VANITY FAIR

Contents for February, 1927

FRANK CROWNINSHIELD—Editor DONALD Frkkman—Managing Editor HEYWORTH CAMPBELL—Art Director

In and About the Theatre

Toscanini Again In America—Photograph 38

Beth Merrill in "Lily Sue"—Photograph 44

The Constant Nymph—By Donald Freeman 45

Montgomery and Stone—Redivivus—Photograph 49

Frank Borzage—By Jim Tally. 50

Note of a Great Event—By George Jean Nathan. 54

Mlle. Yvonne Printemps of Paris—Photograph 55

Strike Up The Band!—Photographs 56

Odette, Where Is Thy StingP—By Alexander Woollcott. 60

"The Pirates of Penzance"—Photographs 61

The Youngest Generation—Lois Moran—Photograph 62

Mr. and Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld—Photograph 72

Male, Female and American Drama—By Gilbert W. Gabriel. 73

A New Hero of the Films—Ronald Colman —Photograph. 76

The World of Art

Recent Paintings by Tamara de Lempitzka 47

Victory Overseas—Sculpture by Paul Manship 65

The World of Ideas

The Foreign Debt and America—By Clarence Darrow. 39

Five Times Convicted of Murder—By Edmund Pearson. 57

Coolidge and 1928—By Walter Lippmann 63

The Truth About the Universities—By Aldous Huxley. 64

Prohibition—By Sherwood Anderson 68

America's Severest Critic—H. L. Mencken— Photograph. 69

Poetry and Verse

The Victim Speaks—By Theodore Dreiser 40

Literary Hors d'CEuvres

The Happy Island—By Paul Morand 41

Ice Skating for Ladies—By Corey Ford 42

Be It Ever So Humble—By Heywood Broun 46

A Definition of Terms—By David Cort 48

The Almost Jealous Husband—By Ferenc Molnár. 51

The Truth About Dining Out—By Geoffrey Kerr. 67

A Little Thing Like That—By Maddy Vegtel 70

Satirical Sketches

Present-Day Parents—By Fish. 43

The Annual Artists' Ball—By Alan Odle 52

"Samuel Pickwick"—By George Belcher 59

By Their Gods Ye Shall Know Them—By Covarrubias. 66

Miscellaneous

A Questionnaire on Art and Literature 58

The Pleasant Art of Monogramming—By Deems Taylor. 71

The Hall of Fame. 74

Evolution In Auction Bridge—By R. F. Foster 75

The People Who Don't Play Golf—By Bernard Darwin. 77

The Well Dressed Woman Journeys South 78

The Adaptable Roadster. 80

Our London Letter. 82

The Well Dressed Man. 84