New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1930, Page 4

] NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1930. SOCIETY 13 GANE FOR WEALTHY MEN Millions Await Winners, Former Social Secrefary Says BY MARGARETTA ROBERTS (Who Has Been Social Secretary in the Homes of Some of the Coun- try's Wealthiest Families.) Several of the best known woin in society today have entered it via Europe. That may seem like a long way to get to Long Island, B Harbor, or Newport, but, in the end it frequently proves the t. Since the war it has been com paratively easy for rich America to crash London. T.ondon's ti folk have been badly hit and the| old estates are taxed unmercifully. | The owners of these estates not | adverse to taking ayir uests,” | or perhaps letting the estate to excessively rich Amer or AL rather fabulous And y im- poverished titled women, diplomat- | ically approached, will take aspir-| ing rich climbers under their tute- | lage and for iderab: | sum will make senerally | i | sum very cor hat i termed “interesting tacts.” social P Titles Missing This method, too, h its disad- vantages. All too many of the titled friends brought back to this country have proved to be ers of only second rate title title at all. A good way for a woman a wedge into society is for select a few good cha very industrious in the Eventually this will lead tact with some socially desirab! people. The trouble with thi tem is that it has been worked to | death, and now obvious method of attack Another method, and one is growing, is to invite i meet some important thor, or musician. M v of (i"} people invited will come out of | own- or no, to get her to| d Lo | to con- | which | 0 ests curiosity. The celebrity, the gues of honor, may he cngaged at price of $500 to $1500 for the ey ning. This is an angle of the ciety racket which has gro greatly during the past two years I know one socicty climber, u | weman who when confronted witi | the impending collapse of her first | rcally big: anl important dinn engaged a par rly popular | and distinguished English novelist | to act as her guest of honor. It/ cost her $1500 to have | hand, but she probabl ! it cheap at the price, for her din- ner turned out to be a great suc- | cess, i him on considered . s Men as Climbers Many climbers depend a great | deal on publicity. It is their am: | bition to keep their names and pictures on the socie pages of the great newspapers and maga-| zines. In order to accomplish this, they cultivate a decidedly cordial attitude tomards all mem- bers of the press and. in ma employ on their personal | ne paperman or "")“W‘! whose sole duty it to see that the press is kept fully informed of the doings of Mr. and Mgs. So- and-So. Many of the most cial climbers are men. In days gone by Americans liked to thinit of society as a woman's game; 1o | one finds an increasingly la number of men who are opc out to scale the social heights. I worked for on man. H was a charming person. Yot ho | never quite arrived socially. The | owner of an enormous ranch | California, he made frequent trip there in a private train loaded with his gu His hospitaliiv | was unbounded, and it was not un- | usual for him to import an entire | orchestra, and I remember whe he engaged a whole company o bull-fighters from Mexico in order to stage a bull fight for his guests' | amusement. The monthly lishment were ) this because 1 had the making out the checks at th of each month. Jveryvthing establishment was free to | guests. One young man, a guest happened to be very much in lov with & girl living in York | | energetic so- | | | | | such bill enor of | en | at h At The First Sign| Of Skin Trouble - A pimple, bit of rash or . don’t be dismayed—: Ointment and see how quick] the disorder is healed. Then adopt Resinol Soap for daily use. It makes the skinlook and feel clean and gives it a velvety soft: Guard your complexion the Re: nol way—the soap to cleanso— the ointment to heal. For free sample of each, write Resinol, Dept. 92, Baltimore, Md, Resinol thousands of dollars. But, alas, when I reached home that evening, dead tired, more gifts had come, and" there was still indebtedness. The dowager was in tears. Her most important so- cial rival had come across with a jewelled lighter that fairly reeked o: lavish expenditure. The dows ager had nothing to give in return. lled her nightly on the long|made arrangement with all the telephone. The bill ras | tradespeople and had the place fn hundreds of dollars, but the|order, even to flawers in the vases. host never thought of asking the|When she arrived on the scene, guest to settle it. And so far as I[she would step from her private know, the guest never thought of |train into her own motor car and offering o do so. The bootlegger's |come into a home that was just bill at this establishment often ran |as completely equipped as the one to $4,000 or $5,000 a month. she had left. This man entertained not ouly | LRI the society set and the polo pln\-i Her Christmas List She finally solved the problem ing crowd, but a large number of| This woman made much of|by sending to the rival one of the actresses from Hollywood. The|Christmas. She had a Christmas|gifts she had received {rom some- invitations usually were for fen|list of about 350 people to whom fone else. days, and during that time the|shc always sent glfts ranging ir Kept busy with vari-|value from $50 to $10,000. We entertainments cvery | kept a book in which her gift rec- time. ords were kept for five years, con- 5 |taining an accurate list and prices into In her next article—the last of this series—the Social Secretary tells the inside story of the ‘‘debu- tante marriage mart.” guests were ous sorts of minute of the . . REPORT ON RIOTY ROUSES HOSTILITY {Both Arabs and Jews Feel British Inquiry Was Unfair London, April 2 (UP)—The °re- port of the British commission which investigated the outbreak of rioting in Palestine last August met with & hostile reception in virtually all quarters today and will be the |and Arabs, and to make recommen- dations against recurrence of such a situation. The commission’s report howe drew conclusions regarding immi gration, land transfer and other problems. Jewish circles considered the report unfair for that reason and a spokesman at Zionist head- quarters said: “When considering immigration the commission ignored the Jews' historic claim to Palestine and treated the Jews as aliens en- tering a foreign country instead of their homeland.” Arabs Offended The Arabs, who were blamed for a sudden outbreak against certain Jewish quarters, were said to have been offended by the imputation — 1 What Congress Is Doing —————————————————— Wednesday Senate Considers muscle shoals tion. Lobby commiltee continues muscle shoals investigation. House . Debates special rule under which tarifft would be sent direct to cop- ference. Judiciary committee resumes taking testimony of drys in prohi bition hearings. Ranking committce continues in- legisla- | prove railway consolidations. Scnator Jones assailed Literary Digest prohibition poll. Senator Tydings attacked prohi- bition law. Senate adopted conference report on $125,000,000 appropriation fo: federal highways. Passed more than resolutions. 60 Dbills and House Adopted Snell ‘“‘universal draft” resolution to provide for study o methods of removing profits of war. Resolution for investigation of the proposed merger of the Bethle- {hem Steel Corporation and ths | Youngstown Sheet and Tube come tions on is considered an | | thi of a | “didn't | quietest, {at Bar Harbor, | T preceded Helps in Business | But despite the amount of mon-| ¢y that he spent he never mad | impression on sociefy. never wanted to. His were just a trifl his expenditures | iy real Perhaps he entertainments too picturesqy Har. ays the man climber chance than his wif intial too specta In many lias a He I wid Busine affiliz contacls tions, o0l frequently bring him into with the sort of men who | break his social ca-| also happens | few clubs ! contact can make or reer. 1f such a to have a wife and helpful and facing he may both of them in society on mere engtn of his tize. | minence has a hight value and is, there- ought after by the man of today bonds, manipu- commands hoard gener man who is charmirg ufficiently self- manage to land | business pre Social pr commercial <tul business t sells stocks and lates hig deals, important the icing on the cake R Some of the best social climbers [ know are men. They are good enders, and magniticent and lav- ertainers. Another unusual figure in whom 1 nember very Athy Newpert man. H very much on the wport circle. Iz entricities ed him fo his sct of friends, considered some- lumorist. Whenever this man was invited out to dinner he went companied by his stai and dignitied valet who carried a bundle under his arm. bundle contained tleman's for the And no how were offer he refused them and was a4 from his own pri- vate stock. He explained that he trust anybody's these days” and this alway reeted by soci- he was the evenin many drin liquar matt tquor remark was shouts o laughter. « e Owned Tortune This man was a a Newpart do for a tim ways on the i old dowager was the antithesis of the social climber. With a fortune | 0f $40,000,000 of her own she had | married comy ively poor | an, worth only $30.000,000. He| must have 1t the discrepancy in | their positions because he was the | most humble man I ever great friend of ager whom [ served Always rich, al-| de socially, the | met. The cstablishment where lived part of the year con- tained 30 bathrooms. 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Always sought after, always happy, the People with Pep! what from of just received that fime. £he may have been cnormously wealthy but she wanted to receive a gift of approximately the same valuc the one she gave. One year she had a particularly peor Christmas, fenc sending 2ifts that were geeatly under thz 10 of her own. That made \ar good and angry. “We'll cut down the lis he announced, and we vwent ove the list and pared it down to about 30 people. Then we waited for and her revenge. Perversely enough, however, the dowager's regular list of giv- did particularly well by her car, and several mew ones annexed themselves. When the house ~began to look like a gift shop, the dowager weakened. On .the day before Christmas, when the stores were particularly the old dowager relented and rushed me to the shops to do her buying. 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Committed Offense Almost all sources agreed that the commission committed an of-| fense when it went beyond what was described as the duty to which it was referred. The commission was appointed as a magnified cor- oner’s jury te investigate immediate causes of the rioting between Jews vestigation of group, chain anl branch banking. Tuesday Senat Passed annual appropriation bill for state, justice, commerce and pany, introduced by LaGuardia, republican, New York. Rule committee approved special rule under which the tariff woull be sent dircct to conference. that the grand mufti's policy in con- nection with the wailing wall (where the Jews pray beside Arab territory) had an anti-Jewish me- tive. Arab sources also said the re- port failed to consider the predom- inance in population as well as their | labor departments. historical claims to Palestine. 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