A photo that was originally part of the New York Daily News Archive shows New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno at the tony Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. He is autographing a copy of "his latest opus" for socialite Mary Brown Warburton, granddaughter of John Wanamaker, the store merchant who, among other things, invented the price tag. She would be about 35 here and he 26. Getty Images dates this photograph to September 11, 1930 and that means the book he's signing is almost certainly Hullabaloo (1930).
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Note: See also my post about Peter Arno's visit to the yacht of John Wanamaker, Jr., Mary's uncle and another "notable," here. Arno apparently enjoyed good relations with this family listed in the Social Register.
Mary Brown Warburton's rather unsparing obituary in the Times may be found here. She was "about 42 years old" according to the 1937 notice.
Arno's Hullabaloo remains a very entertaining cartoon collection ninety-five years after publication. If you don't have one, get yourself a copy. See if it has a price tag.
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Copies of Arno books with interesting inscriptions or—better still—drawings are hard to come by but easy to share right here. You provide me with the images and I show them to the world through the miracle of blogging. It's what I do.
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