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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