VANITY FAIR

July 1926

FRANK CROWNINSHIELD.r—Editor DONALD FREEMAN—Managing Editor HEYWORTH CAMPBELL—Art Director

Cover Design—By Allen Saalburg

In and About the Theatre

Independence and Insularity—By A. B. Walkley.......................48

Lenore Ulric, as Dolly Madison—Photograph .....................44

A Nation in Search of a Drama—By Donald Freeman............................45

Ina Claire, as Betsy Ross—Photograph ........................ 50

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, as the

Washingtons.............................55

Master Minds of Censorship—By George Jean Nathan.........................57

Madge Kennedy, as Mary Lindley Murray —Photograph..........................62

What Price Independences?—By Brock Pemberton..................71

When Broadway Was Very, Very Young— Photographs............................72

Alice Brady, as Molly Pitcher ... ............................77

The World of Art

The Early Stuart Portrait of Washington.............................. 40

The Sesqui-Centennial at Philadelphia—By Hugh Ferriss...........................................46

John Paul Jones—From the Bust by Houdon........................ 69

The World of Ideas

Hello, Big Boy—By Sherwood Anderson........................... 41

Our Colonial Ancestors—By Walter Prichard Eaton................................43

Way Up Town—By Heywood Broun . ..................... 51

New York a Century and a Half Ago—ByRobert Finster............................................61

This Florida Scene—By Theodore Dreiser............................ 63

Early American Pugilism—By Jim Tully........................ 74

Poetry and Verse

Two Poems—By Philip Freneau ..................... 42

Literary Hors d'Œuvres

Paul Revere's Ride—By Robert C. Benchley................. 54

No Peace Unto the Wicket—By Alexander Woollcott...........................56

The Day We Celebrate; And How—By Corey Ford . ..............................................58

The Boston Massacre—By Edmund Pearson.................... 66

Loud Speaker—By Margaret Case Morgan........................... 68

An Antidote From de Bustun Tippotty—By Milt Gross ................................75

The Great end Glorious Fourth—By George S.C Chappell...........................76

Satirical Sketches

Breaking the News to George III—By

Fish .... 49

A Governmental Contrast—By Covarrubias............................. 52

1776—Courtship Then and Now—1926— By Bolin ................................59

A Century and a Half of Progress in Three Diverting Phases of American Life—By Benito...........................64

Miscellaneous

The Wayside Inn, Sudbury—Photographs.......................... 60

The Hall of Fame...........................67

Signers of Our Literary Declaration of Independence—Photographs ....

The Well Dressed Man in Washington's Day.....................................78

Women of the World Then and Now ............................... 80

The Age of Invention Revolutionizes Travel..........................................82

Golf a Hundred and Fifty Years Ago—By Bernard Darwin................................84

The Games of Our Forefothers—By R. F. Foster..........................................86

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