When I read Katie Gee Salisbury’s recent interview with Susan Blumberg-Kason over at Half-Caste Woman, their conversation rang a lost bell for me. Susan’s new biography, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon, tells the story of Bernardine Fritz, who was like a cross between Gertrude Stein and the famous DC hostess Perle Mesta, except Bernardine was holding court in Shanghai from 1929 to 1937—the same …
