Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soberly studious is Kansas City's big Book Chat Club. Founded 17 years ago by five ladies of whom four are still active, it has grown to take in 300 members, meets at the Hotel Muehlebach, discusses current bestsellers, without, say Kansas City booksellers, appreciably increasing book sales. But in Omaha, the Matthews Bookstore, biggest in the city, actively organizes book clubs, has been so successful that Omaha now boasts more of them than any city of its size in the U. S. Most influential is the Dundee. Complaining that there are not enough books with uplifting messages, Dundee...
Midway between society and self-improvement are groups like Our Reading Club of San Antonio (&Oldest in Texas/' a claim bitterly disputed by the Browning Club of Waco), which meets in an arty, 102-year-old Mexican hut to read carefully prepared papers on subjects like &Art in Literature.& In the same category belong Nashville's Friday Morning Literary Club, which began as the Tea and Repartee Club 43 years ago, San Francisco's Cap and Bells (200 members) which assembles in the swank Fairmont Hotel...
Unabashed seekers for self-improvement are literary societies for Negroes in San Antonio-the Utopia Club. Elizabeth Prophet Club, Hotel Men's Wives Club, etc.-which solemnly discuss books by Negroes, an occasional novel like Gone With the Wind, in which Negroes appear...
Exceptions occur when politics butts in: the 39th season of Portland's Tuesday Afternoon Club started badly this year when Mrs. Edward Pelton's review of America's Sixty Families created so much dissension that the club decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...
Touchiest subjects are political disputes, but most clubs have approved forthright political studies like Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's enlightening Inside Europe. Club programs show that much emphasis is placed on light romances. But in the last two years almost every important club in the U. S. has endorsed Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, which most U. S. critics would place near the top in any list of U. S. post-War works of literature...