The Polish Fine Arts Club (Klub Kultury Polskiej) was organized following a 1930 lake front festival in Milwaukee. Festival singers and dancers who participated in the favorably received “Polish Wedding” ceremony were asked to perform again on several occasions, and thus decided to form a group to disseminate Polish culture to others. Charter members included Conrad Saskowski, Stasia Pokora, and Felicia Kwasieborska. The Club produced and sponsored both light comedies and more serious works, operas, and concerts, among them being Words and Music (1932), Ladies and Hussars (1932), Yours to Command (written by Saskowski, 1935), Children Be Good (1937), Ach Te Wakacje (written by Stasia Pokora, 1937), Polonaise (1939), and the annual Night in Poland ball. Several symphony concerts, usually featuring Polish conductor Jerzy Bojanowski, were also sponsored by the Club. While the operas and serious concerts and plays of the Polish Fine Arts Club generally broke even financially, the comedies and spoofs were fundraisers for the group. After 1949 the Club disbanded due to declining interest among the membership.
