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FEBRUARY 1923

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Cover Design—By Eduard Garcia Benito

In and About the Theatre

The Theatrical Callboard—By Kenneth Macgowan...............12

Alla Nazimova—Photograph.............................32

"Mr. Shakespeare, Meet Mr. Tyson"—By Heywood Broun . .............. 33

The Valentinos—Photograph............................42

The People of the Moscow Art Theatre—By Rebecca Drucker .......................... 43

Glenn Hunter—Photograph......................47

Some Gifted Young Persons—Photographs...........50

Desirée Lubovska—Photograph........................51

A Cycle of Theatrical Horoscopes—By Evangeline Adams . .................... 54

David Garrick to John Barrymore—By Stark Young.........................55

More and More Ballet Russe—Photographs...........................59

Violet Heming—Photograph ......................62

The World of Art

A Little Sister of Tragedy—Sculpture by Irving Calder ...................... 28

An Imaginary Portrait of New York—By Frans Masereel . ....................... 37

Red Chalk Drawings—By Jacovleff....................................44

The Rise and Decline of Cubism—By Clive Bell...........................53

The Seven Deadly Sins—Prints by Guy Arnoux...................................66

The World of Ideas

Songs Without Music—By Edmund Wilson, Jr. . .......................22

The Winter of the German Conscience—By Maximilian Harden....................... 29

A Note on Centenaries—By Aldous Huxley . ....36

Clemenceau Over Here and Over There—By Walter Lippmann ..................... 49

The Pessimism of the Comic Strip—By Patrick Kearney ...................... 57

The Ideals of Young France—By Marcel Prévost...............................64

Poetry

Two New Poems—By John V. A. Weaver....................51

Literary Hors d'Oeuvres

The Woman Who Would Be Moving the Beds About—By Edna St. Vincent Millay............................................ 35

My Annual Message—By T. Wilfred Etherington.........................40

Amy Rainbird of Clutter field—By Thomas Burke .............................45

"Madame a Tort"—By Nancy Boyd ............................46

A Portrait of Jo Davidson—By Gertrude Stein.....................48

What Are You Doing for Your Town?—By George S. Chappell ......................... 58

Our Metropolitan Dramatic Critics—By Walter Prichard Eaton........................ 63

Satirical Sketches

Our Girls at Palm Beach—By Joseph B. Platt ...........................31

A Tonsorial Outline of History—By Martin ........................34

Girls of the Burlesque—By George Luks....................................41

A Farewell Performance at the Opera—By Benito....................52

"Overcome by the Heat "—By George Belcher..................................56

Paul's Proposals—By Fish.........................................60

The World Outdoors

American and British Golf—By Bernard Darwin..............................67

Jack Dempsey Wails for the World—By Heywood Broun ........................69

Afterthoughts of Show Time—By George W. Sutton, Jr............................71

The Olympia Show—By Coutts Biss...........................73

Miscellaneous

the Financial Situation—By Merryle Stanley Rukeyser . .......................14

Fashions and Pleasures of New York—By John McMullin . ...........................17

A Gallery of Famous Orchestra Conductors in America ..........................35

Igor Stravinsky—By Erik Satie........................... 39

The Hall of Fame...................................... 65

The Perpetual Winner at Auction—By R. F. Foster.....................70

For the Well Dressed Man.........................74

Metropolitan Shopping Opportunities...............................76

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