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1932-06 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

1932/06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 84 pages plus covers.

Cover design — von Hindenburg — by Oberle

Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

THE WORLD OF IDEAS:

  • The taxpayers’ orgy by Marcus Duffield
  • The national straw-vote season by Jefferson Chase
  • Hindenburg of Germany by Richard von Kuhlmann
  • Wanted: a Dictator!
  • International week-enders by Jay Franklin
  • Bootlegging for Junior by Dalton Trumbo
  • Vicious spirals by Walter Lippmann

    • IN AND ABOUT THE THEATRE:

  • Mexicana — Lupe Velez — photograph by Steichen
  • The theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • “Grand Hotel” photographs
  • Paris rebound — Ina Claire — photograph by Hoyningen-Huene
  • Gebruder Gershwin by Isaac Goldberg with drawings by Alajalov

    • CONCERNING THE CINEMA:

  • Tarzan of the pools — Johnny Weissmuller — photograph by Hoyningen-Huene
  • Dorothy Jordan — photograph by Steichen
  • Dita Parlo — photograph by Steichen

    • THE WORLD OF ART:

  • Paul Manship’s Lincoln
  • A series of American Artists — No. 3 — Edward Hopper (color)

    • LITERARY HORS D’OEUVRES:

  • Speakeasy of love by Frank Lynn Parke
  • Friday to Monday by Sylvia Lyon
  • Argentine blues by Paul Morand
  • A man must write by John Riddell
  • Laying out the garden by Corey Ford
  • Edward Steichen by Clare Boothe Brokaw

    • SPORTS AND GAMES:

  • Everlast 1932 by Paul Gallico
  • The one over one vs. Culbertson by David Burnstine
  • Olive Hatch — photograph by Steichen

    • SATIRICAL SKETCHES:

  • The gold standard bearer — Ogden L. Mills — in color by William Cotton
  • Impossible Interviews — No. 7 — Marie of Romania vs. Mae West in color by Covarrubias

    • MISCELLANEOUS:

  • Thomas W. Lamont — photograph by Steichen
  • This was their year of grace — photographs
  • Smith vs. Roosevelt
  • We nominate for oblivion — photographs (4 photos, one of which is Hitler who is labeled demagogue)
  • Is Washington done with mirrors?
  • Query on!
  • For the well-dressed man

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Ethyl Gasoline with color illustration by Karl Godwin on the inside front cover, Pierce-Arrow auto, Chrysler Imperial, Pitcairn Autogiro with color illustration by Charles Kaiser, Hudson Pacemaker, The Lincoln V-12, Packard, Studebaker, Cine-Kodak, Goodyear on the inside back cover, and a beautiful Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad featuring a large image of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))