ANTI-PRUDE CLUB

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 23

ANTI-PRUDE CLUB

BAN ON CATTINESS AND GOSSIP LONDON’S LATEST Are you an Anti-prude? Tf you dislike gossip, cattiness, and backbiting, you have, at any rate, the spirit of London's latest club. Its name is “The Anti-prude and j Arts Club.” Its members are some i who intend never to be "too snobbish or too conventional over the minor details of life." Its membership its restricted to 41, who “must have a hobby, and aspire to or have a. proj fession.” Malice in conversation is doomed, ''but gently: “Members should try not to gossip or say unkind things about people, but instead to put in a good word whenever possible.” “This is not so much a rule as a request, for none can be forced to do it.” Though the name of the club gives no hint of it, members are also expected to support British industries. Miss Lily Elsie is the president, and other recruits i quite a number from the stage) are Miss Dorothy Seacombe. Miss Dorothy Dickson. Mr. Arthur Margetson. Mr. Barrie Oliver, and Major “Pop” Beemau, of the Roehampton Club. “It all started through three of us overhearing someone being 'catty' and backbiting, and we thought how horrible it was.” said Miss Binkv Moss, the treasurer, to a “Daily Chronicle” ; representative. “So three of us— Miss Dorothy Hyson, daughter of Miss Dorothy Dickson. Miss Winnie Paget, daughter of Major J. B. Paget, j and myself—started the club.”