Word: clubroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breeding, none can outclass the Metropolitan Opera Club. Nicknamed "The Penguins," because its members wear white tie and tails, the club is the last vestige of the courtly pomp and pageantry that once attended grand opera. Last week members sipped champagne and dined beneath crystal chandeliers in their sumptuous clubroom in the new Met, then adjourned to their two tiers of box seats to hear Die Meistersinger. It is a weekly ritual that has been going on no matter what the opera for 73 years, but now, in the name of progress, tradition is bending...
Gone, too, is the tradition of wearing top hats in the clubroom and during performances; many members nowadays think it is too pretentious. Anyway, ever since last year, when one high-hatted member was mugged while en route to the opera, there has been the feeling that to wear a silk topper is to invite trouble. Nor do members wear opera capes; too many wise guys shout "Batman!" or "Phantom of the Opera...
Poet & Boxer. The most radical change is in the clubroom facilities. At the old Met, members had an elegant and spacious pad that was only a few bars' stroll from the bar and had a private entrance tended by a liveried doorman. The new room, decorated in quiet browns and blacks, seats 80 fewer members than the old, and the screens that separated women guests from the stag section have been removed...
...club's emblem: a naked girl slapping a tambourine. Back in 1893, the Vaudeville Club, as it was then known, leased a room in the old Met. It was common for members to slip out of a performance of Faust, dash across the corridor to the clubroom and watch acts like "Papinta and Her Novel Chromatic and Serpentine Dances." The nightly vaudeville show became increasingly risque until a police raid obliged the members reluctantly to forgo Papinta for Pagliacci...
...Clubroom. Pro Quarterback is the brainchild of Tod Lansing, 52, a retired public relations man who reconstructed it from a game he had worked out on graph paper as a boy. Says Lansing: "Any fan feels that if he were a little bit bigger or a little bit faster or a little bit younger-well, then he'd certainly show everyone a thing or two. This is the guy's chance...