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The Eighteenth Amendment can be repealed by John Hemphill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 (*))