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because IF they HAD sold it they wd/
have made a commission,
which was jeopardized by the gift to the
S.Kensington AFTER it had been placed on sale with the (small)
Fry. and the Cave of the Golden Calf, probably also an outpost for
espionage.
The celebrities given honorary membership, but
the income from guardsmen who might in cups have said something.
Don't think it amounted to much as help to the enemy.
and was, nacherly, the only night club (one of the first in London)
which impovrished artists cd/ get into.
Middle european acumen
as to advertising value of Mr. Epstein, Frank Harris etc.
you cd/ even get eats for free if you took 'em at Frieda's table.
Vague rumor that she got copped in N.Y., at any rate
spurloss verschwinden, during that first so surprising unpleasantness,
more brains than Gertie or Amy put together.
Augustus John Sd/ to have been
insulted when she suggested he take a bath /
principle of bagno
ante scortun,
vs. scortum ante mortem.
Travel broadens the mind."
Frieda, who was the playwright's third wife, had gotten Epstein
to do some striking columns for her place, and Lewis painted some
startling murals for her. In a letter to his mother of November,
1913, Pound complained that "a bloody guardsman" had removed
his hat from the Cave cloakroom. 16
The Strindberg relict later
moved her club to Beak Street, and renamed it, less dramatically,
the Cabaret Club.
Pound, always conjuring up new projects, announced in The
Egoist of November 2, 1914, that a new college of the arts would
soon open its doors. He listed himself, Gaudier-Brzeska, Wyndham
Lewis, and Arnold Dolmetsch respectively as heads of ateliers of
Poetry, Sculpture, Drawing and Ancient Music. But, as H. Glenn
Hughes comments, "Of course it was only a dream, born of full