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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.

    1935-05 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

    1935/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 76 pages plus covers.

    Cover design — Easter Egg Rolling at the White House by Garretto

    Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

    ARTICLES:

  • Heil, Huey! by Corey Ford
  • Washington on the Half-Shell by Arthur Loring Bruce
  • The Grand Guillotiner of Paris by Janet Flanner
  • The Public Plunges Again by Robert Cantwell
  • Bumping the Ceiling in Sports by Paul Gallico
  • The New Unbalance of Power in Europe by Raymond Gram Swing
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • Hollywood on Parade by Helen Brown Norden
  • Parlog Tag — The New Rage
  • Goering — The Nazi Lion-Tamer by John Gunther
  • Thoughts on Becoming an American Citizen by George Drapier
  • King George’s London
  • The Poisoning of Widow Hart by John Kobler
  • Praise and Prejudice by George Dangerfield

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • Slow Train Through Carolina by Richard Sherman
  • Part-Time Panther in Daloa by William Seabrook
  • You G-I-I-ve Yourself–Or Drop the Handkerchief by Tess Slesinger

    • PHOTOGRAPHS:

  • The Great American Money Magnet — Composite Photograph
  • H.G. Wells by Steichen
  • Colonel Roscoe Turner by Nelson
  • Hall of Fame
  • Julie Haydon by Steichen
  • The Circus by Nelson
  • Glenn Cunningham by Nelson
  • Ethel Merman and William Gaxton color photograph by Steichen
  • Lou Gehrig by Nelson – Photo area is appx. 7-1/2″ X 8-1/2″ with text caption underneath
  • New York’s Fashionable Models
  • Richard Cromwell by Hoyningen-Huene
  • Karen Morley by Nelson
  • Al Jolson & Ruby Keeler by Goldberg

    • ART AND CARICATURE:

  • Huey Long — caricature by William Cotton in color
  • Columns in the Temple of the Press by Alain
  • Impossible Interview — Dr. Freud vs. Jean Harlow in color by Covarrubias
  • The Confused Witness by Forain
  • Temperament by William Gropper

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: LaSalle auto, 2-page French Line ad for the S.S. Normandie, Old Gold Cigarettes ad with Petty Girl illustrated by George Petty, Goodyear on the inside back cover, and a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover.

    1935-03 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

    1935/03 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 76 pages plus covers.

    Cover design — American Puppet Show by Garretto

    Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

    ARTICLES:

  • No Southern Gentleman by Robert Cantwell
  • The Supreme Court in 1935 by Jay Franklin
  • Why I Hate Parties by Gary Eagels
  • Some Pioneers in the Snatch Racket by David Frederick McCord
  • 42 Years in the Vanderbilt Family by John Riddell
  • Why We Clash With Japan by Upton Close
  • How to Torture a Movie Star by Don Schwarzkopf
  • California’s “Bluebeard” Watson by Edmund Pearson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • A Great English Golfer: John Ball by Bernard Darwin
  • Hollywood on Parade by Helen Brown Norden
  • Bill Tilden and Pro Tennis by John R. Tunis
  • King George’s London — a monthly review
  • Madness Among the Experts by Samuel Fry, Jr.

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • The Caged White Woman of the Saraban by William Seabrook
  • Fugue for Harmonica by Allan Seager
  • One Last Goodbye by Richard Sherman

    • PHOTOGRAPHS:

  • The Dicatator — composite photograph by Bourges
  • Amateur Night on the Air Waves by Remie Lohse
  • Yehudi Menuhin and Sisters by Nelson
  • Dolores Del Rio by Steichen
  • Anna May Wong photograph in color by Steichen
  • The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz featuring Georgia O’Keefe
  • Tallulah Bankhead by Nelson
  • Lily Damita by Steichen
  • Hall of Fame
  • Myrna Loy by Hurrell

    • ART AND CARICATURE:

  • Donald Richberg — caricature by William Cotton in color
  • The Party Guests by Steig
  • New Titles for Old Masters
  • Impossible Interview — Dr. Samuel Johnson versus Alexander Woolcott in color by Covarrubias
  • The Garden Through the Window — by Segonzac. Photographed in color by Bourges
  • The Flying Trapeze by Margaret Peterson

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Cadillac, Goodyear Tires on the inside front cover, and a Camel Cigarettes ad feautring Jack Shea on the back cover.

    1933-11 Vanity Fair Magazine Contents

    1933/11 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Issue measures appx. 9-3/4″ X 12-3/4″ with 72 pages plus covers.

    Cover design — Disarmament Conference — by Garretto

    Contents as gathered from the Index are as follows:

    The World of Ideas:

  • The world is saved again–and again by Andre Maurois
  • The sacred scraps of paper — Photographs
  • Parvenus in politics by Jay Franklin
  • Nevada without giants by David Senseney
  • Bacchus Over the Customs House by Frank Schoonmaker

    • In and About the Theatre:

  • The Ballet Redivivus — photographs
  • Victor Moore photograph by Steichen
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • George M. Cohan photograph by Steichen
  • Helen Hayes photograph by Cecil Beaton

    • Concerning the Cinema:

  • Norma Shearer photograph by Steichen
  • The screen by Pare Lorentz
  • Mary Astor photograph by Steichen
  • Male and female–we create them — photographs

    • The World of Art:

  • Self-portrait by Paul Cezanne (in color)
  • George Grosz photograph by Horst

    • The Notion Counter:

  • How to spend $3,300,000,000 by Corey Ford
  • Club car by Harold Nicolson
  • A detail of the depression by Irvin S. Cobb
  • The dry funeral parade by Frank Sullivan
  • Bark, the Moorish Slave by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Horse thief by Erskine Caldwell
  • The imperfect lady by Sylvia Lyon

    • Satirical Sketches:

  • Maxim Litvinov caricature by Jean Oberle (in color)
  • Political gasbags by Steig
  • Private lives of the great–No. 2–Professor William Beebe caricature by Covarrubias (in color)
  • The Supreme Bench caricatures by Al Hirschfeld
  • Vanity Fair’s own paper dolls–no. 2–Aimee MacPherson caricature by Alajalov

    • Sports and Games:

  • The good old games by Sir Basil Twittingham
  • Football rule-book 1933 by John Riddell

    • Miscellaneous:

  • James P. Warburg photograph by Nelson
  • Raymond Moley photograph by Steichen
  • Fiorello LaGuardia photograph by Nelson
  • Hall of fame — photographs
  • The Smoky Mountaineer photograph by Louise Dahl Wolfe
  • Art versus nature — photographs
  • For the well-dressed man

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Budweiser on the inside front cover, Grace Line, Pabst Blue Ribbon, White Rock Water, Schick Dry Shaver*, Goodyear 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 (*))

    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 (*))

    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 (*))

    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 (*))