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OCTOBER 1919

In and About the Theatre

Stars Who Are Forsaking the Silent Screens—Photographs 40

The New Plays—If Any—By Dorothy Parker 41 Peggy Wood—Photograph 42

The Actors' Demands—By Helen Wells 47

Lucy Cotton—Photograph in Rotogravure 50

Here Are Ladies—Photographs in Rotogravure 51

Mary Miles Minter—Photograph 56

The ex-Vumpire—By Theda Bara 61

Nipping the Budding Playwright—By Heywood Broun 63

Great Moments in the Greenwich Village Follies— Sketches by Ethel Plummer 64

Prolific Playwrights—Photographs 66

Around the World on the Screen—Photographs 68

In the World of Art

A Contrast in Peace Posters 46

Bacchanale—Helen Moiler Dancers—Photograph in Rotogravure 49

Ruth St. Denis—Photograph in Rotogravure 52

Salome in Cubist Vesture—By Oliver M. Sayler 62

Portraits and Portrait Painting—By John Jay Chapman 65

Modern Thoughts on Timely Topics

The Man Shortage—By Thomas W. Lament 37

War Minds—By Frank Moore Colby 43

The World Plans of M. Barbusse — By C. M. Francis 33

Vers Libre: A Biological Monstrosity—By George Draper 128

All Seriousness Aside

The Society Strike—Sketches by Gluyas Williams 38

The Outlook in Our Home Town—By Stephen Leacock 39

Keeping Up with Terpsichore—By P. G. Wodehouse 43

The Serious Side of the Housing Problem—By Robert C. Benchley 48

Cidture: Five-Star Extra Edition — By Richard Connell 33

Taking Up Humor in a Serious Way—By George S. Chappell 37

On the Trail of the Concert Lizard—Sketches by Fish 58

The Irreconcilables—Poem by T. R. Ybarra 63

The Wanderings of a Column Hound—By R. E. Sherwood 67

Author—Author!—By William Charles Lengel 124

The Progress of Medicine—By Richard Connell 130

Expressing Movie Emotions—By Parkhurst Whitney 138

Setting the States to Music — By Harry Irving Shumway 140

The World Outdoors

At the Races—Sketches by August Henkel 34

Queer Kinks of the Links—By Grantland Rice 71

Social Aviation—By George W. Sutton, Jr. 72

America's Future in the Air—By Reed G. Landis, D. F. C. 73

The Open Season for Closed Cars — By Vanity Fair's Observer 74

Peace Boats—By Latimer Shaw 82

Miscellaneous

Viscount Grey—Photograph 36

Out of Office Hours—Photographs 44

Hall of Fame—Photographs 60

Our Auction Bridge Refuge—By R. F. Foster 69

How to Read CAiaracter at Sight—Photographs 70

For the Well Dressed Man 76

The Financial Situation—By Merryle S. Rukeyser 102

A Toy's Morals—By Arthur Symons 134

A Reconnaissance of New York—By Jean Murat 136

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