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Aarons, Slim, 218 , 11 Academy of Music, 39 Architectural Heritage of Newport, Adams, Richard C., 171 , The (Preservation Adams, Thelma, 261 Society), 178 adultery, by socialites, 78 Armstrong, Louis, 191 “After Holbein” (Wharton), 96 Arnold, Benedict (Rhode Island Aitken, Annie Laurie, 241 governor), 28 Aitken, Russell, 241 Arthur, Chester A., 204 Alfred of Auersperg, 240–241 Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Aloha, 108 Community through Public Art Alva, 74 and Design, The (Fleming), 265 America, 199COPYRIGHTEDassistant MATERIAL butlers, 57 American Revolution, 13–17, 24, 171, Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn, 32–35, 189–190 33, 95–96 American Weekly, 160, 161, 177 Alva Vanderbilt and, 42–43 America’s Cup, 199–200, 202, Beechwood home of, 36–37 244–245, 268, 272 Empress Eugénie diamond and, Amory, Cleveland, 181, 207–208, 140, 143 224–225 gardens of, 105 Annandale Farm, 211, 216, 258 image of, 78, 79

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Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn “Battle Hymn of the Republic, The” (continued) (Howe), 29 Lehr and, 89 Bazaar Book of Decorum, The, 31 McAllister and, 78 beaches “Newport Four Hundred” and, 36, bathhouses, 69 159, 206 Easton’s Beach, 20, 25, 105–106 servants of, 57, 58, 63–64 privatization and, 26–27, 70, 230 Astor, Carrie, 42–43, 132 swimming costumes for, 20, 27, 71 Astor, Emily, 34, 71 See also Bailey’s Beach Astor, John Jacob, 34 Beacon Hill, 108, 125–127, 266 Astor, John Jacob IV, 102 Beard, Peter, 221–224 Astor, John Jacob VI, 138, 138–144, Beaulieu, 147–148 142, 224–225 “beautiful people” sketch (Bouché), Astor, Madeleine Force, 102–103, 139 193 Astor, Mary Jacqueline “Jackie,” 224 Beechwood, 25, 36–37 Astor, Vincent, 139 public access to, 254, 276 Astor, William, 144 servants of, 63–64 Astor, William Backhouse, Jr., 32, 34 See also Astor, Caroline Astor, William Waldorf, 37 Schermerhorn Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Jr., Belcourt, 81 186–188 as Belcourt Castle, 248–249 Auchincloss, Janet (daughter), and, 46, 50 213–216 Bell, Alexander Graham, 38 Auchincloss, Janet (mother), 186–188, Belle Brittan Here and There, 22 214 Bellevue Avenue, 2–4, 8, 24–25, Auersperg, Annie-Laurie, 241 36–37, 239. See also individual Australia II, 244–245 names of “cottages” Austria-Hungary, 118 Bellevue (hotel), 19 Avalon, 184, 258–259 Bellevue Terrace, 107–108 Bells, 2 Bailey, Joseph, 24 Belmont, Alva Smith Vanderbilt, Bailey’s Beach, 4, 25, 69, 97, 147 39–43, 40, 49, 54, 88, 131, 163 Cushing-Beard wedding and, autobiography plans of, 121–123 221–222 Caroline Astor and, 95, 96 “daybreak swimming” and, 111 chef of, 57 Pells at, 203 divorce from Vanderbilt, 79–81 Rhode Island Supreme Court deci- in Europe, 97 sion (1968), 228 hair dye routine of, 76–77 Tiffany Ball and, 194 Lehr and, 89 Baker, Winthrop, 263–264 built by, 46, 47, Baldrige, Letitia, 5, 192–198 47–48 Bard, John, 150 Marble House Chinese tea garden Barry, Dan, 278 of, 106 Baskt, M. Charles, 281 Newport Social Strategy Board and, bathhouses, 69 83–84

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reaction to World War I, 118 Brown, Mrs. John Carter, 171 servants of, 57 Brown, Nicholas, 153 Belmont, Oliver, 38, 97 Bruen Villa, 107, 157 Belcourt built by, 46, 50 Bruguiere, Daisy Post Van Alen, 5, marriage to Alva Vanderbilt, 79, 81 200, 207, 208, 214, 225, 226 marriage to Sara Whiting, 131 children of, 135, 183–184 Bennett, James Gordon, 72, 74, 205 Vanderbilt inheritance of, 150–151 Bernstein, Leonard, 181 World War II fundraising by, 153 Bertrand, John, 245 Bruguiere, Louis, 184 Berwind, E. J., 38, 49–51, 62, 105 Buchanan, T. Wiley, 228 Berwind, Julia, 153, 159, 209 Budlong, Jessie, 133–135, 171 Biltmore Hotel ( City), 156 Budlong, John, 134 blackout drills, 154 Budlong, Milton, 133–135, 171 “Blood Alley,” 234 Budlong, Milton, Jr., 134 Blue Bird, The (Maeterlinck), 109 bundling (bondle), 15 Blue Dolphin, 204, 223 Burke’s Peerage, 101 Blue Garden, 112 Burrill, Eleanor (French), 124–125, Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon, 164 133 book collections, private, 31 Buster (cockapoo), 279 Bouché, René, 202–203 butlers, 56–57, 60, 61 “beautiful people” sketch by, 193 sketch by, Cage, Nicolas, 260–261 180 calling cards, 31–32 Tennis Week sketch by, 201 Camelot Gardens, 250 Bourget, Paul, 51 Candy, Henry “Sugar,” 72 Bradley, Edson, 168 Capote, Truman, 4–5, 222, 280 Brayton, Alice, 129, 137, 208–209, Carey Mansion, 257 236 Carnegie, Andrew, 252, 255 Brayton, Edward, 129 Carnegie Abbey, 254–255 Brayton, Thomas, 125, 128, 129 Carolus-Duran, Charles Émile, 35 Bready, Cheryl, 275–279 Carpenter, Ralph, 256 Bready, Rick, 269, 273–278 Carrère and Hastings, 251 Breakers, 1, 48 Carriera, Joseph, 128, 129 Ball, 189–192 cars, “motoring” and, 93–94 II and, 48–49 Castello delle Regine, 271 public access to, 178, 236 Castle Hill (hotel), 239 Sirkis photo, 205, 206 Castles, 148–150 during World War II, 152 Caswell-Massey, 8 Brenton Cove, 152 Caterpillar Brigade, 156 Brittan, Belle, 22–23 Catholic Diocese of Providence, 169 Brown, Angela, 153 Chace, Judy, 250–251 Brown, Carter, 153 Chamber of Commerce (Newport), Brown, John Carter, 138 262–263 Brown, John Nicholas, 153, 234, 268 Champlin, Lawrence W., 171 Brown, John P., 171 Champ Soleil, 169, 241

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Chanler Hotel, 263 Common Beach, 70 Chanlers, John Winthrop, 175 Comstock Lode, 66 Charles, Marion “Oatsie,” 226, 238 Condé Nast, 271 Charles II, King of , 70 Condon, Eddie, 183 Château de Blois (), 42 Confessions of a Social Secretary Chateau-sur-Mer, 25, 207, 236 (Lowe), 120–121 chauffeurs, 60, 226–227 Conner, Dennis, 244 chefs, 57, 61–62 “conspicuous consumption,” 55 Chetwood, 139 Coogan, Harriet Gardiner, 99–102, Chicago Daily Tribune, 79–80 154–157, 161 , 64 Coogan, James, 99, 155 Chorley, Kenneth, 173–174 Coogan, Jay, 157 Civil War, 29, 40–41 Coogan, Jessie, 101, 156 Claiborne Pell Bridge, 234, 234–235, cooks, 57 261 Coronet, 270–271 Clambake Club, 74–75, 147, 187, 267 “cottages” Clarendon Court, 240–242, 246 anterooms of, 59 Clayton, Jack, 238 “cottage wars” and, 44–54 Clews, Bamboo, 98–99 early real estate and, 18, 19–20, Clews, Elsie, 71 23–25 Clews, Henry, Jr., 97–99, 100, 132 map of (1933), 146 Clews, Henry, Sr., 71, 97 public access to, 1, 178, 209–210, Clews family, 171 236, 254, 276 Cliff Lawn, 175–176 rented for weddings, 250 Cliffside Inn, 263–264 sales of, in 1940s, 162–169 Cliffside (Turner home), 115–116, 176 seasonal opening of, 8–10 Cliff Walk, 26–27, 230 “Vanderbuilding,” 44, 50 “climbers,” 32 as “white elephants,” 92–93 clothing. See wardrobe See also individual names of “cot- clubs, 69–75, 125 tages” de Savary and, 252–255 Cottrell, Pamela, 147 Eileen Slocum on, 281 Covell, William King, 171 in 1990s, 266–267 Cowsill, Bud, 227–228 O’Neill and, 255 Cowsills, 227–228 T. Suffern Tailer and, 127–129, 134 Crawford, Caroline, 109 See also individual names of clubs Crevecouer, Clemont, 14 Codman, Martha, 172, 264 Croker, Richard, 99 Codman, Ogden, Jr., 264 Cromwell, James, 229 Cohen, Earle, 244 Crosby, Bing, 191 Coletti-Perucca, Gertrude Gretsch, Crossways, 53, 82–83, 84, 103, 163 224 servants of, 61 colonial era, in Newport, 11–17 used for U.S. Navy personnel, 205 Colonial Williamsburg, 173–174 See also Fish, Marion “Mamie” coming-out parties, 85–86, 101, 187, Graves Anthon 213–216 Crowley, Paul W., 246 commissions, 63, 90 Curry, R. W., 53

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Curtis, Charlotte, 212–214, 220 Eileen Slocum and John Jacob Cushing, Fred, 217 Astor VI engagement, 138–144 Cushing, Grafton, 99 Mdivani “princes” and, 135–137 Cushing, Howard, 217 Dockery, Joe, 271 Cushing, Howard G., 217 “dollar princesses,” 80 Cushing, Howard Gardener, 98–99, Dooley (E. J. Berwind’s butler), 62 100, 217 Douglas, Barclay, 216 Cushing, Mary “Minnie,” 217, Downbeat, 182, 183 217–219, 220–224 downstairs maids, 59 Cushing, Thomas, 217 dowries, 80–81 Cushing family, 171, 204 Drexel, Elizabeth (Lehr), 90–91 Cutler, Judy Goffman, 254 Drexel, Mr. and Mrs. John, III, 215 Cutler, Laurence, 254 Drexel, Noreen, 198 Duchin, Peter, 222 “dancing by the mile,” 110–111 Dugan, Danny, 197 Dark Shadows, 242, 257 Duke, Doris, 229, 229–232, 236–237, Davis, Deborah 247–248 Party of the Century: The Fabulous Dunlap, Charles E., 209 Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball, 4–5, 280 Easton’s Beach, 20, 25, 105–106 Strapless: John Singer Sargent and Easton’s Point, 74–75 the Fall of Madame X, 4 “egosexia,” 176–177 Davis, Meyer, 181, 190, 215 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 184, 204, “daybreak swimming,” 111 210–211 de Barril, Maria, 58–59, 96 Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 225 debutantes Elliot, Maude Howe, 159 coming-out parties for, 85–86, 101, Elms, 1, 49–51, 60, 153, 209–210 187, 213–216 engineers, 60 “dancing by the mile” by, 110–111 “English” attitude, 60–61 See also individual names of debu- etiquette, 4–6, 5–6, 12, 14–15, 30–32 tantes Eugénie, Empress of , 140, 143 Decoration of Houses, The (Wharton, Evening, 261 Codman), 264 Evitts, Eric Henry, 225–226 de la Renta, Oscar, 218–219, 222 excursionists, 20, 68. See also tourism Dershowitz, Alan, 244 “extra men,” 124 de Savary, Peter “PdeS,” 251–255 “detrimentals,” 100 Fair, Birdie, 66 DiPrete, Edward, 246 Fair, Charles, 66, 82 Divine, Rev. Major Jealous (George Fair, James, 66 Baker), 148–150, 151 Fair, James Graham “Slippery Jim,” divorce, 79–81, 102, 130–132 66–67 Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and, Fair, Theresa Rooney, 66 79–81 Farrow, Mia, 238 Budlongs and, 133–135 Ferdinand, Archduke Francis, 118 “divorcing Frenches,” 132, Fersen, Count Axel von, 15–17, 16 140–144 fête champêtre, 25

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Field, Sara Bard, 121–123 French, Samuel Tuck, 132 Fielder, Pamela, 260 French, Stuyvesant “Stuyvie,” 123 Fish, Hamilton, 52 French, Virginia, 124 Fish, Marion “Mamie” Graves Frissell, Toni, 222 Anthon, 51, 52–54 Fuller, Hiram, 23 Caroline Astor and, 95 Confessions of a Social Secretary Gambrill family, 251 (Lowe) and, 120–121 gardens, 104–105 Coogans and, 100 Brayton and, 128, 129 Crossways and, 53, 84 gardeners, 60, 105 death of, 120–121 of , 67 Lehr and, 89 topiaries, 54, 128, 129, 208–209 at Masque of the Blue Garden, Georg, Alexander, 241 113–114 George III, King of England, 13 “motoring” and, 93–96 Geraghty, Jack, 132–133 Newport Social Strategy Board and, Geraghty, Julia Vanderbilt, 132–133 83–84 Germany, 154 parties of, 82–83, 91–92, 93–96, Getty, J. Paul, 241 103, 108–112 Gilded Age, A Tale of Today, The reaction to World War I, 118, 119 (Twain, Warner), 51 servants of, 61 Gilded Age, defined, 3, 51 women’s rights movement Gillespie, Dizzy, 181, 183 and, 107 Gillespie, Phyllis, 139 Fish, Stuyvesant, 52, 57–58, 84, Goelet, Elsie Whelan, 132 94–95, 110–111, 120 Goelet, Mary (daughter), 167 Fitzgerald, Ella, 181, 183 Goelet, Mary Wilson, 38–39, 45, Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 238 46–47, 110, 132 Fleischer, Nathan, 174–177, 236, Goelet, Ogden, 38, 49, 62, 105 263–264 Goelet, Robert, 38, 125, 132, 159, Fleming, Ronald Lee, 264–265 167–169, 241 Flower Show, 72 Golden Mashie Tournament, 129 Fogg Museum, 210 gold gilding, 51 footmen, 57–58 , 127–129, 134 Ford, David B., 260 Goodwin, W. A. R., 173–174 Forty 1° North, 266–267 Gooseberry Island Fishing Club, 74, France, American Revolution and, 147 14–17, 171, 189–190 governesses, 59 French, Amos Tuck, 123, 132 Graves Point Fishing Club, 74 French, Eleanor Burrill, 124–125, 133 Gray Craig, 258, 260–261 French, Ellen “Tucky.” See Guest, Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 238 Ellen “Tucky” Tuck French Astor Great Hurricane of 1938, 145–148, French, Francis O., 123–125, 133, 273–274 141–143 Greatorex, John, 112 French, Julia, 123 Green, Theodore Francis, 180 French, Ned, 123, 133 greenhouses, 105 French, Pauline (Wagstaff), 133 Grosvenor, John, 274

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Grosvenor, Richard, 270 The Breakers built by, 48, 48–49 Guest, Ellen “Tucky” Tuck French Marble House built by, 46, 47, 47–48 Astor, 124, 140–144, 142, 224 designed by, 46–47 Hunt, William Morris, 29 Habits of Good Society: A Handbook Hunter, Deborah, 16 for Ladies and Gentlemen, The, Hunter, Eliza, 16–17 30–31 Hunter House, 173 hair dye, 76–77 Hurricane Carol (1954), 274 Hamilton, Dorrance “Dodo” Hill, 266 Hutton, Barbara, 136, 229 , 186–188, 194, Hyatt Regency, 263 204, 210–211, 214, 250, 258 Hyde Park (New York), Hanson, Harle, 248 150–151 Harper’s Weekly, 20, 224–225 Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. E. H., 94–95 Illinois Central Railroad, 53, 95 Harvest Ball, 84 income tax, 117 Haskell, George D., 107 inheritance, primogeniture and, 162 Haussmann, Baron Georges-Eugène, International Yacht Restoration 37 School (IYRS), 269, 270–273 “heavens on earth,” 149 ironing, 59 Hedges, 159 Isle of Peace, 11 Hentoff, Nat, 182 Isles, Alexandra, 242 High Society, 191–192 Holiday, 177 James, Arthur Curtiss, 108, 112, 113, Holiday, Billie, 181, 185 125, 266, 270–271 Homer, Winslow, 20 James, Harriet, 108, 112–114, 118, “Home Sweet Home” (song), 83, 111 122, 125–127 Horse Show, 7 James, Henry, 29, 92–93, 164 Horticultural Exhibition, 105 Jamestown Bridge, 234 hotels Jazz in Newport, 200 in 1960s, 239 Jean-Bart, 190 in 1980s, 244 Joel, Billy, 277–279 in 1990s, 263 joggle board, 19 post-Civil War, 68 John, Elton, 276–277 post-Revolutionary War, 19, Jones, Bryan C., 266 20–22, 23 Jones, Edith “Pussy.” See Wharton, post-World War II, 175–176 Edith “Pussy” Jones housekeepers, 56, 60 Jones, George Frederic, 85 housemen, 57 Jones, George Noble, 24 House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 86–87 Jones, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, Hoving, Walter, 192, 195, 196 85 Howe, Julia Ward, 29 Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke, 92 Hull, Mr. and Mrs. George Huntington, 206–207 Karolik, Maxim, 171–173, 207, 264 Hunt, Joseph, 106 Kaufman, Angela, 148–150 Hunt, Richard, 106 Kaull, James T., 161 Hunt, Richard Morris, 36–37, 41–42 Keating, Agnes, 267

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Keating, Dan, 267 Life “keeping up with the Joneses,” 85 on Coogans, 156 Kelley, Grace, 190–192 “Life Visits a Fading Newport,” 167 Kennedy, Caroline, 212 on Niesen, 165 Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, Tiffany Ball and, 193, 196 194–195, 197, 198 on Turner, 177 as debutante, 186, 186–188 linen, 56 as first lady, 204, 213–216 livery, 57 plans for Annandale Farm, 210–211 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Kennedy, Joe, 187–188 28, 29 Kennedy, John F., 187–188, 194–195, Lorillard, Elaine, 179–188, 180, 203 197, 198, 204–205, 210–212 Lorillard, Louis, 179–188 Kennedy, Patrick, 215 Lorillard, Pierre, 57, 185, 194 Kenton, Stan, 182 Lorillard (tobacco company), 194 kickbacks, 63 Louis XVI Fantasy Ball, 103 , 236 Lowe, Corinne, 120–121 Kirby, Jerry, 272–273 Lydig, Rita De Acosta Stokes, 131 Kirby-Perkins Construction, 272 kitchen workers, 60 MacDonald, Charles, 127 Knickerbocker, Cholly, 136, 216 Mackay, William Andrew, 106 Knickerbocker Club, 123 Madonna and Child (Von Cleve), Knickerbockers, defined, 30 209–210 Koellisch, Kevin, 248–249 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 109 Konitz, Lee, 183 Malbone, Godfrey, 16 Mandeville, Viscountess, 42 La Farge, John, 29 Mann, Eugene, 63, 265 Lafayette, Count and Countess Marble House, 46, 47, 47–48, 79, Phillipe de, 190 81, 121 Lafferty, Bernard, 247–248 Chinese teahouse of, 106–107 Langley, Jane Pickens, 226, 264 sale of, 163 Lanin, Lester, 197–198 servants of, 60 laundresses, 59, 60 Tiffany Ball, 192–198, 198 Lauzen, Duc de, 14, 15, 16 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Lawrence, William Beach, 27 15, 17, 126 Ledges, 97, 171, 217–218, 222, 261 Markwith, Peter George, 258 Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel, 90–91 Marlborough, Duke of (Edwin Lehr, Harry, 88–92, 89, 94, 95, 96, William Spencer-Churchill), 119–120 80–81, 97 Leighter, Abraham, 164 Marner, Silas, 268 Leroy, Pauline (French), 123 Marriot, 263 Lester Lanin at the Tiffany Ball, “marrying Wilsons,” 38–39 197–198 Mary Matthew, Mother, 169 Levin, Becky Ruhmann, 258 masque, defined, 112 Levin, Mark, 258 Masque of the Blue Garden, 108, Lexus, 271 112–114 Liberty, 244 Mateos, Joseph, 147

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McAllister, Ward, 90 National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame, Caroline Astor and, 34–35, 36–38 184, 200 Mamie Fish and, 53 National Lawn Tennis Tournament, “Newport Four Hundred” and, 36, 73 159, 206 National Museum of American Society as I Have Found It, 78–79 Illustration, 254 William K. Vanderbilts and, 42 Native Americans, 11, 12 McKenzie, William, 273 Needham, Thomas H., 243 McKim, Charles, 44–45, 72 Negri, Pola, 136 McKim, Mead, White, 44–45 “Negroes in a Watermelon” (New McLoughlin, Maurice, 200 York Times), 92 McManus, Charles H., 166 “New Launch” (International Yacht Mdivani, Louise Van Alen, 135–137, Restoration School), 269, 150 270–273 Mdivani, “Prince” Alexis, 135–137 “new” money, 39, 61 Mdivani, “Prince” David, 136 Newport: A Lively Experiment Mdivani, “Prince” Serge, 136–137 1639–1969 (Stensrud), 282 Mdivani, Zakharias, 135 Newport: Blueprint for a City That Mecray, John, 270–271 Must Do, Develop, or Die Mekas, Jonas, 223–224 (Fleischer), 175, 236 Mendonca, George, 128 “Newport: There She Sits” (Harper’s), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 171, 210 224 House, 39 Newport Art Museum, 269–270 Meyers, Daniel, 258–259 Newport Bridge, 234, 234–235, 270 MGM, 191 , 45, 72, 74, 155 MGM Records, 227 Claus von Bulow and, 242 Middleton, Thomas, 19 John F. Kennedy and, 212 Mighty Atom (dog), 91–92 Newport Jazz Festival and, 181–188 Millionaire Households and Their Tennis Week, 155, 200–201, 201, Domestic Economy, 56 214 miniatures, 17 Newport (cigarettes), 194 , 102, 205, 259–260 Newport Club, 255 Morgan, E. D., 152 Newport Collaborative Architects, Morgan, J. Pierpont, 74 274 Morton (Mamie Fish’s headman), 61 , 73, 127, 129, Mother Goose Ball, 108–112 167, 187, 204 “motoring,” 93–94 Newport Daily News, 231, 239, 270 Mount Hope Bridge, 233 “Newport Decliched” (Vogue), 200 Muenchinger King (hotel), 239 “Newport Four Hundred,” 36, 159, Mulligan, Gerry, 181 206 Murray, Mae, 136 Newport Horse Show, 73 Museum of Fine Arts, 172–173, 210 Newport Jazz Festival Myself Among Others (Wein), 183 High Society and, 191 inception of, 179–188, 180 Nahant, Massachusetts, 28 in 1958, 200 Narragansett tribe, 12 Newport Journal, 104–105

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“extra men” and, 124 property taxes, 49, 191, 237, 257 fête champêtre, 25 Providence Journal, 185, 281 Harry Lehr and, 88–92, 89 Providence Phoenix, 266 Mamie Fish and Harriet James Puma, 271–272 (1913 season), 108–114 Newport Social Strategy Board and, quadrille (dance), 42–43, 83, 130 83–84 World War I fundraisers and, 118 Radice, Joseph, 231–232 during World War II, 154 Radziwill, Lee Bouvier, 186, 212, 214 See also McAllister, Ward; Rafn, Car Christian, 28 Preservation Society; individual Rainier, Prince of Monaco, 191–192 names of socialites Rammeau, Chef, 57 Party of the Century: The Fabulous Rathbone, Basil, 177 Story of Truman Capote and His rationing, 153 Black and White Ball (Davis), 4–5, Raynor, Seth, 127 280 Read, Ken, 271–272 Patriarch Ball, 35, 42 Reading Room, 71–72, 243 pedometers, 111 Red Cross, 153 Peixinho, John, 261, 269 Redford, Robert, 238 Pell, Claiborne, 202–203, 203, Redwood, Abraham, 12 210–212, 228 Redwood Library, 13, 29, 256 Pell, Nuala, 202–203, 203, 238 Reef, 2, 133, 171 personal maids, 59, 76–77 Rejects Beach, 70 Peterson, Oscar, 181 Rhode Island Development Council, Peter’s Wedding, 223–224 238 Philadelphia, 255 Rhode Island Episcopal Diocese, 205 Plimpton, George, 201–202 “Richard Grosvenor: Newport’s Point (Newport neighborhood), 237 Muse and Mentor” (Newport Art Porter, Cole, 191, 192 Museum), 270 Potter, Eliza, 21 Rives, George, 131 powder, for hair, 57 RMS Titanic, 102–103, 139 Powell, Adam Clayton, III, 281 Rochambeau, General, 14, 189 Powell, Sherman Scott, 281 Rochambeau de Vendôme, Marquis Preservation Society, 1, 178, 236, 237 de, 190 The Breakers Ball, 189–192 Rockefeller, John D., 173–174 Claus von Bulow and, 242 Rocks (Clews house), 97, 98, 171 Elms and, 209–210 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 150, 151 inception of, 170–174 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 149, 150 tourism statistics of, 262 Rosecliff, 2 Previews Incorporated, 151 film and, 238 primogeniture, 162 public access to, 236 Prince, Frederick H., 163 sales of, 163–167 Prince del Drago (monkey), 91 Tessie Oelrichs and, 63, 67, 81–82, Private Newport (Pardee), 274 96, 110 Prohibition, 118 Roselawn, 206

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Ross, Lillian, 182, 191 “silver gilts,” 32 , 231 Sinatra, Frank, 191 Royal Perth (Australia) Yacht Club, Sirkis, Nancy, 205–210, 206, 208, 210 244 Sixteenth Amendment, 117 Rubirosa, Porfirio, 229 “Skeleton in Armor, The” Rutherford, Winthrop, 80 (Longfellow), 28 Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. John Barry, 180 Skibo Castle (Scotland), 251, 252 slavery, 12, 16 Sabrina Fair (Taylor), 226 Slocum, Beryl, 281 Sakonnet River Bridge, 233 Slocum, Eileen Gillespie, 3–5, 187, Salinger, Pierre, 212 224, 227, 253, 280–281 , 169, 257 on Bailey’s Beach court decision, San Francisco Chronicle, 66 228 Saperstein, George, 266 Doris Duke and, 229 Sapolito, 9, 65 engagement to John Jacob Astor Sargent, John Singer, 4, 202 VI, 138, 138–144 Saturday Evening Post, 120 Slocum, John Jermaine, 144 “Saunterings” (Town Topics), 63 Smith, Alfred, 23–25, 69 Sceptre, 199–200, 202 Smith, Alva. See Belmont, Alva Smith Schermerhorn, Caroline Webster. See Vanderbilt Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn Smith, Joseph Lindon, 112, 125 Schrallhammer, Maria (von Bulow Social Index, 10 maid), 242, 243 social season, defined, 7–10, Seafair, 269 37–38, 214 “Sea Serpent Polka” (Strakosch), 28 social secretaries, 9–10, 58–59, 60 , 167–168, 242, 257 Social Strategy Board, 90 Sentient Jet Membership, 271 Society as I Have Found It Serbia, 118 (McAllister), 78–79 servants, 9–10, 61–67 society columns, 13, 265 and, 122 Curtis and, 212–214, 220 bequests for, 247–249 Mann and Town Topics, 63, 86, 265 commissions of, 63, 90 on Newport divorces, 136 jobs of, late nineteenth century, on 1913 parties of Mamie Fish and 55–61 Harriet James, 111–112 in late 1960s, 225–227 scandals reported by servants, 63 of The Reef, 134 “Some Tea Table Confidences” of Rosecliff, 63, 67 (New York Times), 82 routines of socialites and, 76–77 on Tessie Oelrichs, 82 salaries of, 60, 63 See also individual names of newspa- social climbing among, 64 pers and magazines World War I and, 118–119 society gardeners, 105 “shake a leg,” 111 “Some Tea Table Confidences” (New Shipman, Julia, 168 York Times), 82 “shoddy,” 61 Sophie, Duchess, 118 Siegel, Sol, 191–192 Southampton, New York, 213

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Spencer, Howland, 149 tea, 4, 106, 227 “spite fence,” 99, 100 telephones, 10 “spite” sales, 149–150 Ten Mile Drive (Newport, Rhode Spouting Rock Beach Association, Island), 146 69–71 tennis St. James Clubs, 252 Jimmy Van Alen and, 184 St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 188, 212 National Lawn Tennis Tournament, St. Patrick’s Day (2007), 264 73 stationery, 10 Tennis Hall of Fame, 184, 200 Stensrud, Rockwell, 282 Tennis Week, 155, 200–201, 201, Stevens, Henry “Harry,” 86 214 Stillman, Mary A., 104–105 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 38 Stoner, Sherman, 168 Thames Street, 19, 236 Stone Villa, 205 Theophilus North (Wilder), Strakosch, Martin, 28 238–239 Strange, Michael, 77 Theory of the Leisure Class, The Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the (Veblen), 55 Fall of Madame X (Davis), 4 Tiffany and Company, 61, 192–198 suffragettes, 97, 107 Tiffany Ball, 192–198, 198 Sullivan, John J., 183 Tiffany Diamond, 195–197 Sullivan, Julia, 108, 157–161, 160 Time, 149, 183, 202, 245 Sullivan, Timothy “Timmy,” 157–161, Tinney, Donald, 248 160 Tinney, Harle Hanson, 248 Sulzberger, Punch, 213 Tinney, Harold, 248 “Summer Soiree” (Newport Art Tinney, Kevin Koellisch, Museum), 269–270 248–249 Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 99, Tinney, Ruth, 248–249 228, 244 Tirella, Eduardo, 230–231 SVF Foundation, 266 topiaries, 54, 128, 129, 208–209 Swiss Village (Surprise Valley Farm, Toppa, Mike, 272 Beacon Hill), 125–127, 266 tour guides, 68 Szechenyi, Countess Laszlo, 178 tourism at Easton’s Beach, 105–106 Tailer, Mrs. T. Suffren, 110 excursionists, 20, 68 Tailer, T. “Tommy” Suffren, 125, hotels closed to, 68 127–129, 134 in nineteenth century, 26–30 Tammany Hall, 99, 101 post-Revolutionary War, 18–25 taxes post-World War II plans for, High Society storyline and, 191 174–178 income tax, 117 private clubs and, 69–75 Preservation Society and, 237 Swiss Village (Beacon Hill) and, property taxes, late nineteenth 127 century, 49 urban renewal of late 1960s, tax-exempt status of “cottages,” in 235–236 1990s, 257 von Bulow trial and, 243–244 Taylor, Samuel A., 226 See also Preservation Society

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Touro Park, 28 Vanderbilt, Grace Wilson, 132, Town & Country, 75, 193, 212, 217, 147–148, 159 217, 218 Vanderbilt, Harold S., 41, 163 Town Topics, 63, 86, 265 Vanderbilt, Julia (Geraghty), 132–133 triangle trade, 12 Vanderbilt, William, 39 Trinity Church, 145, 148, 221, 236, Vanderbilt, William K., 38, 41–43, 74, 281 79–80, 122, 123 Trumbauer, Horace Vanderbilt, William K., Jr., 41, 93 Clarendon Court and, 241 “Vanderbuilding,” 44, 50 The Elms and, 49–51, 60 Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Peyton J., Miramar and, 102 158–161, 160 Turner, Beatrice, 115–116, 176–177, VASS (Van Alen Scoring System), 184 263–264 Veblen, Thorstein, 55 Twain, Mark, 51 vermeil, 195 , 251, 253–254 United Nations, 167–168 Viking Hotel, 239, 244, 263 upstairs maids, 59 Vikings, 28 U.S. Navy, 29–30, 152, 154, 205, 237 Viking Tours, 244 US Weekly, 261 Vogue, 199, 202, 218 von Bulow, Claus, 241–244, 246 Van Alen, Candace “Candy,” 184, von Bulow, Cosima, 241 214, 258–259 von Bulow, Martha “Sunny” Bouché sketch of, 201 Crawford Auersperg, 240, in The Great Gatsby, 238 240–244, 246 “Newport Decliched” (Vogue), Von Bulow Affair, The (Wright), 242 200–201 Von Cleve, Joss, 209–210 Van Alen, Daisy. See Bruguiere, Daisy Post Van Alen Wagstaff, Pauline French, 133 Van Alen, James, 71, 118, 135, 150 Wagstaff, Samuel, 133 Van Alen, James “Jimmy” H., Wakehurst, 135, 207, 257 183–184, 224, 258–259 Wall Street Journal, 257 Van Alen, Louise. See Mdivani, Walsh, Mary, 245 Louise Van Alen Walsh, Thomas, 93 Van Alen, William, 150, 274 Walsh, Vinson, 93–94 Van Clief, Ray Alan, 167 wardrobe, 10, 23 Vanderbilt, Alfred G., 105, 132 image of socialites and, 77 Vanderbilt, Alice, 48 in late 1960s, 220–221 Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, in nineteenth century, 27, 31, 35, 71 39 parasols and, 31, 71 Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 41, 80–81, 97 servants’ responsibilities for, 59 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II, 38, 48, swimming costumes, 20, 27, 71 48–49, 178 Waring, Colonel, 93 Vanderbilt, Cornelius “Neily,” III, 39 Warner, Charles Dudley, 51 Vanderbilt, Elsie French, 132 Warren, George Henry, Jr., 170, 181, Vanderbilt, Frederick W., 150–151 182

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Warren, Katherine Urquhart, Whiting, Sara, 131 170–174, 182 Who Tells Me True (Strange), 77 on Bailey’s Beach court decision, Widener, Eleanor, 103 228 Widener, George, 102–103 The Breakers Ball and, 190 Widener, Harry, 103 Doris Duke and, 236 Wildacre, 253 Elms and, 209–210 Wilder, Thornton, 238–239 on social calendar, 214 Wilhelm, Prince of Sweden, 95 Warren, Whitney, 74 Williams, Roger, 138, 168 Washington, George, 14, 150 Wilson, Belle, 39 Washington Post, 97, 99, 100 Wilson, Carrie Astor, 42–43, 132 Washington Post & Times Herald, 211 Wilson, Grace, 39 Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Wilson, Melissa, 39 Citizens of New York, The, 33 Wilson, Orme, 39 Wein, George, 181, 183, 184 Wilson, Richard T., 38–39 Wetmore, Edith, 137, 156, 171–172, women’s rights movement, 97, 107, 185, 207, 208 121–122 Wetmore, Maud, 137, 156, 171–172 Women’s Wear Daily, 213 Wetmore, William, 25 Wood, Charles Erskine, Wharton, Edith “Pussy” Jones, 85, 121 85–87, 96, 264 Worden, Helen, 155 Wharton, Edward, 86 World War I, 118, 124 Whatever Happened at Annandale World War II, 152–154 Farm? (Markwith), 258 Wright, William, 242 Wheeler, Henry S., 148 White, Stanford, 44–45, 53 yachting, 74 Brenton Cove and, 152 America’s Cup, 199–200, 202, Hyde Park and, 150 244–245, 268 Newport Casino and, 72 International Yacht Restoration Rosecliff and, 67 School (IYRS), 270–273 Whitehall and, 99 “You Dig It, Sir? (New Yorker), 182 “white elephants,” 92–93 Young, Samuel A., 70 Whitehall, 99–102, 154–157 Young Lady and Gentleman Whitehouse, Mrs. Sheldon, 190, Instructed, A, 12 196–197 Young Lady at Home and in Society, Whitfield’s (hotel), 19 The (Tuthill), 31

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