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1936-01 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

1936/01 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 64 pages plus covers.

Cover design — Skiing at Lake Placid by Deyneka

Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • The Smart Woman of Japan by Upton Close
  • New Year’s Resolutions 1936
  • Major Riddell’s Amateur Hour by John Riddell
  • Murder in the Belfry by Edmund Pearson
  • Freedom for the Child? by George Seddon
  • Those Royal Virtuosi — The Swedish Bernadottes — by John Mason Brown
  • First, Second and Third Lady — Mrs. Roosevelt — by Jay Franklin
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • Babes in the Drink by Paul Gallico
  • Hollywood on Parade by Helen Brown Norden
  • The Dancer and the Queen by George Davis
  • Praise and Prejudice by George Dangerfield

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • Mrs. Malley and the Artist by Dan Wickenden
  • Charity Begins by Allan Seager
  • La Serenata by William Standish Stone
  • …And Bells on My Toes by Thomas Beer

    • PHOTOGRAPHS:

  • June Knight color photograph by Bruehl-Bourges
  • Lily Pons by Steichen
  • Peter Lorre by Nelson
  • Beatrice Lillie by Nelson
  • Rosita Montenegro by Schall
  • Marlene Dietrich color photograph by Bruehl-Bourges
  • Max Reinhardt by Nelson
  • Hall of Fame
  • Father Divine of Harlem
  • Mary Taylor by Nelson
  • Russia’s Sportswomen
  • Pride and Prejudice by Steichen
  • The White Hopes of Broadway by Nelson
  • The Kompa Sisters by Remie Lohse
  • Charles Spencer Chaplin by Steichen

    • ART AND CARICATURE:

  • Self-Portrait — by Van Gogh, Photographed in Color by Bourges
  • Going to the Opera by Adolf Dehn
  • Impossible Interview — George Arliss vs. Cardinal Richelieu, Duke of Wellington, and Disreasli in color by Covarrubias
  • The American Ballet by Dora Abrahams

    • Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover.