The Press, Aug. 22, 1932

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Vogue's Ladies

Four svelte, attractive ladies and a schoolgirl were grouped in a two-page water color by Artist Carl Ericsson in last week's issue of Vogue. Most Vogue readers saw what they were supposed to see: that each of the anonymous ladies was wearing a smart hat which specially befitted her age. A few observers noted something else: some of the faces looked familiar.

The white-haired dame with the patrician profile and shallow-crowned velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives, Vogue's associate fashion editor, sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal in last spring's Honolulu tragedy. Absent from the group was Editrix Carmel Snow of U. S. Vogue. The schoolgirl was a professional model.