New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung, February 28, 1889

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These clubs existed for social gatherings, sometimes for literary purposes, such as sharing the latest research or publications. As late as 1889 there existed a Dramatische Lese Verein - [Dramatic Reading Club] - where dramatic readings of Schiller's Robbers or Wilhelm Tell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe writings or Shakespeare's Julius Caesar took place and even an orchestra played the overture to Suppe's Peasant and Poet. Guests were welcome but had to be accompanied by members.