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1932-04 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

1932/04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 84 pages plus covers.

Cover design — James J. Walker — by Covarrubias

Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

THE WORLD OF IDEAS:

  • The Eighteenth Amendment can be repealed by John Hemphill
  • Wanted: a post-war party by Jefferson Chase
  • Life in a Russian apartment by Alexander Nazaroff
  • The American caste system by Alva Johnston
  • Joyful James by Clre Booth Brokaw is about Jimmie Walker, the Mayor of New York
  • Manchuria: a tragedy of errors by George E. Sokolsky
  • A politician looks at business by Jay Franklin
  • William E. Borah
  • What American Music is American? by John Tasker Howard
  • The modern Roman circus by Vladimir Potts

    • IN AND ABOUT THE THEATRE:

  • The theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • Beatrice Lillie and Hope Williams — photograph by Von Horn
  • Diana Wynyard — photograph by Steichen
  • Ernest Truex — photograph by Steichen
  • Leslie Howard — photograph by Steichen

    • CONCERNING THE CINEMA:

  • William Haines by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
  • Sylvia Sidney — photograph by Steichen
  • Evelyn Brent — color photograph by Steichen

    • THE WORLD OF ART:

  • A series of American Artists — No. 1 — Georgia O’Keefe (color)
  • Myron C. Taylor by Sir William Orpen

    • LITERARY HORS D’OEUVRES:

  • “Merrily we roll a log” by Corey Ford
  • Merchant of souvenirs by Donald Moffat
  • Bertram the burgler by Edmund Pearson
  • The Hyndsyte Saga by John Riddell
  • The lost stars by Nancy Hale

    • SPORTS AND GAMES:

  • It is to weep by Paul Gallico
  • Sailor Jack Sharkey — pugilist — photograph by Steichen
  • Vanity Fair’s bridge problems

    • SATIRICAL SKETCHES:

  • Impossible Interviews — No. 5 — John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and Stalin in color by Covarrubias

    • MISCELLANEOUS:

  • The Right Honorable Winston Churchill — photograph by Steichen
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay — photograph by Bernice Abbott
  • Robinson Jeffers — photograph by Edward Weston
  • A photographer of the 40’s — photographs
  • Errors that have no end — photographs
  • Our ink-stained explorers — photographs
  • Hall of fame — photographs
  • For the well-dressed man

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Goodyear on the inside front cover, Holeproof Hosiery ad by Erte, Lincoln with color illustration of the New Lincoln V-3 Five-Passenger Coupe, Pierce-Arrow Auto, French Line Cruises, Studebaker, Cine-Kodak, Nash Auto, Packard, Chevrolet, the Chrysler Imperial, Pitcairn Autogiro with color illustration by Will Hollingsworth, Ethyl Gasoline with color illustration by Karl Godwin 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 (*))