Show CHS SALT LAKE IEBIBUNH SUNDAY MOSNINO PEHTM?KH 13 1938 Z2 So the “400” Wonders What’s Ahead for Pair Who Put 9 r -- I a Peke1 Among the Astors Morgans By Nancy Madison TVTEVER before has the Social Reg -I liter which is the Burke’s Peer-- T age and Almanach de Gotha of this democracy found occasion for scratching a Mayfai rite’s name from its' gilt-edgpages for “putting on the dog" But new history is in the making And what may be the reproof if any its editors will decree for attractive Mfs George L K Morris the former Estelle CFrellhghuysen of the East Nineties and Lenox Mass now is the subject for much excited conjecture along Park Avenue Foir it was Mrs Morris who gave readers of the Register the only laugh they have found in its pages tor many a year by having her unpedigreed red Pekingese solemnly listed after the names of herself and Mr Morris who is an artist as a junior— “Miss Rose” Just like this: ' ed Morris V Kewbold (Helen S Kinplanri) I J MomU’SwphsnuRVC-ntAmcnranlimlxiasyKom- lUwsmrOcoLK (Ertclki C Fnlinhuysen)ii p4 Grinriclljr j KT5061l munis UB“Ra (Katharine Moms 1' Grinnell ejBIT John O VillowroUj V e Treat a dog kindly and he is your best friend Play a practical Joke on him and get him into the Social Regis -ter and he may still be your best friend But will the Social Register? The Social Register has tor 49 years enjoyed the unique position of electwithout ing the social their say-s- o and listing their names addresses telephone numbers and club connections Into a small compact pocket-size- d black book which is subsequently prized by all included therein social secretaries charity seekers and such businesses as benefit from knowing addresses and telephone numbers they could not otherwise procure so simply and effectively Of course “Miss Hose” will be dropped from the next edition which will have a well-bre- d line awaiting it at every stop of the postman in the Soclalited-u- p East Side when it comes out in December But as to what will happen to the names of George and Estelle Morris —one guess is as good as another The editors of the sacrosanct volume are as silent as the tomb of the late Louis Keller the founder of the publication although there are reports that he blue-bloo- “Breeches Bible” of the Middle Ages occasioned For is double-barrele- d reflecting both on the 27000 names already listed and upon those who have been delisted or never included at all Among these latter persons are New York's Governor Herbert Lehman and New York City’s Mayor Florello La Guardla And to add to the tension in the atmosphere at the sedate’ unpretentious offices of the publication the Broadway wiseacres have been letting the quips fall fast and where they may “The Social Register" they cry “ has tossed out tie pugs but is now letting in the pekes “ Referring of course to the champ Gene Tunney who didn’t make Regis -ter grade after his marriage to the former Polly Lauder — ds -- HE imposing list of personalities considered de trop tor one reason or another by New York’s Social Blue Book in recent years would make a book by themselves Kay Francis lost her place in its exclusive pages when she embarked upon the dazzling Hollywood career 'that lifted “her to movie-fam- e The more showy you are the bigger a figure you are in society but if you go into professional show business you go out of the Social Register as Jans Wyatt Rosalind Pinchot Hope Williams and others have learned Mrs Phyllis Potter followed Gene Tunnes bride Polly Lauder into the limbo of the socially delisted when she married Fred Astaire even though Fred’s sister married 'the heir of the Duke of Devonshire and Fred himself-ha- s more close friends in the Social Register like the Whitneys than the editors of the Blue Book themselves have Precedent indicates that the “MISS ROSE” AND HER SPONSOR Haughty Though Unpedigreed the Only Dog to Make the Social Register Poses with Her Mistress Mrs George L K Morris Whose Connections Won Her the "Blue Book” Rating ister” one who is acquainted with its Jr SHE JOINED THE DOGGY SET Artist’s Drawing "From the Life” of the Hardest Door in New York to Crash —the Plain Portals of the Social Register — with "Miss Rose” the Only Dog Ever to Get Past Them Figuratively Entering turned over when the latest edition of this always “Ghostwritten” Who’s Who appeared But socialites are having no difficulty imagining the editors' embarrassment over the circumstances that their summer 1930 volume has become a collector’s the son of one of the Four Hundred's most notable leaders "Nelly” perhaps has only himself to blame He typed his way right out of the elegant volume having been society’s cross ever since he decided be was a writer His “Farewell to Fifth Avenue” issued a couple of seasons ago was quite prophetic After that one the Social Register waved right back and fanned him out Beautiful Claire Booth Brokaw was another blueblood who wrote her way out of 'the Social Register as editor playwright and essayist Ellin Mac-ka- y eliminated herself by marrying Irving Berlin the song writer but other members of her family remained After Mr and Mrs James Stillman Leonard Kip Rhinelander and Harry K Thaw became headliners in the J It took him five years to establish it as an authority on who’s who in Mayfair which has grown in prestige to this day Since his death its publication has been continued by Charles Keller Beekman a nephew who was made executor of the Keller estate and Keller’s secretary Bertha M Eastmond Under the Keller will Miss Eastmond who lives unpretentiously in Summit N J was stipulated to be "employed for life" by the Social Register Association and that of the annual she be given net profits less the amount of her salary of $10000 annually But who edits the Social Register is a secret Everything about it is secret except the names Incorporated in its pages and the price of the book itself One seeking specific information at N one-ten- mysterious workings told this magazine "But that is not Sufficient It you tor example aspire to the Social Register you must have one person already in it recommend you “Then you must have eight or twelve other subscribers the more the better send letters recommending you to the one who is going to write the letter of nomination ” This one sends all the letters together with speci&o end genealogical reasons or your recommendation to The Social Register 381 Park Avenue New York City No acknowledgment is ever made 0 any communication regardless what it may be "No one ever knows it the recommended person or persons will be admitted until the next issue 0 1 the book is published “It the person is admitted bis or her name is printed in it and be receives a copy ot the issue and a subscription bill and from then on he pays $7 yearly “Once you are ’ dropped from the Social Register you can never "return " th Item like the THEY’RE WHICH is the chief reason society ' waits with excited expectancy to learn if Mr and Mrs George L K Morris’ practical Joke will meet with unmitigated disapproval or be accepted in the spirit it was meant— humorously Society will leant If practical Joking is frowned upon by the Social Register and regarded as scandalous as divorce murder and marrying ladies or gentlemen with no family tree upon which to hang reputations or occupations But the answer will not be known for another four and a half months not until the January 1937 Social Register is published Mrs Morris in the meantime is studying voice in Europe Mr Morris planting landscapes at their summer home in Lenox Mass is a lit- OUT tle weary of it all “Darn it he told this zine maga- "that was never supposed to be publishedl I guess my wiie did it for a little joke but I SUj Mrs Gene Tttnney Kay Francis Scintil- lating Screen Star (Left) Lost Her Blue Book Rating When She Entered the Film World Among Other of the Host of Prominent figures Dropped from the Social Register Pages for Reasons Small y V Great and Are Shown Yet’ a Peke Without a Pedigree lade the Above And Grade! Dupont bride of Movie Actor Randolph Scott will also be eliminated from the Register Trim Marjorie Oelrichs who committed the Social Register sin ot marrying outside of her class was punished for it As Marjorie Oelrichs Duchln wife of Eddie Duchin the orchestra leader and drugstore clerk her name was omitted And not only does the chaste black tome pointedly overlook the beautiful Barbara' Hutton the heiress who is now the wife of Count CUrt mark the Haugwitz-Reventlo- of w Den- It has erased from its listings curly-haire- d Cornelius Vanderbilt Copyright 1938 as far news they became as the Social Register was concerned The unfortunate marriage ot Clenden-i- n Ryan Jr caused him to be dropped after it received much attention The families of all these were spared Even a President’s son isn’t able to escape Social Register ostracism Eliot Roosevelt was dropped after his divorce and remarriage without explanation It has been the policy of the Social Register authorities never to make any explanations whatever not-a-line- rs THAT policy has been in effect ever since it was first compiled back in 1887 by Louis Keller of Short Hills King Features Syndicate Inc the Sociaf Register offices on Park Avenue finds himself in a tableless chairless cheerless cubby-hol-e reception room on the eleventh floor His Bight of the inner office is effectively blocked by a worn mahogany and Florentine glass partition He is privileged to go tooa small window much too small to gratify curiosity and ahem loudly for attention A girl rises from a desk that is Dickenesque in its shabbiness All she replies is “We have nothing to say” “Family tree club and social associations and sometimes but rarely business position plays an important part in getting into the Social Reg-- didn’t know about it at the time Mrs Morris la the granddaughter of the late Frederick T Frelinghuyaen Secretary of State lit the cabinet of Presi- dent Arthur Mr Morris a Yale graduate and artist of note Is descended from a Colonial family which founded the section of New York City known as Morrlsania Among his ancestors is General Lewis Morris Miss Rose the Innocent subject of the tempest Is with her master Jog-giabout her business as usual en- - ' joying the freedom of cultivated lawns and lavishing her affection upon her master She won’t be Interested In J the least when Social Register readers hurriedly scan its pages next December and exclaim: “Dog gone!" ng |