VANITY FAIR

Contents for March, 1914

VOLUME 2

NUMBER 1

J. M. WATERBURY, Jr. The New Captain of the American. Polo Team Frontispiece 18

CAN AMERICA WIN AT POLO? All-England vs. America By John G. Milburn, Jr. 19

THE NEWEST AMERICAN OPERA Victor Herbert s Success with "Madeleine" By Sigmund Spaeth 21

TOSCANINI A Problem in Personal Hypnosis By Max Smith 22

THE MINARETS OF VANITY FAIR New Creations from the Studios of May Wilson Preston, et al 23

MRS. VERNON CASTLE The Hostess of Castle House A Recent Portrait 26

LOCAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS Billie Burke, Maude Adams, The Taliaferros From New Photographs 24

MAUDE ADAMS AS SEVEN WOMEN In Sir James Barnes New Play By Clayton Hamilton 25

A JOURNEY TO CASTLE HOUSE The Most Talked-of House in New York By a Country Gentleman 27

THE STAGE SOCIETY Its Aims and Its Benefits to the Drama By Constance Collier 28

THE STAGE SOCIETY And the Sunday Law in New York By Henry G. Gray 29

THE "MOVIES" Molded to Musical Comedy A Page of Photographs 30

SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS A Few of Those Who Have Prospered By Acton Davies 31

THE FIZZINESS OF LIFE A Great Story of Passionate Love By Robert W. Changeless 32

SEX HIGH JINKS The Plaint of the Magazine Manager Drawing by Oliver Herford 33

GOOD-BY TO CISSIE LOFTUS As an Imitator Drawings by Frances Delehanty 34

SHAW AND SUPER-SHAW The Playwright and the Doctrinaire By Frank Moore Colby 35

"GRUMPY" Mr. Cyril Maude's Recent Success Two Portraits 36

FOUR LITTLE DUOLOGUES On Feminism and Feminists By Anne 0'Hagan 37

AN HONOR FOR CHARLES DANA GIBSON The Luxembourg Acquires "The Champion" Pen and Ink Drawing 38

THE THEATRE GALLERIES And Why They Are Empty By James L. Fori 38

WOMEN WHO HAVE LOVED ME A Very Short Story By an Anonymous Author 39

FOUR GROUPS OF SCULPTURE Classic and Modern By Paul Manship 40

AROUND THE CLOCK Random Notes By Edgar Saltus 41

HERBERT HAZELTINE A Sculptor of Sport Polo: Race FJorse: Bull Fight 42

THE HEARN COLLECTION OF IVORIES A Great American Collector Four Museum Examples 43

FOREIGN SNAP SHOTS A Few New Photographs Taken in London and Paris 44

BEGINNING NOVELS In Manner of Four Novelists By Louis Untermeyer 45

GLADYS COOPER A New English Stage Eeauty Photographic Portrait 46

LONDON'S NEW PLAYS Revivals of Old Successes By F. S. Thomas 47

ORIENTAL DANCES A Group of Portraits From Photographs 48

THREE MASTER CRAFTSMEN Reviews of a Few New Books By Henry Brinsley 49

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD A Trial and Conviction by A Jury of English Authors 50

NONSENSE RHYMES (And Some Youthful Pictures) By Simeon Ford 51

METHODS IN GOLF The Montessori System By Marshall Whitlatch 52

OUR NEW CUP DEFENDERS America's Three New Racing Yachts By Lawrence Perry 53

DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS Dog News and Dog Photographs Illustrated 54

IN THE WORLD OF MOTORS Illustrated with Photographs 56

THE WELL-DRESSED MAN With Four Drawings 57

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

The Mode Grows Picturesque . . . . . . .58

Spring Plays Pranks with the Fashions .... 59

Picturing the Spring Mode .. 61

Contestants for Millinery Honors. 62

The Scene Shifts to Monte Carlo. 63

The Shops of Vanity Fair. 66

A Sextette of Spring Suits. 68

Touches That Tell. 70

The Vogue of Flowers ... . 74

The Feminine Substitute for Pockets. 80

Told in the Boudoir 82

Hints Anent the Spring Wardrobe. 84

The Girdle and Coiffure of Fashion. 94

New Shades Under the Sun. 100