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...famed for their opulence. For one Fēte des Roses she brought the entire cast of Red Rose Inn, then in the midst of a highly successful New York fun, to a theater built especially for the occasion on the grounds of Beaulieu, her red brick villa at Newport. Said one of her guests, the Grand Duke Boris of Russia: "Is this really your America or have I landed on an enchanted island...
...Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the chief rival claimant to leadership of U.S. (i.e., New York and Newport) society. The importance of the position she had won was fully apparent to Grace Vanderbilt. Said she on one occasion: "I feel deeply for poor dear Marie Antoinette, for if The Revolution came to America I should be the first...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably Hghthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor. Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor. Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...