High society
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- 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
George S. (George Shepard) Chappell and Frank Crowninshield and Dorothy Parker
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1. Front matter2. AN INVITATION TO THE READER3. The Social Merry-Go-Round4. Fish, And Her Work5. List Of Contents In Which the Scenes and the Principal Characters Are Revealed6. The Opening of the Social Season How the Members of the Beau Monde Will Spend What Is Left of Their War-time Incomes7. The Opera, in Full Blast Showing That Things Are Sounding Much as Usual At the Opera This Year8. Keeping on With the Dance You Will Certainly Be Considered a Social Pariah if You Don’t Dance the Night Out9. Getting On, in Smart Society If, at First, You Don’t Succeed, Dine ’em and Dine ’em Again10. Hints on Honeymoons—For the Very Rich How to Make a Smart Honeymoon—Comparatively Speaking—Agreeable11. The Poets That Bloom in the Spring A Popular New Pastime in Smart Society—the Matinée Poétique12. The Art Exhibition: Opening Day After All, There Is Nothing Like Modern Sculpture to Stimulate the Imagination13. A Week-End With the Recently Rich Showing That a Profiteer Is Without Honour in His Own Country14. On the Trail of the Concert Lovers “Among Those Present”—at All the Smart Concert Halls15. The Trials of the Newly Poor A Heart-rending Picture of Life as it is Lived Behind Aristocratic Doors16. The Prize Fight Finally Gets into Society The Smartest Diversion Is Now the Science of the Swat and the Slam17. Dreadful Moments in Society Embarrassing Little Episodes Which Might Happen to Even the Best of Us18. On the Trail of a Wife Détours on the Road to Matrimony19. Divorce: A Great Indoor Sport It is Beginning to Rank First Among Our Fashionable and Popular Pastimes20. Wild Bores We Have Met Question! Who—in Society—Is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent. Bore?21. The Throes of First Love, in Society A Few Fashionable Little Variations on the Oldest Theme in the World22. A Calendar of Popular Outdoor Sports As Practised Among Persons of Breeding and Quality23. The Seven Deadly Temperaments As Frequently Met With in the Ladies24. Six Brands of Week-End Hostesses It’s a Lusty Life, if You Don’t Week-End25. After-the-War Servant Problems How the Great Conflict ended the Golden Days of Service in the Houses of the Elect26. Advice to the Lovelorn What Every Girl Should Know, Before Choosing a Husband27. The Open Season for Strikes If You Don’t See What You Want, Strike for It28. The Art of Fashionable Portraiture You Can’t Quite Be “It,” Without the Aid of a Modernist Artist29. Social Superstitions With Very Special Obeisances to Cupid30. Who’s Who—in the Audience Showing That the Smart Playgoer, Not the Smart Play, Is Really the Thing31. The Horrors of the Week End From the Tortured Hostess’s Point of View32. When Marriage Is a Failure—Cherchez la Femme Have You a Little Failure In Your Home?33. Opening of the Opera Season34. Blighters at Bridge A Terrifying Triumvirate of Familiar Lady Auction Pests35. A Way to Succeed on the Stage A Lady, Once a Creature of Fashion, and Now a Famous Actress, Tells of Her Success36. Sports for the Summer The Increasingly Feminine Tone of Outdoor Diversions37. The Strategy and Finesse of Proposing Advance Leaves from 1921 Handbook of Courtship38. Palmy Days at the Seaside Sights at the Bathing Resorts When the Season for Salt Water is Declared On39. An Interview with A Great Dancer Privileged Peeps into the Soul of Mlle. Angeline, of Paris40. Transcriber’s Notes