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Read Ebook: High Society Advice as to Social Campaigning and Hints on the Management of Dowagers Dinners Debutantes Dances and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality by Chappell George S George Shepard Crowninshield Frank Parker Dorothy Fish Anne Harriet Illustrator
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Illustrator: Anne Harriet Fish
Transcriber's Notes
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BUT--
AN INVITATION TO THE READER
Reader, will you join a gay dance Of the younger Social Set, And, amid their merry May-dance, Personally pirouette? Don a garment, smart and snappy, Wear your most engaging smile, Banish boredom and be happy-- In the world of chic and style.
Cedric woos Celeste--who dances-- Vowing love that never dies; Ethel sees adoring glances In athletic Albert's eyes; Peter--solvent as Maecenas, Lures a mermaid to the shore, Telling her she looks like Venus, Which, of course, she's heard before.
You may dance, while Signor Cupid Fiddles an entrancing tune; Or, if you find jazzing stupid, There are gardens--and a moon! Life, and all its animation Bids us join the mad m?l?e, And, to use an old quotation, Gather rose-buds while we may.
Every make of merry mortal, Wise or otherwise, is here, And this page is but the portal Of another world made clear. Yes, a world, and you may buy it In this giddy, gaudy book, Though, of course, I can't deny it Has a rather Fish-y look!
G. S. C.
The Social Merry-Go-Round
The artist is the director, the book a many-colored whirligig. Group after group revolves before us, while the artist smiles with an arch, faintly satiric smile, pointing out to us the weaknesses of the participants in this sacred social world, a delightfully gay throng, constantly occupied in singing, cajoling, feasting, playing, and dancing. Each of the characters in this book recognizes only one duty toward himself--not to be bored--and one law toward his neighbors--not to bore them. The wheel of the merry-go-round turns again; color is blurred with color; figure succeeds figure. Montez, Monsieur, montez, Madame. The show begins.
HIGH SOCIETY
Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality
The Drawings by FISH
The Prose Precepts by
DOROTHY PARKER GEORGE S. CHAPPELL and FRANK CROWNINSHIELD
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS ? NEW YORK and LONDON The Knickerbocker Press
A HINT TO HIGHWAYMEN
Fish, And Her Work
Meantime, a tall, slender young girl of twenty-two was drawing the pictures that were helping to keep laughter alive during those dark days--and troubling very little indeed as to whether Fame's wandering searchlight would ever find her out.
That girl was "Fish," deemed to-day, by many critics, the most distinguished of satirical black-and-white illustrators.
But there is beauty in her extraordinary gallery, as well as caricature. The patterns on her flappers' gowns are like laces and hangings by Beardsley; a Pomeranian lying on a rug, becomes a patch of elegant scrollery, like a detail in a Japanese print. There is no trace at all, in her drawings, of the hackneyed conventions of illustration: everything in them is presented through the medium of an original feeling for form. Even her profiteering millionaires become designs made up of deft and satisfying curves. Her sketches are creations not only of a clever and sophisticated intelligence, but of a true artist.
In the pages of this book the reader will meet only with Miss Fish's social creations: the double-decked dowagers, the amateur vampires, the horsey horsemen, the diabolically clever little d?butantes, the tango addicts, the incurable bridge-players, the worn-out week-end hostesses, and the myriad types of human beings that seem perpetually to haunt the portals of our most exalted society.
THE EDITOR.
List Of Contents
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The Opening of the Social Season How the Members of the Beau Monde will Spend what is Left of their War-time Incomes 2
The Opera, in Full Blast Showing that Things are Sounding Much as Usual at the Opera this Year 4
Keeping on with the Dance You Will Certainly be Considered a Social Pariah if you don't Dance the Night Out 6
Getting On, in Smart Society If, at First, You Don't Succeed, Dine 'em and Dine 'em Again 8
Hints on Honeymoons--for the Very Rich How to Make a Smart Honeymoon--Comparatively Speaking-- Agreeable 10
The Poets that Bloom in the Spring A Popular New Pastime in Smart Society--the Matin?e Po?tique 12
The Art Exhibition: Opening Day After All, There is Nothing Like Modern Sculpture to Stimulate the Imagination 13
A Week-End with the Recently Rich Showing that a Profiteer is Without Honour in his Own Country 14
On the Trail of the Concert Lovers "Among Those Present"--at all the Smart Concert Halls 16
The Trials of the Newly Poor A Heart-Rending Picture of Life as it is Lived Behind Aristocratic Doors 18
The Prize Fight Finally Gets into Society The Smartest Diversion is now the Science of the Swat and the Slam 20
Dreadful Moments in Society Embarrassing Little Episodes which Might Happen to Even the Best of Us 22
On the Trail of a Wife D?tours on the Road to Matrimony 24
Divorce: A Great Indoor Sport It is Beginning to Rank First among our Fashionable and Popular Pastimes 26
Wild Bores We Have Met Question! Who--in Society--is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent Bore? 28
The Throes of First Love, in Society A Few Fashionable Little Variations on the Oldest Theme in the World 30
A Calendar of Popular Outdoor Sports As Practised among Persons of Breeding and Quality 32
The Seven Deadly Temperaments As Frequently Met With in the Ladies 34
Six Brands of Week-End Hostesses It's a Lusty Life, if You Don't Week-End 36
After-the-War Servant Problems How the Great Conflict Ended the Golden Days of Service in the Houses of the Elect 38
Advice to the Lovelorn What Every Girl Should Know, Before Choosing a Husband 40
The Open Season for Strikes If you Don't See What you Want, Strike for It 42
The Art of Fashionable Portraiture You Can't be Quite "It," Without the Aid of a Modernist Artist 44
Social Superstitions With Very Special Obeisances to Cupid 46
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