Dawn and Dusk Club
Any information on the Dawn and Dusk Club will be gratefully received.
" ... centred around the Bulletin group of artists and writers, and named after a book by one of its founders, Victor Daley (Dawn and Dusk, pub. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, July, 1898 to glowing reviews).
"Foundation members of the Dawn and Dusk Club ('the Duskers'), formed around September, 1898, were Daly, Fred J Broomfield, Philp, Herbert Low (journalist), William Bede Melville, Bertram Stevens and Randolph Bedford. It was formed at Broomfield's home on the corner of Ice Road and Great Barcom Street, Darlinghurst, near St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Edwin Brady says the Dawn to Dusk Club's places of rendezvous were Giovanni's wine cellar, Paris House, the Coolalta, Pfahlert's Hotel, Joe Power's, and the Hole-in-the-Wall. (He wrote: 'The place was largely determined by purse; French menu and wine when the going was good, biscuits and beer when the ghost limped rather than walked.')
"Lawson created the motto: 'Roost high and crow low'. Lawson's sometime friend, poet John Le Gay Brereton had nothing to do with it, thinking they were just a bunch of drunks. Truth magazine publisher John Norton called them 'a band of boozy, bar-bumming bards'. Daley was elected Symposiarch of the Duskers and the seven 'heptarchs' were Henry Lawson, Stevens, sculptor Nelson Ilingworth, Frank P Mahony, George Augustine Taylor, Con Lindsay (journalist), and Philp, later commercial editor of the Brisbane Courier. Philp drafted the rules."
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" ... centred around the Bulletin group of artists and writers, and named after a book by one of its founders, Victor Daley (Dawn and Dusk, pub. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, July, 1898 to glowing reviews).
"Foundation members of the Dawn and Dusk Club ('the Duskers'), formed around September, 1898, were Daly, Fred J Broomfield, Philp, Herbert Low (journalist), William Bede Melville, Bertram Stevens and Randolph Bedford. It was formed at Broomfield's home on the corner of Ice Road and Great Barcom Street, Darlinghurst, near St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Edwin Brady says the Dawn to Dusk Club's places of rendezvous were Giovanni's wine cellar, Paris House, the Coolalta, Pfahlert's Hotel, Joe Power's, and the Hole-in-the-Wall. (He wrote: 'The place was largely determined by purse; French menu and wine when the going was good, biscuits and beer when the ghost limped rather than walked.')
"Lawson created the motto: 'Roost high and crow low'. Lawson's sometime friend, poet John Le Gay Brereton had nothing to do with it, thinking they were just a bunch of drunks. Truth magazine publisher John Norton called them 'a band of boozy, bar-bumming bards'. Daley was elected Symposiarch of the Duskers and the seven 'heptarchs' were Henry Lawson, Stevens, sculptor Nelson Ilingworth, Frank P Mahony, George Augustine Taylor, Con Lindsay (journalist), and Philp, later commercial editor of the Brisbane Courier. Philp drafted the rules."
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