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Compiled and Edited by ALEXANDER T. CASE Associate Editor VOLUME V San Francisco CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE CREMATION OF CARE! “In accordance with the by-laws of the Club, this volume of the Annals is published under the supervision of the Library Committee, F. Troman Harper, Chairman, Robert L. Rose, Secretary, Phillip V. Gilbert, Historiographer. The general printing supervision and the typographical design of this book by Logan Carey & Rehag. Special thanks are due Raymond M. Moulin for researching and supplying the negatives from which nearly all of the pictures in this book were made. Thanks also to Dean C. Stone for the special photographs of the Club House which appear at the beginning of this volume. Copyright by the Bohemian Club 1972 Recorder-Sunset Press San Francisco.” Those special photos are pictures of the inside of the San Francisco Club House. FIRST AND ONLY LIMITED EDITION. Measures 8 by 10 ¼ inches, xiv, 547 pages including the index printed on watermarked (not damaged, part of the design) Warren’s Olde Style paper, a quality, long lasting paper. 121 black and white photos of the Club Presidents during this period, events, and other members as well as 8 reproduced Low Jinks playbills and 4 reproduced pages of an account of “Alfred, The Chit-Counter” are printed in this book. A handsomely bound book with lovely gold gilding to the spine and to the rarely seen Mortuary Owl on the Club’s coat of arms on the cover. A rare and revealing glimpse into one of the world’s most elite men’s clubs. This book was originally made for members. Unstated limited edition, there were around 2500 members of the Bohemian Club in 1972. This fascinating history of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco from 1907-1972 is in chronological order and is divided into 4 sections. From the Preface: “Considerable material for the years 1907 to 1940 was gathered by Clay M. Greene and Joseph Henry Jackson but was never edited and prepared for publication. The present volume includes as Section A the annals of these years in abbreviated form. Section B continues with the years 1941 to 1972 in a more expanded format, each year being represented by accounts of our principal dramatic presentations (Christmas Play, Low Jinks, Grove Play) together with a commentary on each and an illustration. The business affairs of the Club are reflected in the excerpts from the yearly messages of the Presidents, followed by a chronological list of each year’s events. In Section C, stories of special significance appear under by-lines of members who, through close association with the events, were best qualified to set forth detailed accounts. In Section D, under the general classification of BOHEMIANA are stories, myths, poetry and other miscellaneous items from many members who answered the invitation to contribute such material.” Contents Introduction by Roy A.
Folger, then the Club’s President. The buyer will be able to trace the development of the Grove, find out about Club dues, learn what the Club owed on its mortgage, learn the names of the engineer and architect for the Post and Taylor Street Club House, discover which Grove camps funded the building of the Owl Shrine and when, the architect of the Owl Shrine is revealed as well. This book shows how the Club fared after its Clubhouse burned down in 1906, under prohibition and during wartime rationing. You will catch a glimpse of some of the more bawdy Low Jinks, find out why the inhabitants of Guerneville didn‘t like the Bohemian Club, how much money the Lambs Club of New York donated to the Club after the 1906 conflagration, how much Grove land purchases cost, how much the current Club House cost to build during the Great Depression, and how much it cost to electrify the Grove and which Citgo magnate donated the money to do it. Directors and/or Sires of Cremation of Care ceremonies for each year are named along with those who presented Lakeside Talks. This volume is a day by day chronicle of Club related events. Some examples--On May 25, 1913 “Memorial Services to Joaquin Miller at his home” were held where “at the end of the ceremony his ashes were scattered on the pyre he had erected.” On May 5, 1914 “Lady Isis“ the Club’s authentic Egyptian Mummy was celebrated with a Mummy Jinks. On October 4, 1916 a dinner was held in honor of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Seer of India. On April 9, 1917 Ernest Shackleton was honored. On Oct 3, 1917 Henry Morse Stephens’ 60th birthday was celebrated, “Woodrow Wilson sent a telegram wishing him his ’warmest congratulations’, and wishing him a delightful time at the Club dinner in his honor.” On July 11, 1919 Sergei Rachmaninoff was the guest of honor at an elaborate luncheon. On February 8, 1934 Dr. Leonard B. Loeb gave a Scientific Talk titled “Why Smash the Atom.” On November 1, 1945 Major General David Prescott Barrows gave a talk titled “What Shall We do With Japan?” On March 21, 1946 Herman Phleger gave a Report on the Nuremburg Trials, he was one of the prosecutors. On April 12, 1960 Richard Nixon Sired a “Smoke Filled Room”. On March 6, 1961 Admiral C.W. Nimitz sired a luncheon in honor of Lord Louis Mountbatten. On September 24, 1963 a Luncheon for members of the Supreme Court was held. From July 12-26, 1969 William H. Crocker II, John Diebold, Otis Marston, Hardin B. Jones, Roger Revelle, Arthur Motley, Walter W. Heller, William McChesney Martin, Charles E. Walker, Winton Blount, Robert Haskell, Clarence W. Mayhew, Luis W. Alvarez, David Rockefeller, David Packard, Frank Borman, and Lee A. Du Bridge gave Lakeside Talks at the Bohemian Grove. The 1949 Low Jinks was titled “Virgin Ore,” here’s an excerpt from Vol. V’s description: “It involved some mother lode miners, a Sheriff (Stan Noonan) and a displaced Southern Colonel (Fred Keast). The Colonel had just dynamited the privy of the local Red Light Madam, Maisie (Bob Herndon). The Colonel had discovered an out-crop of uranium ore under the privy. He planned to keep his find a secret, but the Sheriff recognizes the ore and its value. The Colonel’s daughter, Clementine, (Carl Hague) and Horatio, (Nick Alexander) are romantically paired. Horatio is a columnist, feigning to be a piano player in Maisie’s parlor. However, the Sheriff slavers for the hand of Clementine. He gets the Colonel’s consent to marry Clementine by promising to falsify land records so the Colonel will own the uranium claim. Previously, Maisie had to get rid of all her girls because their posteriors became radioactive from using the privy. A new batch of girls arrive. They sing and dance throughout the show. Maisie had written to her Congressman about her problems and a committee of six Congressmen arrive to investigate the luminous posteriors of her girls.” The 1964 Low Jinks was titled “DAMN IT! WHO DONE IT?” it ended with a “moving chorale, ’We Are a Well Hung Jury’”. In the Greco-Roman tradition, female characters in Bohemian Club and Grove plays are performed by men. On Herbert Hoover’s 40th anniversary membership in the Bohemian Club, a dual celebration was held with one half being in San Francisco and the other at the Waldorf Astoria in New York where Hoover was. It is described in “HERBERT HOOVER’S WELCOME INTO THE OLD GUARD,” here is an excerpt from the transcript of the phone call Hoover received at the New York celebration from Roy S. Folger at the San Francisco celebration: “The ash tree Yggdrasil
grows dark and deep "No, Mr. Hoover, those are not lines from the ritual of the OLD GUARD, but are recited so that you and our friends will sense the atmopshere of these beautiful surroundings--the Bohemian Grove, It’s beautiful here tonight with the manzanitas, the bay trees and ferns and the waterfalls, Mr Hoover. May I sit on the platform here in your Cave Man’s Camp and talk with you about the Old Guard?….Do you remember when some man shot an air gun loaded with red wine across the open air dining room and accidentally struck Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California? Dr. Wheeler wiped the wine from his chin, and when he saw the color, he swooned. Everyone was horrified and exclaimed, ‘Good Lord, they have shot Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler.’ Much to the surprise of everyone, there was considerable applause from some of the members. But the regents of the university were there as one and carried the Doctor to the two large trees near the entrance to the dining room and asked him to speak to them. He seemed incoherent and said he thought he was going, but when John Francis Neylan whispered to him that it was only red wine, the Doctor recovered consciousness, sat up, and exclaimed ‘Bless your soul, Jack, and I prefer white.’” The Grove’s huge outdoor pipe organ is described in great detail in the article titled “THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE GROVE,” here is an excerpt: “The Grove Organ is, to the best of our knowledge, one of only three outdoor organs in the world. It…claims the title as the second largest of the open air music makers…. “It has been estimated that the Grove Great Organ contains enough electrical wire that if laid end to end would gird the earth four and one half times; enough select, first grade lumber to build fine furniture for forty-five large houses; enough first quality leather to make over one thousand pair of delicate ladies’ kid gloves; and enough rare metals, particularly tin, to make metal window frames for an entire thirteen story city office building.” Here is an excerpt from “BOHEMIA REMEMBERED”: “It is impossible to describe the Bohemian Grove to anyone who has not been there. And that, perhaps, is one of the secrets of the Grove’s rare charm. It is almost as if some magic spell binds the tongues of returning visitors. I tried, a few times after being a guest there, to tell Outer-Earthlings what I had seen and done and drunk and eaten, but I soon gave it up because a mere cataloguing of experiences turned out to be bleakly inadequate. And, besides, none of them believed me in the first place…. “....The goings on at Field Circle were equally varied and enchanting; a high point was the Low Jinks production, Thrice Knightly, in which Joe Knowland’s portrayal of Bert the Beaut combined the stumpy charms of Toulouse-Lautrec with the sawed-off bumptiousness of O. Soglow’s Little King, supported by a company of transvestite bawds and venereal varlets, all to the tunes of Les Brown and his band.” In addition to the errors indicated in brackets above, this first edition of Volume V of THE ANNALS OF THE BOHEMIAN CLUB has typographical errors on pages 12, 85, 135, 163, 181, 232, 247, 362, and 418, which should add to its value. A chance to own an exceedingly rare book that has political, corporate, academic, artistic, musical, and theatrical connections through its source the Bohemian Club. Condition: Excelent-. Some
notes written in columns. Clean pages. Bright gilding. http://item.express.ebay.com/Books_Antiquarian-Collectible-Books__BOHEMIAN-CLUB-ANNALS-Grove-1-8-Complete-Set-1898-1997_W0QQitemZ290080398534QQihZ019QQddnZBooksQQadnZAntiquarianQ20Q26Q20CollectibleQ20BooksQQptdi |
