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Mode-arbiter Condé Nast made quaint obeisance this month to Quakery by decreeing as first "special issue" of Vanity Fair ever published, a Sesquicentennial Number. Though the Sesquicentennial achieves little prominence except its mention on the cover, an arraignment of Manhattan's last theatrical season in 67 compressed capsules of reproof give to the issue an appropriate Quaker tone. Mr. George Jean Nathan, a critic steeped in theatre lore, discerning though scurrilous, able though loud, composed the 67 indictments with nice variety of language. A few follow...
...correcting many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...business clothes-all rubbed shoulders. The King smiled. Americans were present: Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. M. Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. A Crittenden Smith of Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Heinz, Pittsburgh; Conde Nast and Miss Natica Nast, New York; Miss Louise Berid and Colonel and Mrs. Robert Roos, San Francisco; Mrs. R. F. Tucker, a daughter of Colonel and Mrs. E. M. House; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Mrs. Capper, Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessee and Mrs. Hull, and many another...
Sued for Divorce. Condé Nast, publisher and chief owner of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Royal, Children's Vogue, Vogue Pattern Book, by Clarisse Coudert Nast, daughter of Charles Coudert, member of the law firm of Coudert Bros., one of the oldest international law firms in the U. S.; in Paris. They have lived apart for some time...