History Corner
Mark Twain Returns to the Whitefriars ClubOn 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
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George Bernard Shaw
The playwright, novelist, essayist and Nobel Prize winner Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature, with masterpieces such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan among his most enduringly popular works.
Shaw spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 16th February 1906 on the topic of ‘Should Theatres be Municipalised?’ He returned to the club on 29th October 1920, delivering a speech on ‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat’.
