Word: graustein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then to Roseland from Boston and the front rank of U. S. tycoons came Archibald Robertson Graustein, head of the International Paper Co. (now subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.). Great was Mr. Graustein's place and many were his cares, but he bade dull care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate...
Simple was the rest of the story-only the happy ending remained. For, much as Hostess Patton may at first have questioned the story of riches and position to which this middle-aged (Mr. Graustein is 43) suitor referred, she found that the unbelievable was true, that the incredible was a fact. One day (March 14),* in El Paso Tycoon Graustein and Hostess Patton were married, and from Roseland's hostesses the fairest flower is gone...
Peculiar was the newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
...Texas wedding it would have front-paged every paper. But it is not in their occurrence but in their telling that events age, To a man unconscious since Nov. 10, 1918, news of the armistice would be great news. To a public unconscious of the Graustein wedding this latest and best of Cinderella stories remains fresh and green. Until it is told, no story...
...month before Tycoon Graustein's interests in many a newspaper were being widely noised, vigorously assailed (.TIME, April...