TOP HAT CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 13

TOP HAT CLUB

A NEW IDEA

The House of Commons is being'Biglihatted. This does not mean that, some H.P.s are giving themselves airs. They are trying to give the Hriuse an' air, states the "Daily Mail." . A determined attempt 5s 'being made to revive the cult of the top hat. So, as is usual when. Britons are fired with a passionate cause, a club has been formed. It is a diniiig-elub. It is bound to dine collectively once a week, partly in toppers. :. The top hat will be Ay'orn until,soup has been served. Thereafter hats.SViU be removed, and the remaining courses will be consumed in the ordinary, undistinguished manner. , ■ The Top Hat Club is a young man's movement. Some.thirty of the more youthful M.P.s are concerned in this reverential essay to restore to Parliament the distinction of the spacious days. NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE. Senior members like Sir' Austen Chamberlain, Sir lan Maepherson, Sir Nicholas Grattan Doyle, and Sir Basil Peto, who for years have conferred the dignifying gloss of the topper on the House, have been co-opted to the club, as it would seem, in anTionorary capacity. ' Sir Austen and Lord Hailshani were the club's guests. It is understood that club members are pledged to wear a top hat on every appropriate .occasion, .T.H.urs Day,how'Cver, is said to be particularly "tophat day, and an extraordinarily good muster is then expected. Carnations may J)o worn, but are optional. Toppers are compulsory. Eloetion is by invitation, ana although all the present members are Conservatives the topper is officially declared to have "no political significance." ''...' ;