CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1915

VOLUME 4

NUMBER 1

MRS. VERNON CASTLE AND HER NEW WHITE WIG A Photograph Posed for Vanity Pair, Frontispiece

THE NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD RUSSIAAnalyzed in an article by Frederick James Gregg 23

NEW YORK'S RECONSTRUCTED PLAZAIllustrated with an A related's Sketch 24

THE HALL OF FAME And the Month's Nominations for It 25

OPERATIC FLAGS ARE AT HALF MASTCaruso's Departure, Sketched by Babdie 26

BOY! PAGE MR. COMSTOCK!An Essay of Reproach by P. G. Wodehouse 27

THEATRICAL POKER HANDSTen Queens, One Jack, and a Joker (Photographs) 28

JACOB EPSTEIN: FIREBRAND OF ARTA Word About the Man and His Work (Illustrated) 30

STRIKING WORKS BY THE "MODERNS" A Painting by Picasso, and a Statue by Renoir 30

TORTURES OF A DRAMATIC CRITICThe Compulsory First-Nighter, by E. Marroni 31

MISS FAY COMPTON: REFUGEEFrom a Photograph Posed for Vanity Fair 32

A HONOLULU SURF RIDERFrom a Snapshot Taken in Honolulu 33

THE FOREIGN INVASION OF OUR STAGEA Mild Complaint by James L. Ford 33

PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT DETAILSome Recent Examples by Mrs. Gertrude Kasebier 34

OPERA AUDIENCES IN AMERICAA Brief Comment on Them by Pasquale Amato 35

GERMANY'S CHIEF AID IN AMERICA A Sketch of His Achievements by Francis Welch 35

ALBERT STERNER'S LITHOGRAPHSExplaining Ilis Canceled "Amour Mori" 36

THE NEW HOME OF THE COLONY CLUBWith a Drawing by the Architects 37

THE APPEAL OF MARIE-ODILE Miss Starr and Scenes from the Play 38

"THE SHOW SHOP"; DRAMA OF THE DRAMAReviewed in Rhyme by Arthur Guiterman 39

JULES ROMAINS AND THE UNANIMISTESA New French School of Writers, by Neith Gunnen Holt 39

CASTLES IN THE AIRA New Roof Garden Cabaret, Sketched by Ethel M. Plummer 40

WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO GOLFFeminine F.v. Masculine Temperaments, by Gr anil and Rice 41

SLEEP: A SICILIAN STUDYFrom a Photograph Taken at Taormina, Sicily 42

GETTING BACK AT MR. COMPTON MACKENZIEA Page of Book Reviews by Henry Brinsley 43

BRITISH POLOISTS IN A STERNER GAMEPhotographs of Men Connected with the War 44

THE WORLD'S NEW MUSICAL CENTERNew York's Commanding Position, by Max Smith 45

A FEW ANIMALGRAPHSA Page of Drawings, by Aubrey Beardsley 46

TERPSICHOREAn Excursion into Blurred Art, by Frederick Lewis Allen 47

AN EXAMINATION IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS A Few Questions, and their A nswers by A nne Bunner Ingham 48

THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN COMPOSERSA Critical Essay, by Charles L. Buchanan 49

INSECT LIFE IN NEW YORKClassified by George Jean Nathan, Illustrated by Birch 50

ENCHANTRESSES—UP-TO-DATEText by Carolyn Wells, Drawing by Sydney Joseph 50

TELEPATHY A LA CARTE A Social Tragedy in New York by Louise Closser Hale 51

LONDON SEES THE PANTOMIME A Review by Campbell Lee, with Drawings by Fish 52

THE NOCTURNAL CHARMOf the San Francisco Exposition (Photographs) 54

THE DEATH OF VINNIE REAM A Short Reminiscence by Charles Frederick Stansbury 55

GERMANY AND THE DIVINE SANCTIONA Paragraph by One Who Shall Remain Anonymous 55

THE ANTIQUITY OF MODERN DANCESA Truthful Pictorial Expose by Anthony Euwer 56

SCOOTERIN' A POPULAR SPORTAn Outdoor Article by P. G. Wodehouse 57

THE GROWING VOGUE OF COURT TENNIS A More or Less Historical Review by T. Markoc Robertson 58

TRAVELING NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPSA Suggestion Concerning a Controversy by Grantland Rice 59

HAVE YOU A LITTLE ADOLF IN YOUR HOME?The All-round Value of German Shepherd Dogs (Illustrated) 60

DOGS AND THEIR OWNERSEntries in the Greatest Show of the Year 61

MOTOR CARS OF THE HOURAs Seen at Recent Exhibitions in New York 62

SHOPPING FOR THE WELL-DRESSED MANSuggestions for Rainy Weather—and Dry 63

INVENTIONS FOR THE INDUSTRIOUS IDLECarefully Thought Out and Expounded by E. L. McKinney 90

PAPER CUT OUTS OF NEW YORK LIFE Made Specially for Vanity Fair by Marion Thomas 92

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

The Parisienne Now Goes Soberly Clad....64

Prefacing a New Chapter in Fashion.....65

The Shops of Vanity Fair—About Spring Frocks...67

The Sports Clothes of a Gentlewoman.....68

Calling the Roll of the Spring Suits.......69

As It Is in the Beginning—New Fabrics....71

Blue-Prints of the Mode—a Page of Smart and Easily Interpreted Designs in Vogue Patterns.72

The High Collar and the Low Collar. 76

Little Knickknacks of Smart Dress. 78

Told in the Boudoir—About a Useful Volume 80

Handling the Season without Gloves. 82

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