The Magazine

A columnist debunks rumors of flamboyant menswear, then tours New York shops for sensible suits, canes, toys, and shoes.

Reviews of “Mariners,” by Clemence Dane, “The Legend of Leonora,” by Sir James M. Barrie, “Lost,” by A. E. Thomas and George Agnew Chamberlain, and several theatrical productions.

A Paris dispatch surveys snakeskin coats, glittering bracelets, printed chiffons, and other whimsies reshaping feminine wardrobes on the Avenue.

Reviews of Cameron Rogers’s “Colonel Ingersoll,” the Nonesuch edition of “The Complete Works of Thomas Otway,” G. H. Johnstone’s “Prosper Mérimée: A Mask and a Face,” and other books.

Reviews of “See You in Jail,” “The Notorious Lady,” “Irish Destiny,” “Casey at the Bat,” “Tillers of the Soil,” and a short film about fishes.

As William Warren takes over New York’s police, City Hall, Tammany Hall, and ordinary pedestrians brace for a new balance of power.

A wry roll call of New York’s low-number license plates, and the elusive social power they’re supposed to confer.

Architecture criticism of the “Tel and Tel” Building, the Aeolian Building, Salmon Tower, the American Radiator Company Building, St. Bartholomew’s Community House, and nearby Park Avenue structures.

Inside William Childs’s quiet crusade to turn a vast lunchroom empire, and its Fifth Avenue showplaces, into vegetable evangelists.

Indoor upsets and rallies as Yale, Brooklyn, Chicago, and the New York Athletic Club battle for winter polo supremacy.

Exhibitions of paintings by Alexander Brook, Charles Sheeler, Peter Blume, Elsie Driggs, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Karl Knaths, Niles Spencer, and Saul Schary at Charles Daniel’s gallery.

A wry tour of new luxury cars, from Rolls-Royce’s “American Phantom” to sleeve-valve upstarts, and the quirks between.

Reviews of a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Saint Paul,” a League of Composers program at the Jolson Theatre, and concerts by the American Orchestral Society.

A breezy 1927 tour of New York Easter gifts, from painted eggs and toy shops to orchids, rugs, and telephones.

A caustic dispatch from the Garden: dubious “champions,” dangerous officiating, bruising Bruins, and proof that professionals still care.

A tour of newsroom skirmishes and stunts—from Scripps-Howard’s gambits to Mrs. Ogden Reid’s coup and Valentino’s “messages.”