List Of Contents
In Which the Scenes and the Principal Characters Are Revealed
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- The Opening of the Social Season
- How the Members of the Beau Monde will Spend what is Left of their War-time Incomes [2]
- The Opera, in Full Blast
- Showing that Things are Sounding Much as Usual at the Opera this Year [4]
- Keeping on with the Dance
- You Will Certainly be Considered a Social Pariah if you don’t Dance the Night Out [6]
- Getting On, in Smart Society
- If, at First, You Don’t Succeed, Dine ’em and Dine ’em Again [8]
- Hints on Honeymoons—for the Very Rich
- How to Make a Smart Honeymoon—Comparatively Speaking—Agreeable [10]
- The Poets that Bloom in the Spring
- A Popular New Pastime in Smart Society—the Matinée Poétique [12]
- The Art Exhibition: Opening Day
- After All, There is Nothing Like Modern Sculpture to Stimulate the Imagination [13]
- A Week-End with the Recently Rich
- Showing that a Profiteer is Without Honour in his Own Country [14]
- On the Trail of the Concert Lovers
- “Among Those Present”—at all the Smart Concert Halls [16]
- The Trials of the Newly Poor
- A Heart-Rending Picture of Life as it is Lived Behind Aristocratic Doors [18]
- The Prize Fight Finally Gets into Society
- The Smartest Diversion is now the Science of the Swat and the Slam [20]
- Dreadful Moments in Society
- Embarrassing Little Episodes which Might Happen to Even the Best of Us [22]
- On the Trail of a Wife
- Détours on the Road to Matrimony [24]
- Divorce: A Great Indoor Sport
- It is Beginning to Rank First among our Fashionable and Popular Pastimes [26]
- Wild Bores We Have Met
- Question! Who—in Society—is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent Bore? [28]
- The Throes of First Love, in Society
- A Few Fashionable Little Variations on the Oldest Theme in the World [30]
- A Calendar of Popular Outdoor Sports
- As Practised among Persons of Breeding and Quality [32]
- The Seven Deadly Temperaments
- As Frequently Met With in the Ladies [34]
- Six Brands of Week-End Hostesses
- It’s a Lusty Life, if You Don’t Week-End [36]
- After-the-War Servant Problems
- How the Great Conflict Ended the Golden Days of Service in the Houses of the Elect [38]
- Advice to the Lovelorn
- What Every Girl Should Know, Before Choosing a Husband [40]
- The Open Season for Strikes
- If you Don’t See What you Want, Strike for It [42]
- The Art of Fashionable Portraiture
- You Can’t be Quite “It,” Without the Aid of a Modernist Artist [44]
- Social Superstitions
- With Very Special Obeisances to Cupid [46]
- Who’s Who—in the Audience
- Showing that the Smart Playgoer, Not the Smart Play, is Really the Thing [48]
- The Horrors of the Week-End
- From the Tortured Hostess’s Point of View [50]
- When Marriage Is a Failure—Cherchez La Femme
- Have You a Little Failure in Your Home? [52]
- Opening of the Opera Season
- The Opera Opened—To Crowded Boxes—With the Usual Performance of “Aïda” [54]
- Blighters at Bridge
- A Terrifying Triumvirate of Familiar Lady Auction Pests [55]
- The Way to Succeed on the Stage
- A Lady, Once a Creature of Fashion, and Now a Famous Actress, Tells of Her Success [56]
- Sports for the Summer
- The Increasingly Feminine Tone of Our Outdoor Diversions [58]
- Sea Bathing has become the King of All the Dry Sports
- Fashionable Debutantes Who Sojourn by the Sea [59]
- The Strategy and Finesse of Proposing
- Advance Leaves from the 1921 Handbook of Courtship. [60]
- Palmy Days at the Seaside
- Sights at the Bathing Resorts When the Season for Salt Water is Declared On [62]
- An Interview with a Great Dancer
- Privileged Peeps into the Soul of Mlle. Angeline, of Paris [64]
HIGH SOCIETY