SOCIAL SECRETS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 5

SOCIAL SECRETS.

How do I get my photograph in the smarter illustrated weeklies?”’■ (asks Nathaniel Gubbjns in bis hook, “The Diary of the Worm”)'. ‘Every social climber will be asking this question during the London season, when all the best people fight like alley cats for publicity." As a matter of fact, ijt’s ds easy as getting fin. invitation to an ‘in. aid of’ tea (all lor charity, my dear, and such smart people). My method is to take a friend with a camera to, any fashionable function and rnix, with the gathering like a pickpocket. I thou signal to- my friend with a camera, sidle up to Lord B. aud say, ‘E’xcuse me, .sir, hut could you tell me the time?’

“Aly friend.then takes a snapshot, and before Lord B. can call the police we are in the London train. The next week you are amazed to see a smart illustrated photograph of Lord B. glaring with horror at my loud guaranteed Harris,' plus-fours extra) tweed suit, and underneath the caption, “Lord Bi chatting to Mr Gubbins (right)’.” “You. wonder also how I get my exclusive society gossip. It is just simple. I go to the'theatre without a ticket, hang about the foyer and wait for a'duchess to come up to breathe. I jostle up to her and say, ‘Good evening, duchess. A poor show, don’t you think?’ She usually says . ‘Yes, in case I am somebody of importance, and passes on, blowing like an angry wbalc. The next day you read; T was chatting last night to the Duchess of C., and she agreed with mo that the new play at the ...is a flop.