While members of Chicago's Union League Club strove last week to find a successor to Calvin Coolidge (see below), members of New York's Union League Club hustled the nude figure of Paul Robeson to the club librarian's office.
Once yearly the dusty, mid-Victorian Union League, a semipolitical (Republican) organization with some social pretensions, pays its respects to Art with an exhibition to which members may bring their wives and daughters. Advertised as chef d'oeuvre of last week's exhibition was the lifesize, specifically nude bronzed plaster cast of Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, Shakespearean...
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