VANITY FAIR

VOLUME 8

VANITY FAIR FOR MARCH, 1917

NUMBER I

LEADING ARTICLE OF THE MONTH

HUNTING PEACE WITH A Blunderbuss—By Frederick James Gregg 35

IN AND ABOUT THE THEATRE

MAUDE ADAMS, AS LITTLE MISS "Thing"—Frontispiece 34

THE ISADORA DUNCAN Girls—Photographs 36

THE IDOLS OF MARCH ARE Come—Photographs 38

THE AGONIES OF WRITING A MUSICAL Comedy—By P. G. Wodehouse 39

ELSIE Ferguson—Photograph 40

DRAMATIC WHITE Hopes—Photographs 44

PLAYS UNPLEASANT AND Unpleasant—By Robert C. Benchley 45

PAULINE Frederick—Photograph 52

THE SEASON'S BEST Plays—By Brighton Perry 53

GIRLS WILL BE Boys—Photographs 60

LE Miserable—By George Jean Nathan 61

MAGGIE Teyte—Photograph 64

WESTWARD THE STARS OF INDIA TAKE THEIR COURSEPhotographs 68

THEY HAVE DANCERS, TOO, IN Sweden—Photographs 72

THE WORLD OF ART

THE NONSENSE ABOUT "ART Patrons"—By Ard Choille 37

GOYA, SPANISH OF THE Spaniards—By Arthur Symons 43

THE Vine—A Decoration by Sydney Joseph 49

THE DECORATIVE ART OF HOWARD Cushing—By Wm. Adams Delano 54

MESTROVITCH'S STATUE OF MARKO, THE SERBIAN KING Arthur—Photograph 58

AMERICAN WORK OF A POLISH Sculptor—Photographs 59

"A. E.," POET, PAINTER, AND Economist-—By Padraic Colum 65

FOUR VETERAN PAINTERS WHO ARE HELPING FRANCEPhotographs 66

THÉVENAZ, THE RHYTHMATIST, IN NEW YORK 70

ALL SERIOUSNESS ASIDE

THOSE WAR-BENEFIT Teas—By Frederic Richter 49

INDIVIDUALITY IN INTERIOR Decoration—Decorative Schemes by Fish 50

How TO GET UP A WAR Benefit—Sketches by Ethel Plummer 56

A WONDERFUL NEW SOCIAL BUREAU 57

GOOD NEWS FOR DANCING MEN 57

AROUND THE CLOCK WITH A DÉBUTANTE—Portraits by Myrtle Held 62

Skating—By George S. Chappell, With a Wood Cut by Hogarth, Jr. 63

PANNING THE POETS OF Old—By Elizabeth Solomon 63

SWEET AND Twenty—A Play by Floyd Dell 69

MY HAREM IN NEW York—By Harry A. Earnshaw 70

FOR A BETTER AUTOMOBILE Show—Sketches by Thelma Cudlipp 74

MISCELLANEOUS

THE LATEST SCRAP OF Paper—By William Davis 41

WE NOMINATE FOR THE HALL OF Fame—Photographs 42

MAURICE Renaud—Photograph 46

AN EIGHT-HOUR LAW FOR Wives—By Nixola Greeley Smith 47

SHIPS THAT FLOAT IN THE Air—Photographs 48

THE War,—Madame—By Paul Géraldy 67

THE NEW GAME OF PIRATE Bridge—By R. F. Foster 73

THE ORIGIN OF GOLF IN America—By J. G. MacGregor 71

OLD IDEAS IN NEW FORMS 75

LITTLE, BUT OH MY! 76

FOR THE WELL-DRESSED Man—By Robert Lloyd Trevor 77

WHAT THEY WEAR IN VANITY FAIR

THUS DOES PARIS FROCK OUR MORNINGS, NOONS, AND NIGHTS 78

"FEAR NOT THE BARREL," SAYS PARIS 79-80-81-86

THE CHIEF AIMS AND ENDS OF WOMEN. 82

THE SHOPS OF VANITY FAIR. 83-84

TOLD IN THE BOUDOIR 88-90

THE HEIGHTS OF FASHION 92

THE INFLUENCE OF SPRING ON THE SHOPS 94

MILLINERY IN MULTIFORM 96

HATS DESIGNED TO "KEEP YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL" 98

WHY WOMEN LIKE SPORTS 100