Vanity Fair

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER-1921

In and About the Theatre

The Theatrical Callboard—By Kenneth Mac go wan........... 6

In and Out of New York—Photographs..................34

Canonizing the Flapper—By Heywood Broun............35

Anna Pavlowa—Photograph.............37

In Stock in Stockholm—Photographs..............42

Giovanni Martinelli—Photograph............. 47

Dancers of the Grotesque and Arabesque—Photographs......... 50

Expressionism in the Drama—By Kenneth Macgowan............. 51

Lenore Ulric—Photograph.....................53

Elsie Janis—Photograph............... 59

"Theodora"—Photographs...................62

Catherine Calvert—Photograph...............65

The World of Art.

Notes on Painting and Sculpture—By Peyton Boswel........... 4

Life Triumphing Over Learning—By Rockwell Kent....... 30

Heroic Sculptures of Antoine Bourdelle..........38

Cubist Photography in England and America.................56

The World of Ideas

The Distrust of Ideas—By John Peale Bishop.............10

What About the Irish Question?—By Francis Hackett........ 31

Latter Day Helens: Briseis—By W. L. George........ 39

The Secret of Charlie Chaplin's Popularity—By St. John Ervine........ 40

Satie and "Socrate"—By Paul Rosenfeld.............46

Disappearing Localisms—By Frank Moore Colby......... 52

L'Amour—By Paul Geraldy............... 63

Art for Argument's Sake—By Heywood Broun..................64

Leonardo da Vinci—By Arthur Symons...........110

Poetry and Verse

Tivoli—By John Dos Passos................32

Blight—By Harrison Dowd.............45

A Notion—By Henry Chapin.............102

Literary Hors d'Oeuvres

Mirrors of Manhattan—By the Gentleman with a Meat-Axe..... 36

Chester Merriwell at Yale—By Donald Ogden Stewart......... 43

The Cocoon—By Franz Molnar.............45

For Winter, For Summer—By Nancy Boyd...........48

Rollo at the Football Game—By George S. Chappell........... 54

The Editor's Letter Box—By Donald Ogden Stewart.......... 57

The Lowest Form of Wit—By Louis Untermeyer........116

Satirical Sketches

Sports for Every Day in the Year—By Charles Martin.......... 33

All Aboard for Chinatown!—By John Held, Jr.............41

American Racing Notes, from Paris—By Henry Raleigh........ 44

The Children's Houjy in Washington Square—By George Luks...... 49

Women in the W orld of Art—By Benito............55

Seeing Ourselves as Others See us—By Fish..........60

The World Outdoors

Cecil Leitch—Photographs................... 66

Sport Returns to the Cave Age—By Grantland Rice........... 68

Annual Automobile Salon—By George W. Sutton, Jr........... 69

European Motoring—By Gerald Biss....................... 82

Miscellaneous

The Financial Situation—By Merryle'Stanley Rukeyser..... 14

Hall of Fame—Photographs.......58

Bidding Tactics at Auction Bridge—By R. F. Foster.............67

For the IF ell Dressed Man...................72

Let Us Buy Your Christmas Presents.............75

Volume 17 Number 4

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