Stories and articles from Vanity Fair (US)
Editor's Note: This project has been some time in the making, but it is finally over. First of all, thanks go to Terry Mordue and Charles Stone-Tolcher, for sending copies (PDFs) of all the scans that they had, for transcription. Charles, along with Parthasarathy Uppilisrinivasan also helped in transcribing several of the stories. Thanks also go to Raja Srinivasan, who had already put out many of the articles on the current MadamEulalie site, and who had also put out many more as text files on the old Freeservers site; and last but not least, to Ian Michaud, for patiently proof-reading each and every article or story. He also supplied the originals for the last few articles that we did not have. Many of the dramatic criticism articles have photos of actors/ actresses in the original magazine version, but in most cases the scans have rendered the pictures so bad that it is pointless to include them (mere black smudges is all). Hopefully someday better scans will be forthcoming.
The Physical Culture Peril - May, 1914
The Literature of the Future - June, 1914
The Knuts O London - September, 1914
The English Country House - October, 1914
The Noble Art Of Falconry - October, 1914
Stirring Scenes in War Stricken London - November, 1914
The Pleasures of Duelling in Germany - December, 1914
Thoughts on Home Life - December, 1914
Commuting at the Theatre - January, 1915
The Charms of Country Life - January, 1915
Entertaining for the Young - February, 1915
The Country Servant Problem - February, 1915
Boy Page Mr Comstock - March, 1915
Scooterin': Half Sailing, Half Ice-boating - March, 1915
Take your choice of Musical Comedies - April, 1915
All About the pastime of Divorce - May, 1915
Aubreys Arrested Individuality - May, 1915
Bad Time For Theatre Goers - May, 1915
Home Life in the War Zone - May, 1915
The Disappearnce of Podmarsh - June, 1915
The Secret Pleasures of Reginald - June, 1915
What Really Happened To Hamlet - June, 1915
Some thoughts on Mr.Oppenheim - July, 1915
The Military Invasion of America - Part 1 - July, 1915
The Military Invasion of America - Part 2 - August, 1915
Cabaradian Nights - August, 1915
The Eighteenth Hole - August, 1915
The Expulsion From Eden - August, 1915
The So-Called Pleasures of Coney Island - August, 1915
Summer Stuff - September, 1915
A School for Movie Villans - October, 1915
Perfectly Furious - October, 1915
The Europe Weekly Gazette - October, 1915
The First Batch Of Autumn Productions - October, 1915
A Visit to Mr. Chambers Fiction Plant - November, 1915
The Drama, and Trouble in the Home - November, 1915
The Habit of Picking on New York - November, 1915
The Scourge of the Golf Child - November, 1915
Christmas Presents - December, 1915
My Battle with Drink - December, 1915
Some Women and a Little Music - December, 1915
That Viennese Stuff - December, 1915
All About Fashionable Weddings - January, 1916
Cruelty to Millionaires - January, 1916
In Defense of Astigmatism - January, 1916
Shattering the Conventions - January, 1916
The Great White Way Fraud - January, 1916
All About Butlers - February, 1916
Some Theatrical Mysteries - February, 1916
The New Disease - Dementia Warstocks - February, 1916
A Review of Revues - March, 1916
On Being Photographed - March, 1916
Recent Stage Marriages - March, 1916
The Making of Musical Comedies - March, 1916
All About Shakespeare - April, 1916
The Leisurely Drama - April, 1916
The New Musical Shows - April, 1916
Watchman What of the Night - April, 1916
Another Proposed Union - May, 1916
Diary of a War-Time Honeymoon - May, 1916
How to Break into Society - May, 1916
The coming of spring - May, 1916
Tough Times for Critics - May, 1916
A New Figure in Musical Comedy - June, 1916
A Timely chat about Gardens - June, 1916
Drama, Melodrama and Tragedy - June, 1916
The Alarming Spread of Poetry - June, 1916
The New Game of Mental Golf - June, 1916
A Priceless Boon for Authors - July, 1916
The Passing Of The Dramatic Fixer - July, 1916
Where to Spend the Summer - July, 1916
Concerning the Virtues and Vices of Artists - August, 1916
The Somber Sadness of Our Summer Shows - August, 1916
The Three-in-One Presidential Candidate - August, 1916
A Little Chat About a Favorite Summer Sport - September, 1916
All About Me - September, 1916
The Proposed Authors Union - September, 1916
A Great Coming Tennis Match - October, 1916
The Summer Drama - October, 1916
Gladness Under Difficulties - November, 1916
On Reducing the Embonpoint - December, 1916
Our Slack and Slothful Playwrights - December, 1916
Three New Musical Comedies - December, 1916
A Visit to Mr. Hearst's Health Farm - January, 1917
All About New Year's Day - January, 1917
The New Plays of the Old Year - January, 1917
Two Spectacular Musical Reviews - January, 1917
An Appreciation of Vaudeville - February, 1917
Probably the Beginning of an Epidemic - February, 1917
The Agonies of Writing a Musical Comedy - March, 1917
The Marvels and the Mysteries of the Telephone - April, 1917
The Past Theatrical Season - May, 1917
On Certain Phases of the Drama - June, 1917
On the Writing of Lyrics - June, 1917
The New Plays (1917) - July, 1917
The Good Old Summer Time - August, 1917
The Coming Theatrical Season - September, 1917
A Cloudburst on the Rialto - October, 1917
Dishing Up Fiction in Play Form - November, 1917
Fred Stone and a Few Others - December, 1917
Writing the Show at the Century - December, 1917
The Poor Old Drama - January, 1918
The Theatrical Slump - February, 1918
Trials Of A Hard Winter - February, 1918
The Barrymores and Others - April, 1918
The New Plays Seem to Prove That the Line - May, 1918
A Plea for Indoor Golf - May, 1919
All About the Income Tax - May, 1919
The Super Novelists - June, 1919
The Pleasures of Saturday Golf - July, 1919
Prohibition and the Drama - August, 1919
Golf The Last Phase - September, 1919
Keeping Up With Terpsichore - October, 1919
Reviewing a Theatre Audience - November, 1919
The Nation's Songs - December, 1919
The New Plays Along Broadway - April, 1920
The New Plays (1920) - May, 1920
Who Is William Shakespeare - May, 1920
The Season-End Productions - June, 1920
The Theatrical Year - June, 1920
Drawbacks of the Drama in England - December, 1922
Should Ocean Liners be Abolished - January, 1923
Vanity Fair (US)
Vanity Fair was an American society magazine published from 1913-1936. It was highly successful until the Great Depression led to it becoming unprofitable, and it was merged into Vogue magazine in 1936. (from Wikipedia)
Wodehouse published well over a 100 items in Vanity Fair (US), from 1914 through 1923. He wrote under his own name, as well as many aliases, such as P. Brooke-Haven, J. Plum, C. P. West, J. Walker Williams and Pelham Grenville. He was acting as the primary dramatic critic for the magazine, and many of the articles reflect that.
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