The Press: Vanity Fair

speakeasy scenes by george luks the president’s unkind words on crime . . .

Thus, without capitals, were the headlines and picture captions in vanity fair for October. Always arty, Conde Nast’s monthly smartchart of fashionable foreignisms seemed like an esthete who had discovered a bigger, fancier orchid for his buttonhole.

A poet who calls himself e e cummins and who has successfully posed for years without capitals, has had several things in vanity fair. Some readers wondered if the whole magazine had now come under his influence.

Others fancied it was a case where a smartchart had been put to it to outsmart its smart advertisements, of which the October vanity fair had 65 pages ahead of the text and 58 pages behind.

Immediate author of the change was a Russo-Turk named Mehemed Fehmy Agha whom Publisher Nast brought to the U. S. last month and made art director of all the Nast publications.