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...sumptuously chic offices of the Condé Nast Publications in Manhattan a birthday was celebrated this week. It was the 50th anniversary of Vogue, a brilliantined 35? slick devoted to expensive living and women's fashions. Off the presses came a fat issue reviewing five decades of styles...
Crowninshield's persistent plumping for modern art in Vanity Fair at first alarmed Publisher Condé Nast and a good section of his office force. Nast later wrote, in an office memorandum: ". . . In time, however . . . we derived a very considerable benefit from having published such. In fact, a portfolio of our prints . . . scored so great a success that we netted a handsome profit...
...hear her sing it. In 1912, at a Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...
...Condè Nast publications made a net profit of $1,345,653 in 1929; last year their net was $225,688.62. A deficit showed up in the first six months of this year-$28,588 as compared with a profit of $137,389 for the same period a year ago. Chief reason: a slump in luxury advertising-15% and 20% for Vogue and House & Garden respectively. House & Garden is still in the red; so is Glamour. French Vogue had to be written off the books...
Fact was that Condè Nast was a sound publishing property. It had fought its way put of heavy depression losses ($500,000 m 1933). Taking cognizance of the new luxury-clipped realities, it had unloaded Vanity Fair and The American Golfer, tapped wider audiences with Hollywood Patterns and Glamour. What it needed now to keep it solvent was shrewd management. Condè-Nastians agree that President "Pat" Patcèvitch promises a more solvent future than anybody else in sight...