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...those who do not set standards what is being done by those who do. The Story: Although famed Emily Post's outline of etiquette has run through 17 printings, people keep on asking her new conduct-questions. Recent examples: "Do you think it would be attractive to have the groom sing a solo at his wedding . . . and do I stay with the groom after the wedding most of the time?" Another: "How do you teach children not to swallow fish bones?" Another: "How can I develop sufficient ingenuity to be a cook-waitress and at the same time a cool...
...their wedding took place last week, newspaperdom was on hand at Grande Anse with questions and cameras thrice as active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null since Lena was one; said, yes, they would go abroad a while; yes, then settle in Cambridge...
...treated the reporters, and their myriad constituents, so much like intelligent beings that by and large the despatches from Grande Anse were quiet and sensible, with very little trash about the social "incongruity" between the bride and groom except where headline writers wrote: "WILDWOOD LENA," "DAUGHTER OF FOREST," "HUMBLE SCION...
After the wedding, however, as the groom started to carve the wedding cake, eight late arrivals at Grande Anse pushed up even closer than they had dared trespass during the service itself. They were camera and cinema men with but one duty in the world, to photograph as far as they could...
...York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent was alone in smirking: "There was no throwing of plates or potato salad?probably because Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman . . . was not along. But in the late afternoon, while reporters grouped on the Forty-ninth Street side...