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The Cosmopolitan Club is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Located at 122 East 66th Street, east of Park Avenue, it was founded as a women's club and remains a club exclusively for women to this day. Members have included Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jean Stafford, Helen Hayes, Pearl Buck, Marian Anderson, Margaret Mead, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. ==History== In 1909, a club for governesses named itself the Cosmos Club and leased space in the Gibson building on East 33rd Street.〔("A Short History of The Cosmopolitan Club," ) Cosmopolitan Club website.〕 This group became, in 1910, the Women's Cosmopolitan Club, "organized," according to the ''New York Times,'' "for the benefit of New York women interested in the arts, sciences, education, literature, and philanthropy or in sympathy with those interested." 〔"Behind the Scenes with Author Shaw," ''New York Times,'' April 7, 1910.〕 On March 22, 1911 the club was formally incorporated,〔"New Club for New York Women," ''New York Times,'' March 22, 1911.〕 with Helen Gilman Brown as its president.〔("A Short History of The Cosmopolitan Club," ) Cosmopolitan Club website.〕 The other six founding members were Mrs. V. Everett Macy, Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt, Mrs. Albert Herter, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. E.R. Hewitt, and Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick.〔Geoffrey T. Hellman, ("The Talk of the Town: Tea With Mrs. Hendrick" ), ''The New Yorker'', June 22, 1957, p. 18〕 Dues were twenty dollars a year. Early joiners were novelists Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow, violinist Kathleen Parlow, sculptor Anna Hyatt, dancer Adeline Genee, Grace Dodge, and Elizabeth Clift Bacon Custer, widow of General Custer. In 1913 club members put on "An Evening in a Persian Garden," with snake dancers and readings of Persian verse. The success of this fête led to an increase in membership; in 1914, the club moved to larger quarters uptown at 44th Street and Lexington Avenue, and the name was shortened to the Cosmopolitan Club. By 1917, the Cosmopolitan Club had six hundred members, with another four hundred on its waiting list.〔"Cosmopolitan Club Buys 2 Houses," ''New York Times,'' February 22, 1917.〕 In December of that year, the club put on an exhibition of paintings by Pablo Picasso.〔Michael C. Fitzgerald, (''Picasso and American Art''. )〕 Guest speakers in that era included poets Amy Lowell, Vachel Lindsay, and Siegfried Sassoon, educator Maria Montessori, and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. In 1932, the club moved further uptown to its current home, a ten-story brick building with wrought-iron balconies, designed by the architect Thomas Harlan Ellett, situated on 66th Street between Park and Lexington across the street from the Seventh Regiment Armory. The new building won the Architectural League's gold medal in 1932 〔(Thomas Harlan Ellett Collection ), University of Pennsylvania.〕 with the comment ‘A fresh and personal interpretation beautiful in its simplicity of form and material’, and had twenty-five guest rooms.〔"High Quality Marks East Side Building," ''New York Times,'' November 20, 1932.〕 Visiting musicians included Sergei Prokofiev, Nadia Boulanger, Count Basie, and Lotte Lenya; other invited luminaries were Robert Frost, Dorothy Thompson, and Edward R. Murrow. Currently the club offers, according to its website, a place for women to "nourish their intellects; exercise their artistic impulses; cultivate friends; and freely exchange ideas."〔("History of the Cosmopolitan Club," ) Cosmopolitan Club website.〕 Blue jeans and running shoes aren't allowed.〔("General Information," ) Cosmopolitan Club website.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cosmopolitan Club (New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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