Aubrey's Arrested Individuality

A very short story

The sad tale of Aubrey Rockmettler Devine, known to the world as the husband of Adelaide Brewster Moggs thanks to his wife's fame. Then he gets his chance to be known for himself ...

Characters

Aubrey Devine	husband of Adelaide Brewster Moggs Devine
a news editor

Publishing Information

May 1915 in Vanity Fair magazine under the pseudonym P. Brooke Haven.

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Notes and Quotes

Virginia Terhune van der Water
- co-author with Mary Virginia Terhune of Marion Harland's Complete Etiquette.
Mary Raymond Shipman
- (1860-1936) an American author.
Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
- (1883-1967) American author of The Nest Builder and What Women Want amongst other books.
Eva Tanguay Robinson
- (1878-1947) a vaudeville performer as Eva Tanguay, known as 'The Girl Who Made Vaudeville Famous'.
Irene Franklin Chesterfield-Bodsworth
- Irene Franklin (1876-1941), American revue lyricist and performer.

President Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson (1883-1924), the 28th President of the United States (1913-21).
William J. Bryan
- (1860-1925) a leading orator and Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, 1900 and 1908 before becoming Secretary of State.
Jack Johnson
- probably referring to John (Jack) Johnson (1878-1946), the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world (1908-15).
Vernon Castle
- (1887-1918) English born dancer who, with his wife Irene, was a great hit on both sides of the Atlantic. He died in a flying accident.
Billy Sunday
- (1862-1935) a famous preacher and prohibitionist from Detroit.
George M. Cohan
- (1878-1942) US vaudeville and musicals star. (A bronze statue of him now stands in Times Square.)
John D. Rockefeller
- (1839-1937) US multi-millionaire, once the richest man in America, also a philanthropist.

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This story may be available on the internet - free - subject to copyright laws in your country. (I cannot reproduce it here.)