Word: crowninshields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...altogether happy. Every month he has to worry his head and fret and fuss over what there is new to divert gay, witty, accomplished people; ,what new to furnish people who would like to be thought gay, witty, accomplished. The little man is an editor, Mr. Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair...
...Editor Crowninshield's employer, Publisher Condé Nast, is not one of your editorial Hamlets. Not that he lacks any of Editor Crowninshield's sensibility and finesse, or his modernity in things aesthetic. But Publisher Nast is more practical. For some time he was advertising, then business manager of Collier's Weekly. He now has a string of publications of his own.* His polish is as that of hard ebony beside the soft silk of Mr. Crowninshield...
Manhattan was neither surprised nor puzzled by a socio-aesthetic project of which it was advised last week. The Messrs. Nast and Crowninshield were announced as head promoters of a new type of nocturnal resort, frankly modeled after the Embassy Club of London and intended to cultivate that delectable type of night life so familiar to readers of Author Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius...
Musing over what it would be like, said Mr. Crowninshield: "Entering, we'll say, the home of a duchess [in London] one might be attracted by the appearance of a distinguished looking man and find him to be a famous pianist. Over in a corner might be a man who had written a play. Cyril Maude, or an actor of his standing, might be observed chatting at another point. And there'd be Lady Diana Manners...
...George Bellows, famed artist, at the height of his career, came Death last week. He died in Manhattan after an operation for acute appendicitis. To his bier flocked many celebrated painters, Art patrons, writers-Ignacio Zuloaga, Charles Dana Gibson, Frank Crowninshield, Joseph Hergesheimer, Guy Pepe Du Bois, Joseph Pennell, John Sloane, Robert Henri, Robert W. Chanler, Albert Sterner, Gari Melchers, A. Sterling Calder...