VANITY FAIR

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1914

VOLUME 3

NUMBER 4

KING ALBERT, IN AMERICA The Story of His Stay Here (with Frontispiece) By Ard Choille 29

FOUR NEW PLAYS And a Freshly Imported Daughter for "Grumpy" The Stage in Pictures 31

A REAL ALL-AMERICAN TEAM Picked by Football Experts Throughout America Illustrated 33

THE EYES OF THE BRITISH ARMY Members of the Royal Flying Corps Shown in Snapshots 34

THE FOUR BRILLIANT BENSONS Three of Them Writers and One an Actor-Manager With Photographs 35

A SAD SOLILOQUY ON THE SALAMANDER Lines Written Upon the Play's Unhappy Demise By Arthur Guiterman 35

THE HALL OF FAME And the Month's Nominations For It With Photographs 36

FOOLISH QUESTION: WHO IS GOLDBERG? His Cartoons All Come Under the Head of Pleasure By Joseph Edgar Chamberlin 37

MY LADY'S DRESS The hero and heroine of Edward Knoblauch's Play A Picture Page 38

REFUGEES IN LONDON A Touching Story of Great Hardships By Campbell Lee 39

FROM DICKENS AND HANS ANDERSEN All the Way to Bernard Shaw The Stage in Pictures 40

FOUR THEATRICAL OLIVE BRANCHES Who Have Recently Played Important Rôes By J. C. H. 41

MISS RUTH DRAPER A Recent Charcoal Drawing By John S. Sargent 42

THE DECLINE OF THE STAR SYSTEM And the Changing Attitude of Managers Toward It By James L. Ford 43

THE OPENING OF THE OPERA SEASON Sketchy Impressions Made at the Metropolitan By Babette 44

THE WAR AMONG THE INTELLECTUALS Is Nietzsche to Blame? Or Treitschke? Or Carlyle? By Frederick James Gregg 45

DUELLING IN GERMANY Its Value As a Military Strengthener By P. G. Wodehouse 46

PROBLEMS OF MENTAL UNREST The Basis of Many of the Recent Novels By Henry Brinsley 47

THE LION OF THE EVENING A Malady Prevalent Among Actors Illustrated by Reginald Birch 48

THE PRICE A Tense Story of Modem Life By John Chapman Hilder 48

THE MELANCHOLY PASSING OF THE FLAPPER And the Usurpation of Her Throne by the Little Creature By Florrie 49

ADVERTISING—PLUS With Shirts and Other Furnishings By James Montgomery Flagg 50

WHAT IS AN ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR? And a Word on Masters of the Baton By W. J. Henderson 52

THE MODERN DEBUTANTE'S DAY—AND NIGHT Fragmentary Sketches of an Onerous Life By Rea Irvin 54

"TONIO," IN PAGLIACCI An Analysis of My Favorite Operatic Rdle By Antonio Scotti 55

MORAL, MYSTERIOUS, AND UN-MORAL PLAYS Four Beauties and a Make-Believe Oriental The Stage in Pictures 56

WHAT SHALL WE DANCE THIS WINTER? Old Dances Which Remain and a Few New Ones By Mrs. E. Roscoe Mathews 57

FRED STONE, COMEDIAN AND ARTIST Shown in Two of His Latest R6les Photographs 57

SOME OF NEW YORK'S ALIENS Who Are Receiving Visitors at the Zoo Camera Portraits 58

SEA-PLANING—THE NEW SPORT Its Development, Safety, and Popularity By Randolph Edgar 50

THE FIRST SNOW An Example of Art in Photography By Annie W. Brigman 60

THOUGHTS ON HOME LIFE And Its Disappearance in Modem Times By P. G. Wodehouse 61

WITH THE QUAIL DOGS Hunting in the Woods of North Carolina A Page of Snapshots 62

DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS With Notes on the Recent Dog Shows Illustrated 63

NEW COMFORTS IN MOTOR CARS And Some Christmas Presents for Motorists With Photographs 64

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FOR THE MAN A Few Attractive Articles Useful as Gifts A Picture Page 65

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

Fashions at 15° Fahrenheit, Illustrated 66

Threads in the Fabric of the Mode 67

Followed by Dancing, Illustrated 70

The Shops of Vanity Fair, Odd Items of Dress 71

Furs Take Liberty with an Inch of Latitude 72

Not Like Other Negligées, Illustrated 73

Gifts that Glitter under The Light 74

Told in the Boudoir, About Christmas Gifts 76

Gifts with Plenty of "Go" in Them. 80

Collared According to Paris, Illustrated 88