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Yes, The Masquers Club is still alive today! Visit their web site www.masquersclub.org |
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THE MASQUER'S CLUB Following the tradition of the famed New York clubs for male stage actors and their associates, such as The Lambs, founded in 1874 by Henry Montague, and The Players, founded by Edwin Booth in 1888, Masquers Club was founded in Hollywood in 1925. It would play a most important role in the founding of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933. "We Laugh to Win" was their motto, and laugh these good fellows did, along with talking, eating, drinking, smoking, and game-playing in their clubhouse at 1765 N. Sycamore. Many Masquers were longtime members of The Lambs, The Players, or both. They put on performances called "Revels" with gusto: for example, where else in Hollywood could one see Frank Morgan as blustery Colonel Claghorne, with his brother, Ralph Morgan, as Frank's pure and sweet virginal daughter (yes, daughter) Breeze, in the "Pride of the Claghornes" sketch from Frank's Broadway hit, The Bandwagon? |
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This Gallery is an condensed sample version of the Edgar Kennedy Gallery included on our RKO Comedy Series CD. It is arranged with sections that feature: The Masquers Club Home The Masquers Club Memorabilia The Masquers Club Filmography |
