Evening star., 1921-09-25
THE RAMBLER COMPLETES SERIES ON
OLD DRAMATIC CLUBS OF WASHINGTON

stew and then ride home in q horse
car-or as near home as a horse car
would take US. We used to have rip
roarious fine times The Unity Club
was organized in 1879 and lived
PsassfuI fs M 9SE G losS ster tine living hHE
at 1905 G street, was president; Mrs.
d. T voorhis, then living at 1923 Q
street, was vice president: X. A. Phil
lips. then living at 1922 New York
wood, then Of 11O6 o street. was sec
retary. 1 have with me a card OF in
vitation to attend "the fourth meet
ing of the season of the Unity Club.
at the Elsmere. 1906 H street. Wed.
nesday evening, December 10. 1894"
The card says that Hon. w. J.
Bryan of Nebraska will entertain the
club with a paper on Income Tax.
Think Of going to meeting for
good time and listening to Jilliams
Wenning bryan talk on income tax
1t is written in the invitation that he
would entertain" the club! Goats
and little fishes! What an evening of
dissipation! And yet even now there
are people who, with the hope OF
hooking some feeble-minded victims.
send out invitations which tell that
"The Hon. Gulduzzle Bunkem" or
1.-The Hon. Pott B. Mushhead will ad-
dress the meeting.
But In spite of the Entertainment
with the paper on the income tax. We
had a good time at the Unity Club
meetings. The club several times
met at the home of Mayor Matthew
C. Emery, No. 207 / street northwest.
remember one very happy occasion:
H p. Moulton presided and WIZ
Stierlin. later president and then
secretary, read the minutes of the
previous meeting; s!, Gen, Bl Birney ;nes read a..
Ancens paper Literature en There ssnpPu Was n" 10
way of getting away from papers,
They confronted you at every meet
ing.
Maggie Maddox gave US a piano
selection. Ann Virginia Culbertson re-
cited two poems which she had writ
Nine Dagny ROLAND. Will Caulfield'
Harry Shelley and Mia Schmidt sang,
Yorke AtLee whistled Sleeping, |
Dreamed. Love- and The Mocking
Bird" Maud Jarvis recited the Chariot
Race from Ben Hur," Will ConieN
gave limitations of the leading actors
of that age. Victor Poesche recited
classic entitled "Watermelons." How
ser and Bicksler did a turn on dozen
musical instruments, Barton Miller
recited "Cassius Incitng Brutu5
Against Caesar'-an old-fashioned
recitation that has not had new line
added to it for more than hundred
years-and Clint Balinger. Talbot Pu-
lizzi and Bob Lowe played Aroun"
the Corner" one of the amusing
dramas of tie period
l remember another meeting of the
club It WAS III 1892. We did NOT
have the pleasure of listening TO a
paper from the perpetual nominee on
'1ncome Tax" nor Yet paper on
The Aechippus in Ancient Litera-
keeping us cheered uD DR.. Arthur
! Macdonald addressed us on the subject
of Experiment Criminology. Miss
Walcott played popular piano selec-
ton entitled Way Down Upon the
Suwanee River" and Miss Maggie
Dobbins sang new song entitled
Say Au Revoir But Not Goodbye.
Lulu Facius playing the accolapani-
ment The Walcott Orchestra was
| there-Mrs. w. H. Walcott. Blanche.
Maude. Clinton and William and. by
the way, l wonder where those very
pleasant parlor musicians are? Guy
Collins recited AUX Italians" TO slow
/ piano music by Julia Singleton. Beu-
lah Gilbert did a monologue. Miss
Wilma Willenbucher sang Time and
Tide with Mrs. Susanna Oldberg as
accompanist. Ned Hay recited, and we
got the instigation sccne-we We're
strong in .'instigations'- from Othel-
10, with Barton Miller as 1ago and Bob
Lowe as the jealous Moor who raVed
! about the handkerchief and let the
green-eyed monster get him. Daisy
| Hammack and Talbot Pulizzi played
| "A Pair of Lunatics," and really they
did it to perfection. One of the early
, presidents of the Unity Club was DR..
William A. Jack. now seventy-four
years young. and another president
| was Mr. Philip.
All. my friends. them were the gold
/ en- days! When little yellow gas jets
were the street lamps. when the 18th
street horse cars stopped at the foot
| of the hill and the Anacostia one
horse car turned on a turn table at
the navy yard gate!