Tragic Mansions Author:Lydig, Rita de Acosta (Mrs. Philip Lydig) Published in 1927... — All over America, to-day people are imitation the conduct and ideals of our fashionable rich society, the so-called 'smart set' of the East; and I am convinced that those ideals are false ideals, tragic ideals, and that it is suicidal for America to imitate them. They are not truly American. They are largely an importatio... more »n from abroad, and they much more pernicious here than they are in the social systems that originated them.« less