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The Hustvedt Sisters Dinner to Honor Ocean Explorer

Illness as Metaphor Members won’t want to miss a fascinating Science and Technology On June 16, literary sisters Asti Hustvedt and Siri Hustvedt will Evening on Tuesday, June 14, featuring ocean explorer David discuss themes that inform their work: women, literature and the depiction Gallo, director of Special Projects at and treatment of hysteria in modern the Woods Hole Oceanographic times. Asti is a well known scholar of Institution. Dr. Gallo has led French literature and Siri is a expeditions of all the oceans, most renowned novelist, essayist, and art recently to map the entire debris field critic. (cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; $30) of the Titanic and to locate the wreckage of Air France 447 In Siri Hustvedt’s bestselling novel, (cocktails, 6 p.m.; $80). What I Loved, a young woman The earth’s last great frontier, oceans working on a thesis about hysteria in Paris 19th century inspires her lover’s are almost entirely unexplored and introduce the audience to this poorly understood, yet they hold unfamiliar, important and sometimes paintings. Asti Hustved’s new book, Medical Muses: Hysteria in precious clues to our origins, magical world beneath the sea.

Nineteenth-Century Paris, is a evolution and destiny. Dr. Gallo will (continued on page 8) nonfiction look at hysteria during this same period, presenting a fascinating study of three young female hysterics New Club Directors Elected who shaped our early notions of psychology. In addition, Siri’s memoir, The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves, is a memoir of

her own struggle with a nervous disorder.

Siri will also read from her latest novel, The Summer Without Men, which Kirkus Reviews calls “Lighthearted but not lightweight – a smart, sassy reflection on the varieties of female experience.”

Renée F. Summer ’97 and Peter A. Cheney ’04 were chosen as new Celebrate! Class of 2014 directors in the Club elections on May 2. Ms. Summer currently Will Barnet’s chairs the Membership Committee; Mr. Cheney serves on the Finance, th Membership and Reciprocal Clubs committees. Incumbent directors Audrey 100 Birthday S. Amdursky, Patrick Frawley and Irwin Jacobs were re-elected to the Tuesday, June 7 Class of 2014; and incumbent officers were re-elected: Anne Russell, Call now for reservations: president; Michael D. Yon and Jonathan D. Rabinowitz, 1st and 2nd vice 212-737-7100, ext 439 presidents, respectively; Paul F. Jock, II, secretary; and John Sussek, treasurer. (Photo by John J. McGrath) N E W S A N D N O T E S

A Note to Members Welcome to

by Anne Russell, President the Club Marilynn J. Goldsmith (Resident), nd May 2 was an outstanding evening since 1952. As the discussion Associate Broker, Stribling and at the Club. It was election night, and continued, Meg asked about Dr. Associates, New York City. we had an exceptional turnout of Gabrilove’s children, and was proudly Proposer: Susan K. Appel; Seconder: members who dutifully handed in told that his daughter, Dr. Janice Belinda Pokorny. their ballots and then proceeded to Gabrilove, was a noted oncologist have a fun evening with their friends. who has been a pioneer in the field of David H. Roman (Associate), Vice A very worthy Lenore Kelly received hematopoietic reconstitution. Ten President, Global Investment the Lotos Medal of Merit, and retiring years ago, Dr. Janice co-invented the Research Division at Goldman, Directors were thanked and new drug, Neupogen. “Have you ever Sachs, New York City. Memberships: Directors welcomed. Although I tried heard of Neupogen?” he asked. The Penn Club of New York City. hard to summarize the past year and Proposer: Diane Reynolds; Seconder: the successes of our committees and Her reply was stunning, for in Evelyn P. Bernstein. January, Meg’s daughter, “Little events, my words were pale when Donald R. Sack (Non-Resident A), compared with the actuality of the Meg,” had undergone a kidney transplant donated by her sister, Antiques dealer (semi-retired), life-force of Lotos which is our Skytop, PA. Memberships: Skytop membership. Chrissy. There were complications, and, due to an extremely low white Club. Proposer: Margaret B. Parkes; It’s not hard to understand why the blood cell count, the dangers of Seconder: Anne Russell. events at the Club are so distinctive. infection threatened the new kidney They are brought to you by members and Meg’s well-being. Enter Reminder: New Members’ Dinner who truly understand the concept of Neupogen! After just three excellence and strive to share their treatments her count was normal. My The Club’s annual New Members’ experience and insights with all of us. sister was astounded that she was Dinner, by invitation only, for I am constantly amazed by the skills speaking with a gentleman whose members who joined the Club and expertise represented at Lotos, daughter had probably saved her between September 2010 and and delighted with our members’ daughter’s quality of life. At Lotos, May 2011, will be held on June 15. commitment to participate as fully as there are only “Two Degrees of possible. Let’s keep this going, and Separation.” let’s keep working to attract new members who will share our ideas Our membership is extraordinary. and ideals. Come and enjoy this Club, which will be open throughout the summer, and A personal vignette: get to know your fellows members

My sister, Meg Brogan, has applied better as you meet them over the for membership in the Club, and had course of the (finally) warmer 5 East 66th Street her three personal interviews in May. months. And, as an aside, thank you New York, NY 10065 She was nervous, of course, until she to all who have made my first year as (212) 737-7100 started meeting the members who your president so memorable. (212) 737-9188 (fax) were charged with “sorting her out.” Remember – LOL (Lots of Lotos)! www.lotosclub.org She settled in and had what may come News & Notes close to being one of her most rewarding days in a long time, as she Club Holiday Executive Editor shared experiences and ideas with Stephenie Ralston three wonderful members of the The Lotos Club will be closed Design Editor Admissions Committee starting with on Monday, July 4, in observance Sharon Situ Norman Horowitz and Jacqueline of Independence Day. Aronson. Her last interview was with Bedrooms will be open Contributing Editor Dr. Lester Gabrilove, who has been a every day in June and July. Nancy Johnson most distinguished member of Lotos

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N E W S A N D N O T E S From the Archives “I am tremendously flattered but…”

by Nancy Johnson, Archivist Even at The Lotos Club, you can’t always get what you want. A file discovered in the Club archives holds letters from celebrities who were invited for festive “cocktail receptions” in the 1960s, but who replied with a polite “thanks, but no thanks.”

In October 1961, Noel Coward, whose play Sail Away had just opened on Broadway, wrote that he “felt very touched,” but said he would be in Jamaica. Barbara Bel Geddes, starring in Edward Albee’s black comedy, Everything in the Garden, begged off, saying that she was “neurotically” shy. “Any public appearance, however friendly and informal, is an agony of suffering to me,” she wrote to Lotos President Norris Harkness, concluding, “Forgive my frankness, but that’s the real reason, so why fib about ‘previous commitments’ or such.”

Although Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing sent her regrets in 1965, her successor, Ginger Rogers, was the Club’s guest later that year. Rogers was accompanied by Lotos member Peter Howard, who conducted the orchestra for the musical and coached said no in 1969, writing that his 1963, and had time for a “plentiful her in the role. But a later “Dolly,” schedule on the Tonight show, which buffet dinner in the men’s grill” Ethel Merman, begged off. “Miss was still being filmed in New York, before appearing in Photo Finish. Merman…follows a very rigorous conflicted with the early evening Other stars came for drinks, then ran and unvarying schedule on the days timing of the Lotos event. “It was back to Broadway for an evening when she must give a performance,” good of you to think of me,” he performance: Claudette Colbert, wrote the press representative for the wrote. starring in Marriage-Go-Round in play. 1960; Mary Martin in The Sound of But despite these celebrity Music in 1961; Jose Ferrer in 1964, Twenty-three-year-old Barbra declinations, Lotos still had a glowing when he starred in The Girl Who Streisand, already a star, made her list of cocktail party honorees during Came to Supper; Jessica Tandy and excuses in 1965, as did Danny Kaye. the sixties. A 1962 reception for Hume Cronyn, also in 1964, when Jackie Gleason was invited and never Anthony Quinn started early so that they appeared in The Physicists; and answered, but his Honeymooners co- he could get back to the theater in Angela Lansbury, star of Dear World star, Art Carney, had a Lotos time for the evening performance of in 1969. Stars have never been in reception in 1968. Johnny Carson Tchin- Tchin. Peter Ustinov came in short supply at The Lotos Club.

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A Review A Review

“Morning Joe” Two by Two by Tenn by Clifford Henderson III

Comes to Lotos Wow, what a wonderful night it was eulogium, excerpting his upcoming by Robert Ravitz at the Club on Monday, May 16th! A book, Follies of God, which draws from his friendship with the Joe Scarborough, co-host of TV’s gentle rain cloaked a waxing gibbous playwright, beginning with a five-day “Morning Joe,” and former Florida moon in a vestigial seaport mist. Here Republican congressman, delivered a at Lotos, a hair before the Hare’s full lunch in 1982, and filled out subsequently over the next two stimulating political analysis to a moon of May, the seeds of excellence decades by following the writerly packed house of Lotosians, followed continued to be sown. encouragements and loving advice of by a provocative Q and A. “Two by Two by Tenn,” a production Mr. Williams to “drop a memory.” of the Special Events Committee, was Mr. Scarborough bemoans the poisonous partisanship in Congress, an extraordinarily engaging and Following closely, the lovely and contrasting it to the friendship of thoughtful presentation of Tennessee powerful Jessica Hecht gave us a President Reagan and Speaker Williams’ excerpted works, compiled harrowing Lucretia from Portrait of a O’Neill, despite their political and directed by Joan Vail Thorne. Madonna. The brilliant Reed Birney differences. To ameliorate the Performing for the evening were the brought a sublime intensity to Tom’s current contentious climate, he beautiful and acclaimed actor Jessica narration from The Glass Menagerie. advocates term limits – four terms Hecht, the outstanding and renowned In memorable conclusion, Reed and for the House, two terms for the actor Reed Birney, and the exciting Jessica delivered a candescent and estimable writer James Grissom. stichomythic duet with I Can’t Senate. He regards as unimpressive the current crop of potential In the Library the stage was Imagine Tomorrow/Dragon Country. Republican presidential candidates, set…bright lights on; a quietly elegant Their endearing dialogue was so believes that Romney will get the and refined crowd of Lotosians had exquisitely considered by its author nomination, and that Obama will be been seated, programs in hand. White and so tautly played as to be at times re-elected. He regards the rising costs magnolias and Spanish moss loomed one voice/one soul and a polished of Medicare to be the greatest threat stage left magnificently large—a mirror before us. Curtain…and on to to our economy. The “math” is scion of New Orleans. fine cuisine and animated conversation with our guests in the obvious, but he sees no present th evidence of a political compromise Mr. Grissom opened the event with a Ballroom. Happy 100 birthday, Mr. to arrest escalating costs. voice full of music, requiem and Williams.

He believes Pakistan is a very A Review frightening country, but said that we cannot walk away because, if we do, April Gornik Art Evening China will exacerbate the situation. by James L. Freeman, Art Committee Chair

This was a prescient observation, as On May 12, the Art Committee Ms. Gornik spoke articulately on one the next morning it was disclosed hosted a dinner honoring April of her favorite subjects, “visual that China plans to provide fighter Gornik with the Lotos Award of literacy,” eliciting a lively question jets to Pakistan. Distinction. The works of Ms. and answer session. Numerous

Finally, as Obama is mistrusted by Gornik, a highly talented land- and examples of her work were shown, many Israelis, Mr. Scarborough seascape painter of significant note, and attendees expressed their questioned the wisdom of Obama’s hang at the Metropolitan Museum appreciation of its beauty as well taking a position on borders at this and the Museum of Modern Art in as Ms. Gornik’s ability to explain the time. New York City; Fort Worth MOMA; emotional and physical process of The High Museum in Atlanta; and creating it. As an added treat, Mika Brzezinski, The Women’s Museum of America Mr. Scarborough’s co-TV host, and The National Museum in Thanks to Holli Gersh for bringing graced the Club with her presence. Washington, DC, among many April Gornik’s work to the attention others. of the Art Committee.

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Chef’s Summer Tables Table Talk

Chef Raymond Hollanda’s Summer Tables in June will take place every Monday in July and August. Thursday, 2 The Chef will prepare a special menu paired with wines, Poetry Talk Table, 11:30 a.m. and will chat with members about the meal during the dinner. Attendees will examine poems that The themes of the Chef’s Tables will coincide with special reflect poets’ needs to comfort biweekly menus that will be offered during the summer. themselves by believing in a force or spirit beyond their experience. July 11 and July 18 Belinda Pokorny will lead the group France (Remember, Bastille Day is on 7/14) in a discussion of poems by Emily (special French menu 7/11 through 7/22) Dickinson, Percy Shelley, e. e. cummings, John Keats, Mary Oliver, July 25 and August 1 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Spain (special Spanish menu 7/25 through 8/5) Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Theodore Roethke. August 8 and August 15 Mediterranean Soul (Maghreb, Middle Eastern) Monday, 6 (special Mediterranean menu 8/8 through 8/19) Theatre Round Table, 6 p.m. The group will explore the connection August 22 and August 29 between passion, atmosphere and Italy (special Italian menu 8/22 through 9/1) words. Gail VanVoorhis will lead a discussion of works including Picnic; Ah, Wilderness; Arcadia; A Little Summer Film Festival at Lotos Night Music; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Pajama Game; and A Midsummer

Night’s Dream. Classic Screwball Comedy Tuesday, 21

History Table, 11:30 a.m. Mark your calendar now to attend the David N. Schwartz will lead a Club’s popular summer film festival. discussion on The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran by Charles Tuesday, July 26 His Gal Friday (1940) Kurzman.

Editor tries to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Tuesday, 21 Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy Married at Lotos, 7 p.m. Directed by Howard Hawks Lotos members and their spouses who

celebrated their marriages at Lotos Tuesday, August 2 Bringing Up Baby (1938) (engagement parties, rehearsal A paleontologist winds up in various predicaments dinners, ceremonies, receptions) will involving a woman with a unique sense of logic meet and dine together in the Grill and a leopard named Baby. Room. Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant Directed by Howard Hawks Wednesday, 22 Art Table, 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 9 The Awful Truth (1937) Nancy Hall-Duncan will moderate a Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin discussion on Rogues Gallery: The divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed each other’s attempt to find a new romance. and Betrayals That Made The Starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Metropolitan Museum of Art by Molly Lamont and Ralph Bellamy Michael Gross. An unauthorized look Directed by Leo McCarey (continued on page 7)

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Lotos Club Honorees – 2010-2011

Art Committee Program Committee

Brooke Anderson – deputy director for curatorial planning, Paula Butturini – author, Keeping The Feast Richard A. Clarke – expert on homeland, national and Los Angeles County Museum of Art Alice Levi Duncan – director, Gerald Peters Gallery cyber security as well as counter terrorism April Gornik – artist Michael Gross – author, Rogues’ Gallery and 740 Park Elizabeth Hammer – Chinese painting specialist, Christie’s Peter Rosenblatt – lawyer and former ambassador James Watt – Brooke Astor Chairman of Asian Art, Neal Shapiro – president and CEO, WNET Metropolitan Museum of Art David Steiner – New York Port Authority commissioner Frank Wisner – former ambassador, expert on the Middle East and South and East Asia Club-Sponsored

William Cohan – a former senior Wall Street M&A Public Affairs Committee

investment banker and author, House of Cards David Brooks – journalist, The New York Times Geoffrey O'Brien – editor-in-chief, Gretchen Morgenson – assistant business and financial The Library of America editor and columnist at The New York Times Richard Peña – program director, Film Society of Raymond Odierno – commander, U.S. Joint Lincoln Center; associate professor of film; film critic Forces Command Ron Powers – author, Mark Twain: A Life Joe Scarborough – news and talk radio host Raymond Tanter – founder, Iran Policy Committee Library Committee Science and Technology Committee Curtis Kendrick – university dean for libraries and information resources, The City University of New York Douglas Blonsky – president and administrator, Kenneth Soehner – chief librarian, Thomas J. Central Park Conservancy Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art David Gallo – oceanographer and director of Special Ann Thornton – director for reference and research Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution services, New York Public Library Bill Moggridge – director, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Literary Committee Joel Schwartz – author, Darwin’s Disciple Bonnie Taub-Dix – nutrition and diet expert Trevor Corson – author, The Secret Life of Lobsters Edward Eigen – Princeton University architectural Special Events Committee

historian and scholar Reed Birney – actor Edith Grossman – author, Why Translation Matters James Grissom – author, Follies of God John Hudson – Shakespearean scholar and Jessica Hecht – actress theatrical producer Siri Hustvedt – novelist, essayist, and art critic State Dinner Committee Asti Hustvedt – cultural historian James Kelly – former managing editor, Time magazine Ben Gazzara – actor Celia Lee – co-author, The Churchills: A Family Portrait Alan Gilbert – music director, New York Philharmonic John Lee – co-author, The Churchills: A Family Portrait Maya Lin – artist and architect

Adam Ross – author, Mr. Peanut Michael Brenson – art critic, scholar and teacher Alessandra Stanley – TV critic for The New York Times Paul Goldberger – architecture critic and Simon VanBooy – author, Love Begins in Winter writer, The New Yorker Susan Wolfson – professor of English at Ara Guzelimian – provost and dean, The Juilliard School Princeton University John Martello – executive director, The Players Club Zarin Mehta – president and executive director, Music Committee The New York Philharmonic Lisa Phillips – director, New Museum of Contemporary Art Ryan Brown – conductor and artistic director, Bartlett Sher – director, South Pacific revival Opera Lafayette Gay Talese – author

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Lotosians in The Creation of Livres d’Artistes the Spotlight by Susan K. Appel, Library Committee Chair Dave Brubeck will appear at the The Library Committee is very The books represent collaborations by Blue Note in New York City on June pleased to provide a rare opportunity artists and authors who were brought 13, 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 23 at 12 noon for together by a publisher. members to hear about the creation of Fay Gold was recently named one of a limited edition Livre d’Artiste (a the fifty people – the only one from French tradition). Entitled The Reed, Summer Soirees the art world – “who made Atlanta in the book contains interpretations by Before departing for vacation the last fifty years.” Atlanta magazine fifteen artists and features Divan-E- destinations, members are invited held a celebration for the fifty honrees Shams, poetry by Rumi (1207-1273), to celebrate the new season. on May 28. a Persian poet and intellectual. Early Summer Cocktail Party

Clifford Henderson III was selected Artist Joan Busing, a friend of Thursday, June 9 this year as one of a very few Belinda Pokorny, publisher Vincent Midsummer Cocktail Party designers to put together a “vignette” FitzGerald and scholar/translator Thursday, July 7 for the Grange’s new collection show Zahra Partovi will give a presenta- Late Summer Cocktail Party on in April. Mr. Henderson’s current Thursday, August 11. tion about their collaboration. inspiration is “The New Victorians,” 6 to 7:30 p.m.; $25 for members; expressing his view that the Victorian At 2:30 p.m., after lunch at the Club, attendees will walk to The Grolier complimentary for guests Age was the last great cultural (a maximum of three per member) renaissance. He wants to bring back Club to see the exhibition, The Best of Both Worlds: Finely Printed Livres ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the time “when art, literature and philosophy led the way.” d’Artistes, 1910-2010. The exhibition Lotos by the Sea, a spectacular spotlights seventy-seven books, seafood cocktail party, will be held Tom Wolfe is the 2011 recipient of including The Reed, whose art and on Wednesday, July 27 from 6 to 8 the American Society of Magazine memorable texts are matched by their p.m. ($50) typographic and design excellence. Editors Creative Excellence Award. (For reservations, call the Club The artists included range from Picasso, Braque and Matisse to office,(212) 737-7100, ext. 439. June Talk Tables Dubuffet, Clement and Kentridge. (continued from page 5)

inside the nation’s greatest museum, CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP the book covers the entire history of the Met and focuses on its most The following candidates await consideration. Confidential comments colorful characters—J. Pierpont concerning these candidates are solicited and should be addressed to the chair of the Committee on Admissions. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Hoving, Philippe de CANDIDATE CLASSIFICATION PROPOSER/ Montebello and Diana Vreeland, SECONDER among others. This irresistible read exposes the Met’s intriguing and Margaret M. Brogan Non-Resident B Anne Russell often provocative past. All are Homemaker, Volunteer John Sussek welcome—art novice to art Chatham, MA professional. Judith G. Raymo Resident William A. Johnson Wednesday, 29 Adjunct Professor of Education Carol Sager Finance Table, 6 p.m. New York City Simon Lorne will moderate a discussion on “Inflation or Deflation: Cynthia D. Sculco Resident Donald O. Quest Where Are We and Where Are We Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing John Sussek Going?” New York City

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Policy Changes LOTOS EVENTS AT A GLANCE

Legacy Program For reservations, please call (212) 737-7100. For children, grandchildren, nieces, JUNE nephews, step-children and step- Thursday, 2 Poetry Talk Table with Belinda Pokorny grandchildren and all of their Monday, 6 Theatre Round Table with Gail Van Voorhis spouses (ages 21-35) of current or Tuesday, 7 Art Dinner in honor of Will Barnet deceased members, the initiation fee Thursday, 9 Early Summer Cocktail Party is waived; for those 36-45, it is 50%. Monday, 13 ABT Evening, The Bright Stream Resident Initiation Fee Tuesday, 14 Science & Technology Evening with David Gallo New members may now choose to Wednesday, 15 New Members’ Dinner (by invitation) pay initiation fees of $5,000 or more Thursday, 16 Literary Lecture with Siri and Asti Hustvedt on a payment schedule. Tuesday, 21 History Table with David N. Schwartz Tuesday, 21 Married at Lotos Table in the Grill Non-Resident A and B Initiation Fee Wednesday, 22 Art Table with Nancy Hall-Duncan The initiation fee for new members Thursday, 23 Grolier Club Library Tour in these categories is waived for a Wednesday, 29 Finance Table with Simon Lorne limited time.

JULY Monday, 4 Independence Day. Club closed, bedrooms open New Artwork Wednesday, 6 Shakespeare at the Armory, As You Like It Thursday, 7 Midsummer Cocktail Party Friday, 22 Shakespeare at the Armory, The Winter’s Tale on Display A bronze sculpture, Walking Woman by Tuesday, 26 Summer Film Festival, His Gal Friday Wednesday, 27 Lotos by the Sea Cocktail Party Gaston Lachaise, will be on display Thursday, 28 Shakespeare at the Armory, Julius Caesar near the Members’ Lounge during July and August. This classic piece measures 19 inches high, and members and AUGUST guests can enjoy viewing it courtesy of Tuesday, 2 Summer Film Festival, Bringing Up Baby Alice Levi Duncan and the Gerald Wednesday, 3 Shakespeare at the Armory, Romeo and Juliet Peters Gallery. Tuesday, 9 Summer Film Festival, The Awful Truth Wednesday, 10 Shakespeare at the Armory, King Lear Born in Paris, Gaston Lachaise (1882- Thursday, 11 Late Summer Cocktail Party 1935) used his father's woodworking Friday, 26 Club closed, bedrooms open tools to make carvings before he was old enough to attend school. He began his artistic career as a designer of art nouveau decorative objects for the David Gallo Lotos is Reading French jeweler René Lalique. Although (continued from page 1) Susan Appel recommends The Hare he was a promising student, he fell in A high-definition video will illuminate with Amber Eyes by Edmund de love with Isabel Dutaud Nagle and gave recent and startling discoveries. Today, Waal, the story of the Ephrussis up his place at the Académie Nationale new robots, submarines, cameras and family, once one of the most des Beaux-Arts to move to Boston. other sensors allow us to explore the powerful European banking families. oceans with unprecedented clarity and Edmund inherits a collection of Lachaise's most famous work, Standing accuracy. There is growing evidence netsuke (miniature Japanese Woman (1932), typifies the image that that biogenesis is occurring each and sculptures) and sets out to find out Lachaise worked and reworked: a every day at the bottom of the sea. more about his family by tracing the female with sinuous, tapered limbs. ownership of the collection back to But he was also known as a brilliant Dr. Gallo has lectured extensively, his great-great uncle Charles, who portraitist, and he executed busts of nationally and internationally, and has famous artists and literary celebrities. been featured on numerous television was a Renoir patron and served as ARTnews called Lachaise the “greatest programs, including Larry King Live, the model for the Proust character American sculptor of his time.” and on Bloomberg TV, PBS and Swann in Remembrance of Things MSNBC. Past.

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The Lotos Club THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR

Five East Sixty-sixth Street Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 JUNE 2011 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR JULY 1 2 3 4 Wednesday, 6 Theater Evening, As You Like It Meeting of the Thursday,7 Midsummer Cocktail Party Poetry Talk Table Directory Friday, 22 Theater Evening, The Winter’s Tale Belinda Pokorny Tuesday, 26 Movie Night, His Gal Friday 6 p.m. 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, 27 Lotos by the Sea Cocktail Party Beef Wellington Lobster Night Bouillabaisse Thursday, 28 Theater Evening, Julius Caesar & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters)

5 6 Theatre Round 7 8 9 Literary 10 11 Table, Gail Committee, 5:30 p.m. VanVoorhis, 6 p.m. State Dinner Early Summer Governance Art Evening, Committee Cocktail Party Will Barnet 6-7:30 p.m. Committee, 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m.

6:30 p.m. Lobster Night Honey-Mustard Beef Wellington Glazed Brisket Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Bouillabaisse

Foundation 12 13 ABT Evening 14 15 16 17 18 The Bright Stream Board, 6 p.m. Literary Lecture,

4:30 p.m. Science and Siri Hustvedt and New Members’ Technology Evening, Asti Hustvedt Public Affairs Dinner David Gallo 6:30 p.m. Committee, 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Honey-Mustard Beef Wellington Lobster Night Glazed Brisket Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Bouillabaisse

Library Tour, History Talk Grolier Club 19 20 21 Table, 11:30 a.m. 22 23 24 25 12 noon Finance Art Talk Table House Committee Committee on Committee, 6 p.m. Nancy Hall-Duncan and Dinner Admissions 6 p.m. Married at Lotos 6 p.m. and Dinner, 6 p.m.

Talk Table, 7 p.m. Honey-Mustard Beef Wellington Lobster Night Glazed Brisket Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Bouillabaisse DINING HOURS:

26 27 28 29 30 Monday through Friday Finance Talk Table Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. Meeting of the Simon Lorne Monday through Friday Directory and Dinner 6 p.m. Dinner 6 to 9 p.m.

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Glazed Brisket Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Call (212) 737-7100

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Five East Sixty-sixth Street Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 JULY 2011 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

DINING HOURS: MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR AUGUST 2 Monday through Friday Monday, 1 Chef’s Table in the Grill, Spain Thursday, 11 Late Summer Cocktail Party Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, 2 Film Festival, Bringing Up Baby Monday, 15 Chef’s Table in the Grill, Monday through Friday Wednesday, 3 Theater Evening, Romeo and Juliet Mediterranean Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, 8 Chef’s Table in the Grill, Mediterranean Monday, 22 Chef’s Table in the Grill, Italy Reservations Tuesday, 9 Film Festival, The Awful Truth Monday, 29 Chef’s Table in the Grill, Italy Call (212) 737-7100 Wednesday, 10 Theater Evening, King Lear Bouillabaisse

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Independence Theater Evening Midsummer Day As You Like It Cocktail Party Club closed, 6-7:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Bedrooms open Beef Wellington Lobster Night Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Bouillabaisse

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Chef’s Table in the Grill Theater Evening France The Winter’s Tale

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Chef’s Table Lotos By the Sea Theater Evening in the Grill Film Festival Cocktail Party Julius Caesar Spain His Gal Friday 6-8 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

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