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CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER - 1921

In and About the Theatre

The Economical Bernard Shaw—By St. John Ervine 29

Three Faces East—Photographs 32

The Well-Made Revue—By Heywood Broun 33

Nora Bayes as Ethel Barrymore—Photographs 35

Fanny Brice—Photograph 40

Kyra—Photograph 47

The Monstrous Movies—By Charles Hansom Towne 51

Follies Vie with Follies—Photographs 52

Douglas Fairbanks—Photograph 54

The Irish Players—A Retrospect—By Ernest Boyd 55

The Moving Scenery of the Moving Pictures—By E. W. Kemble 56

Eleanor Painter—Photograph 57

Frances Starr—Photograph 64

The World of Art

A Peasant Madonna—By Lee Hankey 28

Recent Wood-Cuts by J. E. Laboureur 30

Sctdptures in Wood and Bronze by Ghana Orloff 38

From the Sketch Books of Augustus John 44

"Both Members of this Club"—By George Bellows 68

The World of Ideas

Getting Together—and How It Is Done—By Frank Moore Colby 31

Latter Day Helens: Hebe—By W. L. George 39

Puffeteers and Puffeteering—By Simeon Strunsky. 45

La Fausse Poesie—Paul Geraldy. 65

Literary Hors d'Oeuvre

The Pageant of the Ford—By Donald Ogden Stewart. 34

Rollo's Week-End in the Country—By George S. Chappell. 37

A Railroad Adventure—By Franz Molnar. 41

Powder, Rouge and Lip-Stick—By Nancy Boyd. 43

How I Succeeded in My Business—By Stephen Leacock. 46

A Hymn in Praise of the Critics—By Erik Satie. 49

The School Girl's Corner—By Donald Ogden Stewart. 53

The United States Secretary for Art—By D. Fulton Pomeroy. 61

The Flapper—A New Type—By Alfredo Panzini. 63

Satirical Sketches

Conradine in Search of Her Youth—Sketches by Benito. 36

Seven Reasons why Lovers of Burlesque Should Stay at Home— Sketches by George 42

Plotting a Curve in Three Minutes 48

When the Five O'Clock Whistle Blows at Hollywood—By Ralph Barton 50

Wild America—By Fish 38

The Manual of Fashions—Sketches by Sto 66

The World Outdoors

Sport for Art's Sake—By Heywood Broun 69

Lenglen the Wonderful—By Grantland Rice 70

The High Spot in Motorboat Racing—Photographs 71

Motor Progress in Accessories and New Bodies—Photographs 72

Late Summer Motor Gossip—By George W. Sutton, Jr. 73

European Motor Styles—By Gerald Biss. 78

Miscellaneous

The Financial Situation—By Merryle Stanley Rukeyser 12

The Younger School of Italian Composers—Photographs 60

Hall of Fame-Photographs 62

Counting Systems at 4uction Bridge-By R. F. Foster 67

For the IVell Dressed Man 74

Metropolitan Shopping Opportunities for Men 76

Volume 16 Number 7

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