Sixty years ago in Vanity Fair

Flashback

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford—Their Most Recent Portrait Internationally Famous, They Combine, in One Family, Two of the Most Celebrated Names in the World of Moving Pictures

The Prince of Wales continues to be one of the world’s conspicuously, but not exaggeratedly, well dressed men. Notice the dark blue chinchilla greatcoat he is wearing, and particularly note the slant of his pockets and the construction of the breast pocket in which he often wears a gay silk handkerchief.

Mrs. Horace Floyd-Fletcher deserves the Married Cross with Palms for the way she listens to Horace’s fourhundredth repetition of his longest funny story, the one in Yorkshire dialect which no one understands. Wise little lady, she doesn’t even interrupt when Horace misses the point, but seizes the opportunity to do a little quiet gorging.