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Vanity fair : selections from America's most memorable magazine : a cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s

Title

Vanity fair : selections from America's most memorable magazine : a cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s / edited by Cleveland Amory and Frederic Bradlee ; picture editor, Katharine Tweed.

Publication

New York : The Viking Press, Publishers [1960]
©1960

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Description

327 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plates; 32 cm

Summary

Photographs selected are of people much seen or talked about at that time -- leaders in the world of literature, theater, art, music, sport, politics, and society. Also chosen were pictures of celebrities very much of that era.

Uniform Title

Vanity fair (New York, N.Y. : 1914)

Alternative Title

Cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s

Subject

Genre/Form

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Literary collections
Literature
Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Literature.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Littérature.

Note

Includes index.

Contents

And now / Gertrude Stein (pages 280-281).
Introduction. A fair kept / Cleveland Amory -- Frank Crowninshield, editor, man, and uncle / Frederic Bradlee -- In vanity fair / Frank Crowninshield -- Early memories of De Wolf Hopper / Joseph H. Choate -- Force of heredity, and nella / Anita Loos -- Sarah Bernhardt here again / Arthur Johnson -- Memory of Eleonora Duse / Arthur Symons -- Have they attacked Mary. he giggled / Gertrude Stein -- Men: a hate song / Dorothy Rothschild (Dorothy Parker) -- Modern love, by a modern French poet / Paul Geraldy -- Hall of fame 1914-1918 -- Poems / Michael Strange -- All about the income-tax / P.G. Wodehouse -- Confessions of a jail-breaker / Harry Houdini -- Weather-vane points south / Amy Lowell -- First hundred plays are the hardest / Dorothy Parker -- Social life of the newt / Robert C. Benchley -- Hall of fame 1919 -- William Somerset Maugham / Hugh Walpole -- Soul of skylarking / G.K. Chesterton -- Poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Golden age of the dandy / John Peale Bishop -- Adam and Eve / Charles Brackett -- Handy guide for music lovers / Charles N. Drake -- Man who lost himself / Giovanni Papini -- Hall of fame 1920 -- Rhyme and relativity / Louis Untermeyer -- Memoirs of court favourites / Noel Coward -- Love song / Elinor Wylie -- Picture feature: American novelists who have set art above popularity -- Ballad of Yukon Jake / Edward E. Paramore, Jr. -- Lenglen the magnificent / Grantland Rice -- Hall of fame 1921 -- Incredible jeritza / Deems Taylor -- New Hampshire again / Carl Sandburg -- Public and the artist / Jean Cocteau -- Custer's last stand / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Leavetaking (one-act play) / Ferenc Molnar -- Hall of fame 1922 -- David Garrick to John Barrymore / Stark Young -- Strange story / Elinor Wylie -- Symposium: the ten dullest authors -- Poems / T.S. Eliot -- On the approach of middle age / W. Somerset Maugham -- Hall of fame 1923 -- Fred Stone and W.C. Fields / Gilbert Seldes -- Importance of comic genius / Aldous Huxley -- Picture feature: great modern athletes -- Mrs. Fiske: an artist and a personality / Mary Cass Canfield -- Hall of fame 1924 -- One evening / Colette -- Three poems / Walter de la Mare -- Song / Helen Choate -- Memorabilia / E.E. Cummings -- Black blues / Carl van Vechten -- Big casino is little casino (three-act play) / George S. Kaufman -- Symposium: a group of artists write their own epitaphs -- Charlie Chaplin and his new film, The Gold Rush / R.E. Sherwood -- Hall of fame 1925 -- Murder of Captain White / Edmund Pearson -- Western disunion / Geoffrey Kerr -- Rudolph Valentino / Jim Tully -- Symposium: the ideal woman -- Poems of youth and age / Theodore Dreiser -- Hall of fame 1926 -- Blazing publicity / Walter Lippmann -- Picture feature: neighbors at Antibes -- Sort of defense of mothers / Heywood Broun -- Irving Thalberg / Jim Tully -- Last day / Michel Corday -- Birth of a great artist / Andre Maurois -- Theory and Lizzie Borden / Alexander Woollcott -- Hall of fame 1927 -- Three Americans / Charles G. Shaw -- Very critical gentleman / Max Beerbohm -- Outlived thing / Compton Mackenzie -- Deserted battlefields / D.H. Lawrence -- Too general public / Andre Gide -- Hall of fame 1928 --
Captain's memoirs / Alexander Woollcott -- Mental hazards of golf / Robert T. Jones, Jr. -- "God rest you merry, gentlemen ..." / Gilbert W. Gabriel -- Duel without seconds / Djuna Barnes -- This modern living / Arnold Bennett -- Hall of fame 1929 -- Art of dying / Paul Morand -- Two-time / Margaret Case Harriman -- Picture feature: child prodigies -- Mystery of Stroppingwallingshire Downs / Philip Wylie -- Tired men and business women / Geoffrey Kerr -- Hall of fame 1930 -- Picture feature: who's zoo? -- Picture feature: Raoul Dufy, painter of Paris -- Lord of the loincloth / George Slocombe -- Hall of fame 1931 -- Babe / Paul Gallico -- Ordeal by cheque / Wuther Grue -- Twilight of the inkstained gods / Alva Johnston -- Impossible interview: Rockefeller vs. Stalin / Miguel Covarrubias, John Riddell -- Impossible interview: Garbo vs. Coolidge / Miguel Covarrubias, John Riddell -- Smiles on the faces of tigers / Charles Fitzhugh Talman -- Picture feature: as a man thinketh -- Pearly beach / Lord Dunsany -- Picture feature: private lives of the great -- Lydia and the ring-doves / Kay Boyle -- Picture feature: Vanity Fair's school for actors / Joyful James / Clare Boothe -- Picture feature: on the public's beach -- Hall of fame 1932 -- How unlike we are! / Harold Nicolson -- Now there is peace / Richard Sherman -- Picture feature: my, how you have grown -- Sister Aimee: Bernhardt of the sawdust trail / Joseph H. Steele -- White poppies die / Nancy Hale -- President Roosevelt's inauguration / Miguel Covarrubias -- Dixie nocture / Frank Sullivan -- Time and a half / John Riddell --
Picture feature: American potentates (and our national pastime) -- Picture feature: history repeats -- Inflation for Ida / Frank Sullivan -- Hall of fame 1933 -- Thoughts on sin, and advertising / Frank Crowninshield -- Little Caruso / William Saroyan -- Picture feature: male and female, we create them -- Murder in Le Mans / Janet Flanner -- Picture feature: where did you come from, baby dear? -- Picture feature: actor into philanthropist -- Movies take over the stage / George Jean Nathan -- And now / Gertrude Stein -- Picture feature: even kings relax -- Picture feature: celebrities in bed -- Picture feature: hey you, mind your manners! -- Bucharest Du Barry / John Gunther -- Street / Allan Seager -- Valentine for Mr. Woollcott / Dorothy Parker -- Hall of fame 1934 -- Blunders in print / Edmund Pearson -- Time and the place / Frank Fenton -- Picture feature: Lillie in our valley -- Blind spot / John van Druten -- Bums at sunset / Thomas Wolfe -- Hall of fame 1935 -- Compensation instinct / G.B. Stern -- Mesdames Kilbourne / Allan Seager -- Omega / I.S.V.-Patcevitch.

ISBN

0670743143
9780670743148

LCCN

60013340

OCLC

ocm00964840
964840
SCSB-8804226

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library