VANITY FAIR

CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1924

Crowninshielr—Editor

HEYWORTH Campbell—Art Director

in and About the. Theatre

Gloria Swanson as a French-Algerian Heroine 34

Hard Boiled Drama—By Alexander Woollcott 38

Katharine Cornell—To Appear under David Belasco 39

Stars Who are Taking Successful Plays on Tour 42

A Alan Plays Many Roles in his Day—Albert Carroll 44

Hope Hampton Alakcs her Debut in Musical Comedy 45

Mr. and Mrs. Barthelmess; to Appear Together 49

Lucrezia Bori, in Massenet's "Manon". 51

Die Kitio-Kbnigin—By George Jean Nathan . . . . 58

Rudolph Valentino Returns to the Role of an Argentine 64

Raquel Mellcr, French Disease—Her American Visit 67

The World of Art

A Group of Feminine Portrait Busts—By Jacob Epstein 47

A Group of "Furthest South" Sketches by Rockwell Kent 54

The wocking Lady—A Painting by Augustus John 59

The World of Ideas

The Restoration of Slavery in the United Stales—By Gilbert Scldes. 35

A Bitter Cry for Good Food to Eat—By Lucien Bluphocks 43

Popular Literature—By Aldous Huxley. 57

Poetry and Verse

Song—By Helen Choate. 43

Ananias—By Edmund Vance Cook. CN Lr, 57

Disillusionment and Retort Discourteous. 62

Literary Hors dJOeuvres

How to Fail—the Amazing Story of Fillmore Hutchins By Jassies W. Cress. 46

The Bathos of Distance—By Christopher Bone . . . 48

Now is the 1 ttne to Ridicule Science—By Vivian Shaw 50

Hands Off the Reverend Mr. Dodgson—By Alexander Woollcott.'.52

The Woman behind the Mask—By Colette .... 55

Investments in Sentiment—By George S. Chappell . . 62

T he First Performance of Hamlet—By Samuel Ilo ffenstein 65

Satirical Sketches

The Opening of the Art Season—By Alan Odle ... 37

Rube Goldberg Becomes a Cross-W ord Puzzle Fan . . 41

More World Fliers—In a Week-End Flight—By 1Martin 53

New York, Now the Mecca for Lovely Europeans—By Adolph Dehn. 56

The Higher Importance of Window Curtains—By Fish 60

The Uncrowned Rulers of America—By Frans Masereel 61

There is a Happy Land—By George Belcher . ... 69

Miscellaneous

Revenge—A Cross-W ord Puzzle by Owen Johnson . . 40

A Straw Vote of the Arts. 36

The Hall of Fame. 63

Impending Changes in Auction—By R. F. Foster . . 66

Great Golfing Families: Particularly the Hezlets—By Bernard Darwin.68

Ready-To-Wear Clothes Especially Selected . . 70 and 71

The Well Dressed Man—in Skirts.72 and 73

The Fall Season Finds the Motor World Active . . 74

For the Well Dressed Man.76

The Future of Mah Jong—By R. F. Foster .... 78

European Motoring—By John Prioleau.80

A Shelf of Recent Books—By Burton Rascoc . . . .118