VANITY FAIR

Contents

for SEPTEMBER, 1926

FRANK CROWNINSHIELD—Editor

DONALD FREEMAN—Managing Editor

HEYWORTH CAMPBELL Art Director

In and About the Theatre

The Developing Art—By Donald Freeman 52

Helen Chandler—A Child Actress Grown Up 53

The First American Portrait of Raquel Meller 59

The Great Public and Its Theatre—By John Emerson 65

Gertrude Lawrence—Formally Adopted by America 70

Anna Q. Nilsson—By Jim Tally 71

Another Gentleman Who Prefers Blondes— Photographs 73

Ruth St. Denis—On a House-Top in Baluchistan 77

A Visiting Screen Star—Greta Garbo 83

The Popular Playwrights of Paris—Photographs 86

The World of Art

Behind the Scenes at a Paris Revue—By Jean Louis Forain 55

Claude Monet—The Last of the Old Masters 64

Dance Figures in Black and White—By Emil Etigerl 69

A Gallery of African Types—By Alexandre Jacovleff 75

Two Girls—By Helene Perdriat 78

New York of the Future—By Hugh Ferriss 84

The World of Ideas

The South—By Sherwood Anderson 49

Are Children People?—By Elizabeth Benson 60

Are Children People?—Photographs 61

Californian Rhapsody—By Aldous Huxley 62

The Foremost Contemporary Builders of Public Opinion and Taste 66

The Citizen King—By Philip Guedalla 68

Seeing Life in Unexpected Places—By Aldous Huxley 82

Poetry and Verse

Recent Poems of Love and Sorrow—By Theodore Dreiser 54

A Portrait—By Dorothy Parker 58

Literary Hors d'CEuvres

Vive la Folic!—By E. E. Cummings 55

If I Owned the Paper—By Alexander Woollcott 58

Ready-Made College Types—By Corey Ford 72

How to Hire an Actor—By Leslie Howard 74

Chinese Phantoms—By Paul Morand 76

And Years Passed—By Maddy Vegtel 78

Satirical Sketches

Terrors of Turkish Bathing—By George Luks 51

La-dees and Gennlemen, Step Up! ! !—By Covarrubias 56

All Around the World With Assorted A m erica us —By Fish 80

Miscellaneous

The President at the White House—Photograph 48

The Triumphs of Bobby Jones—By Bernard Darwin 63

A Questionnaire on Music 74

The Hall of Fame 79

Four-Card Suit Bids—By R. F. Foster 85

Notes on European Motoring—By John Prioleau 87

Smart Town Cars Are Triumphs of the Carriage-Builder's Art 88

The Well-Dressed Woman on Horseback 90

What the College Man Really Wears 92