II. Die New Yorker High Society in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren
351. »Getting Your Name in Print« – Mediale Sichtbarkeit und High Society-Status
When Mai Duncan Watson […] announced her engagement to […] »Freddie« Frelinghuysen, her photographic likeness appeared almost daily over a period of several months in the society columns and magazines. In the matter of being pictured in the prints Mai was the Babe Ruth of her day. This spring the former »Peggy« Stout, Lawrence Copley Thaw’s bride of a week, has, it would seem, eclipsed Mai Frelinghuysen’s hitherto unchallenged record for ›space‹ and pictures. Printing »Peggy’s« classic profile has, apparently, become a habit in certain sections of our metropolitan newspaperdom and while it must be admitted the Edward Martin Stout’s daughter is easy to look upon, it is a bit wearying to see her gazing out from the page every time one happens to open a daily, weekly or monthly. Just how »Peggy« ever had time to strike attitudes for all the pictures that have been served up for public consumption, and still have a few moments left in which to say »I will,« is a mystery I will not even attempt to solve.[1]