bears marks OF
its former low estate Rough beams cross
the ceiling al intervals, the spaces De
tween them colored pale green and dotted
with brightly tinted electric globes. Tn@
stage f. small. demure. drsped IN simple
green-no hint OF a secessionst move
ment there On the walls mysterious ng-
ures in orange and purple. doing lncom-
prehenslble gymnastics against BACK
ground Of crimson. furnish the expected
setting Of o-post-futurist art.
But as for the rest audience and per-
formsnce alike. the looked-for unconven-
uonalty was far 20 seek. Glancing about
Aopeful Of strange sights. the visitor was
onfronted with nothing but the usual ir-