The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10
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maps l SnOuld say, to introduce Its pic
turesqueness into polite Society, have told
me of similar experiences Of their own,
and once three of us had evidence that we
We're supposed to employ in our personal
talk the language of our fiction characters.
George AIDE. George v. Hobart now a sue
cessful playwright, but then writing Ger
man dialect stories, and l were seated at
a club table talking. A club member
passed US, and not waiting to go beyond
our hearing said to a friend my God.
what poiyglot murders are being COM
mitted there," We were discussing social
ism in English which would be endured, at
least by the most sympathetic reader OF
the Atlantic Monthly.
The Expletive Effective.
.Chimmie's" expletive, What tell
caused many forebodings of evil results.
A clergyman wrote to me a sermon Of q
letter urging me to abandon my ways of
literary SHINING, and let the Bowery boy
whom. he said, he liked-use only Ian
would corrupt the purity of speech. won-
der If he wrote such a letter to George
Eliot? / came upon What the hell' in
'Middlemarch," liked it. treasured it and
used it at the first opportunity in pre-
ciselv the sense George Eliot's character
use. 1t. The expletive is of British origin
and was picked up by New York long
shoremen from British sailors and became
a medium OF eloquence among that class
Of street urchins whose vocabulary of Eng
lish seldom exceeds more than $50 words.
I once heard two newsboys discuss an
exciting incident at Peck slip. East
River. the holding up of brewery wagon
driver by "a fresh cop from de Oak street
station" and arrive at satisfactory un-
Outstanding of the freshness of the police
officer and the holiness of the driver by
using a few other words than the expletive
but with many ingenious infections.
There had been dozen, perhaps more,
attempts to found club in New York,
designed as to membership and purposes
after the Bohemian Club in San Francisco.
All had failed This proved the correct
ness of an opinion expressed by Mr.. Dana
in an editorial, that such a club as the
Bohemian could succeed in no American
city except San Francisco.
The Bohemian Club in its half century
of active and ever enlarging life has be-
come an influence in Pacific coast art and
literature. It's success is due to its sturdy
maintenance of its original purpose: the
in,
four arts, and those in quick sympathy
with them. An industrial or financial
nabob is as welcome to membership as is
the youngster thrilled by the exhibition of
his first canvas. the production of his first
play or score, the sale of his first story or
the acceptance of his design for a bun
galow. Otherwise, not. That otherwise
not" is what has prospered the Bohemian
Club; its observance what had de-
feated attempts to establish such club
in New York While / was vice-president
of the Bohemian Club its president was
banker, later a United States Senator,
James d. Phean, who buckled down to the
no small matter of control, direction and
supervision of the business details and
operation of the club, and with enthusiasm
also performed his part in the clubs high
and low jinks entertainments. 1t was that
spirit displayed by all members which built
the club upon a solid foundation into one
of the most notable institutions of its
kind anywhere.
Undismayed by former failures, a group
of writer's and artists again undertook to
establish in New York a club similar to
the Bohemian. We named it the Cloister;
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