Vanity Fair's school for actors

Above are a group of people important in public life, but none of whom, with the exception of the Vallées—here photographed on their honeymoon in what we hope is a non-professional moment —is in any sense a professional actor. Yet Vanity Fair has caught mirrored upon their faces such a variety of expressions, running the gamut of tenderest love to deepest pain, that it is hard to believe that each of them was not, in reality, being directed at the time by a von Sternberg or an Eisenstein. Actors could study them with profit; and laymen who find that public characters are colourless will enjoy in future searching the rotogravures for an occasional expression which will demonstrate anew the comforting platitude that famous people are after all human