VANITY FAIR FOR APRIL, 1916

VOLUME 6

NUMBER 2

LEADING ARTICLE OF THE MONTH

GERMANY'S STAND-PAT CAMPAIGN — By Frederick James Gregg 45

IN AND ABOUT THE THEATER

MARIE Doro—Portrait by Ira L. Hill—Frontispiece - 44

MODERN DAUGHTERS OF THE DANCE—Photographs - -47

FROLIQUEURS—Stage Photographs ------54

THE NEW MUSICAL SHOWS—By P. G. Wodehouse - - 55

Two SHAKESPEAREAN ABDICATIONS—Photographs - - 56

ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE—By P. Brooke-Haven - - - 57

STARS OF THE SCREEN—Photographs -----58

AUNT SALLY TAKES A SHY AT THE CRITICS—By Marie Tempest - ------59

STRANGE HAPPENINGS AT THE METROPOLITAN—Photographs ------------60

COMEDIES AND SUPPER CROWDS -Crowds by Fish— Comments by Campbell Lee ------62

NELLIE FARREN, FRED LESLIE, LETTY LIND — By Leander Richardson - ----65

FLORE REVALLES OF THE BALLET RUSSE—Portrait by Ira L. Hill -----------70

MUSICAL COMEDY: AN APRIL SHOWER OF REIGNING STARS—Photographs - ----72

THE LEISURELY DRAMA—By P. G. Wodehouse - - - 73

AN AFTERNOON WITH THE FAUN—By Ettore Marroni - 75

THE WORLD OF ART

MRS. OSCAR LEWISOHN—Portrait by William Orpen - 46

THE BIRD LOGCIA OF THE NEW COLONY CLUB—By Frederick James Gregg - ---- 50

IN TIIE DAYS OF THE IRISH KINGS—Drawing by Sydney Joseph - ------- 61

THE RAGE FOR BAREFOOT DANCING — Sketches by Dorothy Ferriss ----------68

THE PASSING OF THE FUTURISTS—By Mary Cass Canfield - ------69

AN ARCHITECT HIS OWN ARCHITECT—Photographs - 74

THE NEW ART AT THE COFFEE HOUSE—By Arthur Loring Bigelow - ----- 79

MRS. WHITNEY'S TITANIC MEMORIAL—Photographs - 80

MODERN THOUGHTS BY MODERN ESSAYISTS

THE PHILOSOPHY OF AUGUSTE RODIN—By Arthur Symons - --- 51

UNITED ITALY AND THE ISONZO—By Sem Benelli - - 53

Miss SINCLAIR AGAIN HITS THE BULL'S-EYE—Book Reviews—By Henry Brinsley -----71

Sleep—By Henry Algernon Blackwood ----77

ALL SERIOUSNESS ASIDE

CHEZ FYSHER—Sketches by Wallace Morgan - - - 48

WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?—By Pelham Grenville - ------49

PREPAREDNESS FOR WOMEN—Sketches by Ethel Plummer 52

DIARY OF THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK - 53

THE BENEFACTOR—By Richard Marshall - - - - - 61

WARNING TO DÉBUTANTES—By Robert Locher - - - 75

THIS IS THE HOUSE THE CUBIST BUILT—Sketches by E. W. Kemble. 76

THE PERSONAL NOTE IN MOTOR CARS—Sketches by Myrtle Held 84

LIFE OUTDOORS

AIR YACHTS AND CLOUD CRUISERS—By Henry Woodhouse ----------81

MIRACLE SHOTS AT GOLF—By A. W. Tillinghast - - - 82

OUR THIRD LINE OF DEFENSE—By George W. Sutton, Jr. - ------83

IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY - - - - 85

THE CIIOW AND SOME OTHER DOGS. 86

MISCELLANIES

THE BEAUX ARTS BALL OF THE GODS—Photographs - 64

A GROUP OF ENGLAND'S LEADING HUMORISTS—Photographs -------------66

Democrat—By an American Sportsman ----67

THE BLOCKHEAD Zoo—Photographs -----77

BIG GUNS FROM WAR-SWEPT Europe—Photographs - 78

SHOPPING FOR THE WELL-DRESSED MAN. 87

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

PARIS REFLECTS THE MODES OF EARLY DAYS - - - 88

THE UNSEEN FLOUNCES OF PETTICOAT AND NEGLIGEE - 90

THE SHOPS OF VANITY FAIR --------91

EVENING CREATIONS BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED - - - 92

SMART SPRING CONTRIBUTIONS . .. 93

INCIDENTS IN PREPARING FOR SUMMER. 94

SPRING SUBMITS FEMININE TRIFLES -----96

THE HAT'S THE THING - - - -96d

TOLD IN THE BOUDOIR.-----98

THE MODE IN ITS VARYING MOODS. 102

FADS DEFYING SUMMER SUN. - 106

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