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...Chapters: "Modern Man and Girl"; "Modern Exactions of Courtesy" (smoking, radio, punctuality, telephone manners); "Etiquette in Washington and State Capitals" (An Ambassador precedes the Chief Justice and a Cardinal comes before both); "American Neighborhood Customs" (rules for the hinterland); "Restaurant Etiquette"; "The Vanished Chaperon and Other Lost Conventions...
...Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon. In Switzerland Kay and her companions have time to try everything from fancy skating, for which Claudette Colbert reveals unsuspected talent, to falling off a bob-sled at 60 m.p.h., before Gene's wife (Mona Barrie) appears at the ice bar of the Hotel St. Georg. This disrupts their...
...London's 1928 world skating championship, Cecilia Colledge, 7, with her hair in pigtails, went with her mother who met a friend. The friend was Mrs. Thomas M. Vinson, there to chaperon and applaud her daughter Maribel, who last fortnight won the North American women's figure skating championship. By the time the Colledges left the rink, Mrs. Colledge had been fired with the ambition of making her daughter as good a skater as Mrs. Vinson's Maribel, who had promised to send small Cecilia a pair of skates she had outgrown. The skates fitted Cecilia exactly...
...Simpson. It was an achievement last week that Mrs. Simpson was able for the first time to go shopping in Cannes without causing a crowd to collect. She ate her Christmas dinner not in the villa of her friends Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers but with her famed chaperon Aunt Bessie in a Cannes hotel. Greatest ambition of the Woman of the Year seemed to be to drop from world publicity's most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion, the perfect 1937 exit for the Woman...
...Washington Star. About a month ago he cabled Cousin Wallis, asking if he could be of service to King Edward and herself. She cabled Cousin Newbold to come on over. He dined in Mrs. Simpson's London house on the night of his arrival with her chaperon Aunt Bessie. Cousin Wallis was spending the weekend in the country with King Edward. After dinner, conscientious Aunt Bessie left Mr. Noyes in London and drove out to stay Monday night under the same roof as the King & Mrs. Simpson...