Pen Club events at Reid Hall

Information from Comoedia, except where another publication is specified:

  • November 8, 1922, p. 6: Pen Club dinner honoring English writer Israel Zangwill and Italian novelist Sibilla Aleram
  • Journal des debats politiques et litteraires, November 10, 1922, p. 4: Pen Club had dinner honoring Sibilla Aleramo to celebrate the French translation of her book The Passage by Pierre-Paul Plan
  • December 16, 1922, p. 6: Pen Club giving dinner in honor of Stanislavski, director of art theater of Moscow; also for Andre Antoine, Jacques Copeau, and Pitoeff
  • Le Journal, May 14, 1923, p.4, Mme la comtesse de Noailles presided over Pen Club dinner in honor of Belgian literature. Le Figaro, May 12, 1923, p.3: Pen Club dinner, presided over by Comtesse de Noailles in honor of Belgian literature; assisting her are Georges Eekhoud, Gregoire Le Roy, Cyriel Buysse, Hubert Krains, Frantz Hellens, Louis Pierard, Roger Limbosch, Maurice des Ombiaux.
  • November 19, 1923, p. 2: Pen Club dinner honoring American novelist and essayist Waldo Frank, poet Ezra Pound, and Russian novelist Alexander Kouprine
  • June 17, 1924, p. 4: Pen Club dinner featuring German poet Fritz von Unruh, also Emmanuele di Castelbarco of Milan, director of Bottega di Poesia, who talked about the diffusion of French books in Italy, and G.A. Borgese, novelist, dramaturg, and literary critic for the Corriere della Sera
  • January 31, 1924, p.3: Pen Club dinner with tables of honor: Leon Balzagete, Charles du Bos, Maurice Donzel, Andre Maurois, Andre Pierre, and Boris de Schlözer – dinner was run by Russian authors Leon Chestov, Remizov, Boris Zaitsoff, Mme Damansky; German writers Fritz von Unruh and Rene Schickele; British novelist Garnett who wrote Lady into Fox, translated by Maurois into French
  • October 27, 1924, p.2: Pen Club dinner honoring Luigi Pirandello, also one in April 1923
  • January 29, 1925, p.3: Pen Club dinner presided over by Czech-German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, American novelist Sinclair Lewis, South American novelist Manuel Bueno, and M. Arossiev, Russian intellectual attaché in Paris
  • Paris Soir, September 27, 1926, p.2: Pen Club dinner honoring American novelist Theodore Dreiser and Hungarian critic Charles Sebestyen, author of numerous translations and studies of French writers
  • January 28, 1927, p.2: Pen Club dinner, president was poet Auguste Dorchain; poet Edmond Pasquier spoke on “Leon Dierx” and Mlle Robiane spoke on the Odeon and Mlle G. Briffault (of the Athenee) and M. Brunaud talked about masterworks

  • Les Nouvelles litteraires, February 5, 1927, p.2: Pen Club dinner honoring Sherwood Anderson, Richard la Gallienne, Anna Wickane, Italian novelist Luciano Zuccoli, and Czech novelist Hermann Ungar

  • February 6, 1927, p.2: Charles Clerc would give a Pen Club presentation, “Autour du romantisme une inconnue de Musset”
  • March 12, 1927, p.2: Pen Club dinner honoring British novelist H.G. Wells, Italian dramaturg Luigi Chiarelli (author of Masque et Visage), Russian dramaturg Nicholas Evreinoff (author of Comedie du Bonheur), and Swedish essayist Marika Stjerstedt

  • Le Temps, March 19, 1927, p.6: Pen Club lunch hosted by H.G. Wells at RH- also there Swedish novelist Marika Stjernstedt, Italian writer Luigi Chiarelli, and Russian dramaturg Nicholas Evreinof (sp?) 

  • Paris Soir, March 26, 1927, p.2: Pen Club event: Fortune Stronski presents the work of Rene Bruyez and other texts: scenes or poems will be played or said by Mme Gisele Picard, Fanny Robiane, and from l’Atelier, Lucienne Morand and Yorska & Arnoel

  • May 21, 1927, p.2: upcoming Pen Club dinner- president Auguste Dorchain; Edmond Pasquier would speak about poet Pierre-Henry Proust
  • October 31, 1927, p.2: Pen Club dinner with honored invitees: English dramaturg, Herman Ould, secretary general of the Pen Club in London, Italian novelist Umberto Fracchia, director of the great Milanese literary magazine La Fiera Letteraria, Italian essayist Curzio Malaparte (who theorized the ideology of fascism), and the sporty American novelist Ernest Hemingway
  • Paris Soir, January 17, 1928, p.2: Pen Club dinner honoring writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Polish poet and essayist Boy-Zelenski, translator of Moliere, Montesquieu, Balzac, etc.
  • January 12, 1929, p.3: Pen Club dinner in honor of Spanish writer Eugenio d’Ors
  • April 3, 1929, p. 3: Pen Club dinner honoring Leonhard Frank, German novelist and dramaturg- his books were translated into French and his work Carl and Anna was being performed at the Theater of the Avenue
  • March 19, 1930, p. 3: Pen Club dinner, presided by Andre Maurois; in honor of Emil Ludwig, Waclaw Sieroszewski, and Ramon Gomez de la Serna
  • June 10, 1930, p.3: Pen Club dinner honoring: Argentine novelist, Hugo Vast, Arturo Loria, Marc Aldenov, Cyril Zaitzev, Hodassevitch. Le Figaro, June 10, 1930, p. 5: Pen Club dinner president over by Edmond Jaloux; honoring Argentine novelist Hugo Vast, Russian writers Marc Aldanov, Cyril Zaitsev, Hadassevitch and Italian singer Arturo Loria
  • Le Figaro, May 12, 1931, p. 5: Pen Club dinner honoring Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann
  • November 25, 1931, p.3:  Pen Club dinner presided by Luc Durtain; honoring essayist and novelist Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish ambassador to the U.S. as well as Brazilian poets Ronald de Carvalho and Ribeiro Couto
  • January 26, 1934, p.3: Pen Club dinner presided over by President Paul Valery; table of honor for Polish novelist Kaden-Brandowski, general secretary of Academy of Letters in Warsaw; two of his works were translated into French: My mother and my city AND The Alliance of Hearts
  • La Presse, November 14, 1934, p.3: Pen Club dinner presided over by Jules Romain; honoring Luigi Pirandello’s recent Nobel Prize win; H.G. Wells hoped to attend; German novelist Alfred Doblin, author of Wang-Son and Alexanderplatz, and Victor Eftimiu, were also honored.
  • La Presse, March 9, 1935, p.3: Pen Club dinner, presided over by Jean-Richard Bloch; honoring German novelists Ernst Toller and Ernst Erich Noth as well as Romanian novelist and dramaturg Victor Eftimiu, president of Pen Club Bucharest 
  • December 27, 1935, p.3: Pen Club dinner honoring Soviet poets Alexander Besymensky, Ilya Selvinsky, Vladimir Lou

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