VANITY FAIR

Contents for April, 1925

FRANK CROWN INS hiel.d—Editor

In and About the Theatre

Laurcttc Taylor as the Prodigal 8on—Photograph ................38

June Walker, in "Processional"—Photograph............43

The Mad Tea Parly—Photograph ....48

The Mrs. Fiskes of the Years to Come....50

Moss and Fontana—Photograph ....53

Walter Hampden as Othello-—Photograph...58

Mary Ellis as Rose-Marie—Photograph...63

Lillian Gish: 'Ten Years a Star—With Sever an Eclipse.....68

The Unabated Coyness of Beilina—By Alexander W o oil collcott..........69

George Arliss in "Old English" ....73

The IVorld of Art

Horses and Men—A Group of E'/uine Bronzes 47

New York's Skyscrapers—By Arnold Ronnebeck................56

A Page of Portraits by Eugene Speicher...75

The World of Ideas

How Modern Music Gets 'That Way—By Virgil Thomson....46

Too Much Theory—By Aldous Huxley . . 55

Again We Vicw-with-Alarm: The Moving Picture—By Gilbert Seldes....57

New Wine from Bottles Setc and Old— Photographs.......66

Egypt for the Egyptians—By Captain T. J. C. Martyn.....72

Poetry and Verse

Three Poems—By Lionel Hatceis . ... 62

Tragedy—By George S. Chappell ... 67

1KYWORTH CAM duei.i.—Art Director

Literary IIors dyOeuvres

A Past That teas Brought Home in a Taxi— By Alexander Woollcott....39

Alaaaaa-my1 Maaaaa-my!—By Al Jolson . 42

I he Beautiful Old Lady—By Ferenc Alolnar............. 44

Juan Belmonte, Greatest of Matadors—By Christian Brin/on .49

When Calvin Coolidge Laughed—By E. E. Cummings.52

William Adams-Wiggley—Genius and Christian—By C. E. Nil/sc, .S'. P. C. V.......59

'The Blind Alley—By Colette....62

Aunt Alary and I do the Galleries—By George S. Chappell........... 67

Satirical Sketches

Hobbies of the Happily Rich—By Benito ........ 45

Girls lie Won't Marry—and Why—By Fish ..........54

Love on the Stage-mid the Stage Lovers II ho Depict It—By Miguel Covarrubias ... 60

The Grim and Hateful Al ousters of A etc York —By Frans Mate reel....70

Seven Types of Would-Be Dancers—By Mai tin 77

Miscellaneous

Deserts de Luxe—By Albert Boyden . . . 64

Winds as a Factor in Golf—By Bernard Darwin.74

The Passing of the Ao-Trumper—By R. F. Foster.76

Our London Letter.78

For the Well Dressed Alan.79

Women of the World Out-of-Doors in Spring 80

Greater Smoothness in the New Alotors . . 82

European Motoring—By John Prioleau . . 84