VANITY FAIR

Contents for DECEMBER, 1925

FRANK Crowninshif.i.d—Editor

HKYWORTH Campbki.i.—Art Director

In and About the Theatre

Ethel Barrymore—In Shakespearean Repertory—Photograph 40

The Advancing Season—By Donald Freeman.44

Hungary's Foremost Dramatist—Ferenc Molnar .... 45

Madame La Marquise—Gloria Swanson.50

Horns and the Man—By Gilbert Gabriel.53

Pirandello, the Mystery Monger—By A. B. Walkley . . . 58

"Rain"-ing Again—Jeanne Eagels.59

The English Invasion of the American Theatre—Photographs .61

Charles Spencer Chaplin—A Comedy Maestro.64

One of the "Cradle-Snatchers"—Mary Boland . . . . . 70

You Aren't Mad, Am II—By E. E. Cummings.73

Maurice, and Barbara Bennett—Dancing at the Lido ... 75

The World of Art

New Masks by W. T. Benda in an Outdoor Setting ... 48

"'The Cliff Dwellers"—A Painting by George Belloses . . 55

The New New York—By Hugh Ferriss.66

The Rebirth of An American Artist—Winslow Homer . . 69

The World of Ideas

Al Smith: A Man of Destiny—By Walter Lippmann . . . 41

Marriage and the Law—By John Drinkwatcr .... 47

The Tone-Deaf Poets—By Winthrop Parkhurst and L. M. Hussey.54

Motion Pictures—An Art III!—By Douglas Fairbanks . 60 Music and Economics—By Virgil Thomson.76

Poetry and Verse

To Julia, Et Al.—By George S. Chappell.54

Literary Hors d'Oeuvres

The First Adventure—By Michael Arlen.42

A-Bout with Dempsey—By Jim Tally.51

"'The Cliff Dwellers"—A Note on the Painting by George Bellows—By Theodore Dreiser.55

The Inconstant Moon—By Margaret Case.57

The Lucky Find—By Colette.62

The Edinburgh Murders—By Edmund Pearson.65

Standardization: Or, 'The Revolt of lllusius—By Corey Ford .68

In the Grand-Stand-—By Milt Gross.72

The Silver Hilt—By Ferenc Molnar.74

Satirical Sketches

'The Vamps of Yesteryear—By Benito.43

Divorce Among "These Charming People" of Fashion— By Frans Maser eel.52

The Forming of the American Face—By Fish.46

The Slop and Go of Traffic's Flow—By Covarrubias . . . 56 'The Blushing Bride—By Helen E. Hokinson.63

Miscellaneous

Vanity Fair's College Humour Contest.71

The Hall of Fame.77

On Combining 'Tennis and Golf—by Mary K. Browne . . .78

Short Suit Bids at Auction—By R. F. Foster.79

Paris Offers the Fashion of Pyjamas....80

For the Well Dressed Man....81

Practical Gifts for the Motorist...84

European Molo ring—By John Prioleau...86