LONDON - Once upon a time, in the Anglo-Saxon world, the gentlemen's clubs: places where only men entered just to smoke a cigar, reading a newspaper, drink, dine, relax, without the possibility of meeting the opposite sex. Then the equality laws, on both sides of the Atlantic, have gradually opened the doors of private clubs including the ladies.
With a partial exception: the Garrick, the historic London club, a bastion of male chauvinism, women can you get and do everything that men do, but only as guests, accompanied by a male partner. The ladies, in fact, can not join. The old habit that British Prime Minister is still registered at the Garrick customary forced the club to make an exception for Margaret Thatcher, but as soon as the Iron Lady left Downing Street, was also canceled his membership in the Garrick.
Has another special feature, the Garrick, from World War II is twinned with a famous and no less elite gentlemen's club in New York, the Centurion. The club members may also enter into the other, enjoying full rights. Except that in recent days to the American club members have asked to be voted on by Garrick divorce: the end of the twinning.
Reason: the rule of the London club, which prevents the inclusion of women, deemed obsolete, unacceptable and disgraceful by all in all, more egalitarian and modern Americans. They won the "yes" to divorce, 900 votes against 600. So from now on members of the Garrick will no longer go to the Centurion, and vice versa.
The affair has left a trail of controversy that ended up in newspapers and will continue for a while. The two clubs are each in its own way, a national institution. Both exist in the first half of the nineteenth century. Garrick were members of Charles Dickens, William Tackeray, Laurence Olivier.
Centurion him were Henry Kissinger, Brooke Astor, Jacqueline Kennedy. To some Americans, the divorce was sorry: an open letter of protest signed by 46 members of the Centurion, calls for a new vote and colleagues suggests that you change your mind. Even a woman entered in the Centurion, the actress Marian Seides, is in favor of turning a blind eye: "I was at the Garrick accompanied by my husband, as her guest, so what? It 's a romantic place like this.
We know that the British are a bit 'crazy, give them time to learn and adapt to the rules of the rest of the world. " But Garrick did not take the snub well. "In this country, we feel that a private club can decide on the membership rules without interference from anyone, let alone a club overseas," said a member of the London club all'Evening Standard.
"The members of the Centurion they care more about the shocking inequality in their society, before coming to lecture us on how we organize our own." In any case, if the Garrick has second thoughts and decided to admit women, none could come any time soon: the waiting list for enrollment for the next partner - of either gender - is a long five years. 
With a partial exception: the Garrick, the historic London club, a bastion of male chauvinism, women can you get and do everything that men do, but only as guests, accompanied by a male partner. The ladies, in fact, can not join. The old habit that British Prime Minister is still registered at the Garrick customary forced the club to make an exception for Margaret Thatcher, but as soon as the Iron Lady left Downing Street, was also canceled his membership in the Garrick.
Has another special feature, the Garrick, from World War II is twinned with a famous and no less elite gentlemen's club in New York, the Centurion. The club members may also enter into the other, enjoying full rights. Except that in recent days to the American club members have asked to be voted on by Garrick divorce: the end of the twinning.
Reason: the rule of the London club, which prevents the inclusion of women, deemed obsolete, unacceptable and disgraceful by all in all, more egalitarian and modern Americans. They won the "yes" to divorce, 900 votes against 600. So from now on members of the Garrick will no longer go to the Centurion, and vice versa.
The affair has left a trail of controversy that ended up in newspapers and will continue for a while. The two clubs are each in its own way, a national institution. Both exist in the first half of the nineteenth century. Garrick were members of Charles Dickens, William Tackeray, Laurence Olivier.
Centurion him were Henry Kissinger, Brooke Astor, Jacqueline Kennedy. To some Americans, the divorce was sorry: an open letter of protest signed by 46 members of the Centurion, calls for a new vote and colleagues suggests that you change your mind. Even a woman entered in the Centurion, the actress Marian Seides, is in favor of turning a blind eye: "I was at the Garrick accompanied by my husband, as her guest, so what? It 's a romantic place like this.
We know that the British are a bit 'crazy, give them time to learn and adapt to the rules of the rest of the world. " But Garrick did not take the snub well. "In this country, we feel that a private club can decide on the membership rules without interference from anyone, let alone a club overseas," said a member of the London club all'Evening Standard.
"The members of the Centurion they care more about the shocking inequality in their society, before coming to lecture us on how we organize our own." In any case, if the Garrick has second thoughts and decided to admit women, none could come any time soon: the waiting list for enrollment for the next partner - of either gender - is a long five years.
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