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1932-10 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

1932/10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 72 pages plus covers.

Cover design — Mussolini — by Covarrubias

Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

THE WORLD OF IDEAS:

  • Uncle Shylock’s dilemma by Drew Pearson
  • Mussolini’s next ten years by George Slocombe
  • Baltimoreans have no headaches by Mark S. Watson
  • How to treat reporters by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
  • Keeping the Open Door open by Henry Carter
  • Balancing the books by Ogden L. Mills
  • The Wendels and their wills by Edmund Pearson
  • Three votes for a dollar by Wayne Gard
  • Columnists by Harry Salpeter

    • IN AND ABOUT THE THEATRE:

  • Tragedienne Russe — Alla Nazimova — photograph by Steichen
  • Dorothy Hall — photograph by Steichen
  • The theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie McClintic (Katharine Cornell) — photograph by Vandamm

    • CONCERNING THE CINEMA:

  • The return of the comedian — photograph of Harold Lloyd by Steichen
  • Two men of Hollywood by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is about Ronald Colman and Ramon Novarro with sketches of each by Fairbanks Jr.
  • The screen by Pare Lorentz
  • Sister Joan — photograph of Joan Bennett by Steichen
  • Young star — photograph of Loretta Young by Steichen

    • THE WORLD OF ART:

  • Blue eyes and sea — by Leon Kroll — full page in color

    • SATIRICAL SKETCHES:

  • Germany’s Junker Statesman — Franz von Papen — caricature by Jean Oberle in color
  • The depression by George Grosz
  • Impossible Interviews — No. 11 — Chief Justice Hughes vs. Al Capone in color by Covarrubias

    • LITERARY HORS D’OEUVRES:

  • Paris after dark by Paul Morand
  • Reenter the pamphleteer! by Jefferson Chase
  • Paris through the keyhole by Maurice Sachs
  • The happy hypochondriac by Sylvia Lyon

    • SPORTS AND GAMES:

  • The Texas babe by Paul Gallico is about Babe Didrikson with a small photo
  • Our sporting columnists — photographs

    • MISCELLANEOUS:

  • Pope Pius XI — photograph by G. Felici
  • Other strings to their bows — photographs of famous people playing the violin — Mussolini, Upton Sinclair, Albert Einstein, Charles Chaplin and others
  • Anatomy pays — photographs
  • Hall of Fame — photographs
  • The Socialist — Norman Thomas — photograph by Steichen
  • Air-minded — photographs
  • For the well-dressed man
  • The pitch shots by Robert T. Jones, Jr. with small photo of Gene Sarazen
  • Contract Bridge at the Cavendish by Julius G. Wetzlar

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Lincoln ad on inside front cover, Camel Cigarettes, and a Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))