edit the hugely influential cultural and political journal The New Age. Albert Wheatley Waddington, an architect and former secretary of Edward Carpenter's Sheffield Socialist Society, and Annie Kennedy, a schoolteacher and Jean Orage's cousin, acted as secretary and assistant secretary, developing links with the University of Leeds. The Club continued to host speakers, as well as arranging summer excursions, a life-drawing group, a musical committee, a book group and lending library. In February 1908, the Club moved to 8 Blenheim Terrace, Woodhouse Lane, a 3 storey house near to the University, despite the fact that members were still largely non-university women and men. In April 1908, the actress and social activist Millicent Murby lectured on George Bernard Shaw and in December 1908, the actress Florence Farr lectured on 'The Theatre and the Arts', reflecting the debates around the role of theatre in cultural renewal that dominated the Club in these years. William Rothenstein lectured on 'The Possibilities of the Fine Arts in February 1908 advocating the need to develop civic collections in relation to provincial schools of art. Many musical performances took place from 1908 on, including by Misses Beecroft and Appleyard, Miss Lily Simms and a talk on 'Musical Healthy Mindedness' by Kate Whitehead, editor of Musical World. Between 1909 and 1911, national figures like G. K. Chesterton, Yeats and Edward Carpenter lectured at the Club where theatre, religion, politics and ecological issues dominated, photographs by Frank Sutcliffe and Frederick Evans were exhibited. In 1911, the pioneering Elizabeth Bessle Comedy Company gave three performances. 1911–1923 In 1911 and 1912, the appointments of Michael Sadler as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and Frank Rutter as director of the Leeds Art Gallery changed the nature of the Club. Under their leadership the Arts Club maintained its interest in the relationship between radical politics, spiritualism and art, but this was expanded to encompass early psychoanalysis and, most significantly Post-Impressionist and abstract art. Sadler owned one of the largest collections of Post-Impressionist art in Britain, displayed in his house in Headingley, and had connections to Kandinsky and the Blaue Reiter Group. Sadler's son had bought Kandinksy's woodcuts at an exhibition in 1911 organised by Rutter. Using his personal links with Wassily Kandinsky in Munich, Sadler built up a remarkable collection of expressionist and abstract expressionist art at a time when such art was either unknown or dismissed in London, even