Veep Reached, Emily Reacted!

Mrs. Emily Post, arbiter of social etiquette, had recently given out an opinion stating it would be “social death” to blunder in the important matter of arranging place cards without a ruling from the Secretary of State.

BE SEATED, MRS. GANN!

ABOVE LEFT, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, sister and official hostess of Vice President Curtis, who was accorded the social status which would normally be accorded the wife of a Vice President, at a meeting of the Diplomatic Corps today. Right, Mrs. Emily Post, arbiter of social etiquette, who recently gave out an opinion stating it would be “social death” to blunder in the important matter of arranging place cards without a ruling from the Secretary of State; lower right, Vice President Curtis, who demanded that his sister be given equal rating with him on dinner party seating lists. — San Pedro News Pilot, April, 1929

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