VANITY FAIR

LITERATURE

DRAMA

ART

MUSIC

HUMOR

SPORTS

JANUARY, 1924

Frank Crowninshield—Editor

Cover Design—By Bolin

In and About the Theater

Margaret Severn: A .Modern Nereid—Photograph 31

Distinguished Foreign Actresses Appearing in New York—Photographs....................32

Re-enter, the Prince and the Princess—By Alexander Woollcolt.....................33

The Triumphal Return of the Famous Moscow Art Players—By Boris Grigoriev.....................35

Walter Hampden, as Cyrano dc Bergerac—Photograph ............................36

Some Makers of Ecstasy in the Theater—By Gilbert Seldes................................. 45

A Group of Hamlets—Photographs.............49

The Theater of Max Reinhardt—By Richard Ordynski................... 50

A British Actress in Her American Debut .............. 51

The Wedding in the Faff el Tower—Photographs 53

Lucrezia Bori, inthe Last Act of " Romeo and Juliet"—Photograph................60

Fred Stone, and His Miraculous Daughter, Dorothy—Photographs................... 64

Fanny Brice, a Tragic Comedienne—Photograph 67

The World of Art

The Madonna of the Angels—Wood-Carving by Ivan M estrovic...................... 26

John Singer Sargent—Photograph............ 46

An American Sculptor's Impressions of the Spanish Bull Ring—By Hunt Dicdrich.............54

The Crucifixion—A Painting by George Bellows 56

The World of Ideas

The Modern Girl—and Why She is Painted— By Richard LcGalliennc...............27

Ambassador Harvey: A Thicker-lhan Water Color —By Philip Gucdalla....................34

The Pro per Study of Mankind—By D. H. Lawrence 48

Jean Cocteau: A Master Modernist—By Clive Bell...........52

The Past, the Present and Mr. II. G. Wells —By Philip Guedalla....................57

Hey worth Campbell —Art Editor A City of the Spirit—By Edmund Wilson . ................ 63

Poetry and Verse

"I'm Going Back, Back, Back to Akron, Ohio" —By Robert E. Sherwood...................39

Today in History—By Stephen Leacock .................. 47

On a Night of Rain—By Babette Deutsch .......... 57

The New Spoon River—By Edgar Lee Masters 61

Tea—By Jacqueline Embry......................100

Literary Hors d'Oeuvres

The Higher Aesthetic of the Necktie—By IIcywood Broun.........................37

Follow My Leader—By Aldous Huxley . ...40

Famous Events Which I Have Nearly Seen—By George S. Chappell.......................43

Mr. Zimbalist, the "Titian" Strad, and Antonio Stradivari—By Samuel Chotzinoff.................. 59

Satirical Sketches

Familiar Figures of the Screen World—By Benito 29

The Pleasant Art of Caricature—By Miguel Covarrubias...............38

How Docs a Chicken Cross the Road?—By A ugust Henkel................... 42

You Can Tell by the Dog—By Charles Marlin 62

Miscellanenceous

"The Most Disgraceful Thing I Ever Did"— The Prize Awards....................30

The Spirit of Mali Jong—By Ii. F. Foster . ........... 44

The Hall of Fame.......................38

American and British Golf Architecture—By Bernard Darwin....................63

The Systematic Selection of a Lead in Auction— By R. F. Foster...............66

For the Well Dressed Man..................68

Our London Letter on Men's Fashions ....... 70

The French Dictate Coming Automobile Tendencies—By C. S. Biss ....71

Automotive Thoughts Become Hectic—By George W. Sutton, Jr. ................................72

Reviews of the New Books—By Burton Rascoe 104