VANITY FAIR

Contents for AUGUST, 1926

FRANK Crowninshield—Editor DONALD Freeman—Managing Editor HKYWORTH Campbell—Art Director

In and About the Theatre

Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne—Photograph . 39

Our Naughty Drama—By Donald Freeman . 40

Lenore Ulric as Miss Lulu Belle—Photograph 43

Frohman Would Have Starred Them All— Photographs ........... 45

Doubling for Don Juan—John Barrymore . 49

A Visitor to London—Tallulah Bankhead of Alabama................. 54

Pola Negri—By Jim Tully........ 55

Ann Pennington Struts a New Step—Photographs ...... 57

The Worm Turns—By Ralph Block ...... 58

The World of Art

Spanish Women—Pastels by Natalia Gontcharova ...... 36

The Up-and-Down of Time—An Etching by John Sloan ..... 51

Portrait of a Lady—By Vladimir Becic .

Some Recent Portrait Busts by Chana Orloff

The World of Ideas

The Strike That Failed—By Philip Guedalla 33

Our Debt to Hollywood—By Aldous Huxley 34

The Decay of Gastronomy in America—By Frank Crowninshield....... 42

All That's In a Name—By Gilbert W. Gabriel..... 44

The Peril of Narcotics—By Walter F. Lineberger......... 62

Poetry and Verse

A Very Short Song—By Dorothy Parker . 44

Recent Poems of Life and Labour—By Theodore Dreiser.... 61

Literary Hors d'CEuvres

New Orleans—By Sherwood Anderson ..... 36

There And Back—By Corey Ford .... 37

A Chinese Ghost Story—By Paul Morand .... 38

A Little Supper with Miss Smith—By Edmund Pearson.... 48

Inside Speaking Out—By Leslie Howard .... 50

The Idea! Woman—A Symposium ....... 52

A Western Reunion—By Geoffrey Kerr ...... 56

The Second-Hand Coat—By Maddy Vegtel 60

Conflicting Aspects of Paris—By E. E. Cummings..... 65

What Is the Matter with My Golf Game?— By George S. Chappell.... 67

Satirical Sketches

"Summer is Icumen In"—By Fish .... 35

Types We See on Broadzvay—By Covarrubias 41

Eight Unconventional Aspects of Parisian Night Life—By Franz Masereel ..... 46

Miscellaneous

James J. Walker—Mayor of New York . 32

How Many of These Can You Answer?— Vanity Fair's Questionnaire.... 50

Agnes Gcraghty in a High Swan Dive— Photographs .... 63

The Hall of Fame.... 64

The Americans at Muirfield—By Bernard Darwin...... 68

A Pugilistic Prodigy—William Lawrence Stribling, Junior ...... 69

Some New Accessories—Smart Equipment for Motor Cars..... 70

The Well Dressed Woman on the Sea .... 72

For the Well Dressed Man.... 74

Guiding Your Partner ct Auction Bridge— By R. F. Foster.... 76

Notes on Motoring in England.... 78

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