VANITY FAIR

Contents for April, 1935

THE KALEIDOSCOPIC REVIEW OF MODERN LIFE

FRANK CROWNINSHIELD, EDITOR • HELEN BROWN NORDEN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR . M. F. AGHA, ART DIRECTOR

COPYRIGHT, 1935, BY THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.

ARTICLES

RUDE AND HONEST ICKES—by Raymond Gram Swing........15

THE HOW AND WHY OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATION—by John Gunther ........ 20

THE JAPANESE GENTLEMAN—by Upton Close...............30

WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR RADICALS—by Jay Franklin............33

OVER THE JUMPS AT AINTREE—by Captain R. C. Lyle.............36

THE THEATRE—by George Jean Nathan ...........41

HERO STUFF—by Paul Gallico................45

HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE—by Helen Brown Norden..............46

MARRIED ABROAD—by Justine L. Whitfield..............52

KING GEORGE'S LONDON....................54

FOUR HUNDRED MILLION BORROWED BOOKS—by Robert Cantwell ............ 56

PRAISE AND PREJUDICE—by George Dangerfield............58

SHORT STORIES

MURDER AT KONAKRY—by William Seabrook...........18

THE GIRL ELLEN—by Erskine Caldwell.............25

MOTHER AND CHILD—by Richard Sherman..............28

THE STRAW HAT—by Arthur Calder-Marshall.............51

PHOTOGRAPHS

GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON—by Nelson..............17

PHILIP MERIVALE—by Steichen...............21

ELISABETH BERGNER—by Steichen..............22

LOUIS HAYWARD—by Steichen.............23

JANE COWL—by Steichen................24

HALL OF FAME.......................37

AN AMERICAN BALLET—SNAPSHOTS IN COLOR—by Steichen............39

NOEL COWARD AND HOPE WILLIAMS—by Nelson...............40

FLORENCE DESMOND—by Cecil Beaton................42

THE DEAN BROTHERS—by Nelson.................44

THE WRESTLERS—by Remie Lohse.................48

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW—by Nelson..............50

FERDINAND PECORA—by Nelson................53

ART AND CARICATURE

HOME LIFE IN EUROPE TODAY—by Garretto.............14

A COLLECTION OF CROWS' FEET—by William Steig..............27

IMPOSSIBLE INTERVIEW—Professor Piccard versus Dr. Beebe—by Covarrubias......... 29

THE JAPANESE FAN—by Claude Monet..........32

ACT III OF SIEGFRIED AT THE METROPOLITAN—by Adolf Dehn.............35