1923 Dutch Treat Club Yearbook

1923 Dutch Treat Club Yearbook

Author: Dutch Treat Club

Year: 1923

Dutch Treat Club - 1923 The Committee appointed to combat ignorance among the literary classes reports performance if not progress. During the twelvemonth beginning March 23rd, 1922, members of the Dutch Treat Club have been exposed to information on a wide variety of subjects, to music from expensive throats and highly insured fingers, to eminent conjurors, psychics, poets and celebrities authorized by Keedick or Pond. When it surveys the list of notables it has inveigled into appearing before this organization, it marvels as much at its own audacity as at the credulity of those it has victimized. In approaching experts of reputation sufficiently high to tempt the club membership to a weekly delusion that to them has been accorded the privilege of addressing the most cultivated audience in the U. S., an audience composed of the actual brains of the journalistic, periodical and publishing • crafts and that this distinguished coterie of authors, editors, reporters, artists, architects and what not, is perhaps a bit better versed in the subject than the specialist to whom it condescends to lend polite attention. That it should be possible to persuade men of actual achievement of the