1933/11 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 72 pages plus covers.
Cover design — Disarmament Conference — by Garretto
Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:
The World of Ideas:
The world is saved again–and again by Andre Maurois
The sacred scraps of paper — Photographs
Parvenus in politics by Jay Franklin
Nevada without giants by David Senseney
Bacchus Over the Customs House by Frank Schoonmaker
In and About the Theatre:
The Ballet Redivivus — photographs
Victor Moore photograph by Steichen
The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
George M. Cohan photograph by Steichen
Helen Hayes photograph by Cecil Beaton
Concerning the Cinema:
Norma Shearer photograph by Steichen
The screen by Pare Lorentz
Mary Astor photograph by Steichen
Male and female–we create them — photographs
The World of Art:
Self-portrait by Paul Cezanne (in color)
George Grosz photograph by Horst
The Notion Counter:
How to spend $3,300,000,000 by Corey Ford
Club car by Harold Nicolson
A detail of the depression by Irvin S. Cobb
The dry funeral parade by Frank Sullivan
Bark, the Moorish Slave by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Horse thief by Erskine Caldwell
The imperfect lady by Sylvia Lyon
Satirical Sketches:
Maxim Litvinov caricature by Jean Oberle (in color)
Political gasbags by Steig
Private lives of the great–No. 2–Professor William Beebe caricature by Covarrubias (in color)
The Supreme Bench caricatures by Al Hirschfeld
Vanity Fair’s own paper dolls–no. 2–Aimee MacPherson caricature by Alajalov
Sports and Games:
The good old games by Sir Basil Twittingham
Football rule-book 1933 by John Riddell
Miscellaneous:
James P. Warburg photograph by Nelson
Raymond Moley photograph by Steichen
Fiorello LaGuardia photograph by Nelson
Hall of fame — photographs
The Smoky Mountaineer photograph by Louise Dahl Wolfe
Art versus nature — photographs
For the well-dressed man
Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Budweiser on the inside front cover, Grace Line, Pabst Blue Ribbon, White Rock Water, Schick Dry Shaver*, Goodyear on the inside back cover, and a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))
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