Bert Levy

Bert Levy – Australia's first global Vaudeville star

Friar’s Club (con’t)

Bert’s membership of this erstwhile club has certainly attracted some interest from members !! Great description below-

“In the 1960s, the Friars Club, the Lambs Club, and the Players Club were often confused. The columnist Earl Wilson put it this way in 1964: “Long ago a New Yorker asked the difference between the Lambs, Friars, and Players, since the membership was, at the time, predominantly from Broadway.” It was left to “a wit believed to have been George S. Kaufman” to draw the distinction: “The Players are gentlemen trying to be actors, the Lambs are actors trying to be gentlemen, and the Friars are neither trying to be both.”^[18]