Gabrielle Sidonie Colette, considered by many critics and a vast public as the greatest living woman writer, made her first visit to America on the maiden voyage of the Normandie, stayed three days, and returned to Paris to write articles for Le Journal on the spectacle of Manhattan. For upwards of forty years—she is now in her sixties—she has been one of the famed figures of France—noted for her wit and her extraordinarily versatile talents. She is an expert at depicting the delicate psychology of women in love; she is an authority on cats—she has owned uncomputed numbers of them—and on music halls—she has acted in them, danced in them, and composed songs for them. She has written thirty books, the latest of which to he published in America is The Indulgent Husband; she draws creditable portraits; she was the first woman in France to bob her hair; and she has been thrice married—to Willy, the celebrated comic illustrator, to Henri de Jouvenel, and, currently, to Maurice Gourdeket. Incidentally, VANITY FAIR was the first magazine in the United States to publish her translated short stories