COMPLETE CONTENTS for this issue—DECEMBER 1927

In and About the Theatre

The Prodigal Returns—Geraldine Farrar—Photograph ...... 56

Dancing in the Spotlight—Marilyn Miller—Photograph ...... 61

Stepping Straight Out of the Pages—Photographs ............ 62

Reading Between the Footlights—By Gilbert W. Gabriel ...... 63

Entr'acte—Anna Pavlowa—Photograph...........68

.Billie Burke Comes Back—Photograph...............73

Enter Several Murderesses Hurriedly—By Alexander Woollcott .....80

The Lady from Mississippi—Mary Ellis—Photograph ........ 81

"Who Is Sylvia? What Is She?"—Photograph.............85

Mary Nash in a Comedy of Intrigue—Photograph ......... 91

Concerning the Cinema

The Seven Ages of Lois Moran—Photograph............79

James Cruze—By Jim Tully.......82

William Haines—Cited for Comedy—Photograph...........97

The World of Art

John S. Sargent—A Critical Estimate—By Roger Fry ....... 66

Recent Paintings—By John Carroll...........71

A Boxing Group—By Mahonri Young .............74

The World of Ideas

The Next War—By Maximilian Harden...........57

Venice, Venezia, Venedig and Venise—By Paul Morand ........ 59

The Business of Being a Hero—By Heywood Broun ........ 69

Archaeology in A.D. 5000—By Aldous Huxley...........72

A New Ambassador to Mexico—By Walter Lippmann ........ 84

Three Literary Radicals—By Charles G. Shaw..........92

A Parody Dialogue in Eden—By John Riddell.............94

Poetry and Verse

Victory—By John Drinkwater..............................70

The Pistol Toter—By John P. Fort.........................87

Literary Hors D'Œuvres

"James, My Hat and Stick!"—By Corey Ford...........60

More and Better Snobbery—By Deems Taylor...........70

Proceeding With the American Credo—By George Jean Nathan..... 75

A Ghost Story—By Sherwood Anderson.........78

The Screen Test—By John Monk Saunders........87

The Pearl—By Henri Duvernois....... 90

Satirical Sketches

Where the Blues Begin—By Covarrubias.......64

The New American Currency—By Ralph Barton..............76

Film Favourites—By Lebrun.........83

A Few Familiar Farewells—By Fish.......88

What the Master Modernists Are Doing—By George Luks....... 93

Miscellaneous

The Case of Oscar Slater—By Edmund Pearson.........65

Voices of the People—Photographs............67

On Our Musical Visiting List—Photographs..........86

We Nominate for the Hall of Fame—Photographs ........ 95

Hints on Iron Play in Golf—By Robert T. Jones, Jr.......96

Gifts in the Feminine Manner..........98

For the Well-Dressed Man...........100

Novel Features of Contract Bridge—By R. J. Leibenderfer .......102

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