After being granted an exclusive interview with the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, she was promoted to permanent staff and her salary was raised to $30 per week.
[5] During this time she freelanced and her short stories were published in various magazines including Harper's Monthly and Ladies' Home Journal.
[1] Manning had invested an inheritance from her father in the markets in order to supplement her husband's earnings, and the loss of this money in the Wall Street crash of 1929 caused the family financial hardship.
One is in the opening verse of George and Ira Gershwin's song "But Not For Me", from the 1930 musical Girl Crazy: Beatrice Fairfax, don't you dare Ever tell me he will care.
I'm certain It's the final curtain... Another is in the verse of the 1919 song "Take Your Girlie to the Movies", by Bert Kalmar, Edgar Leslie, and Pete Wendling: Beatrice Fairfax gives advice, To anyone in love; That's why Johnny Gray Wrote to her one day... A third is in the song "Nobody Makes a Pass at Me", from Harold Rome's 1937 revue Pins and Needles (later made famous by Barbra Streisand): Oh Beatrice Fairfax, give me the bare facts, How do you make them fall?
There is a poem by Kenneth Fearing entitled "Dear Beatrice Fairfax" in which he metaphorically lambastes social status as product guarantees[clarification needed].