Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

m iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 11 1 The February 1 1 Classic B ■ Some of the Features: M M FLORENCE TURNER B m Of course, you remember s the beloved Florence of old B Vitagraph ? Six years ago she m m crossed the seas, but now she m m has returned to the films. Here m m is a human, vital story of Miss M Turner, who has been for B m months touring the British M camps and hospitals entertain = 1 ing the English Tommies. H H PRISCILLA DEAN = H Something of a “nut inter view” is this humorous chat = = with Priscilla of the wonderful m fuzzy coiffure. There are m plenty of laughs in this little M B talk with Miss Dean, who. = m most of all, loves “to travel = M fast,” be it in auto or ’plane. H 1 DICK BARTHELMESS Dick, just out of Trinity Col M lege, Hartford, Conn., went di s = rectly into the films with Her = B bert Brenon in Alla Nazimova’s m “War Brides.” He has been B B coming along rapidly ever m = since, until now he’s one of the B m favorite juvenile leads of the B B silverscreen. B B FAIRE BINNEY B ■ Is little Miss Binney a star B in the making? Anyway, you’ll == be interested in this story of a B m girl, who, in a few months, has = worked her way up to playing opposite Jack Barrymore in the B J films. M These are but a few of the ■ B fascinating February features B m of The Classic, which, aside B m from its many intimate chats B M and articles, and its hundreds of new and striking pictures, B B will carry the cream of the B M month’s photoplays in fiction B B ized form. The February B Classic will have three big film = m dramas in story form, including = Billie Burke’s “Good Gracious, B m Annabelle” and Norma Tal m S madge’s “Heart of Wetona.” B = And there’s a beautiful cover m of Clara Kimball Young. ■ m The Motion Picture Classic M 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. ■ iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii il Vol. Vll JANUARY, 1919, No. 5 THE GIRL ON THE COVER (Cover painted by Leo Sielke) Marguerite Clark seems to us an ideal choice for The Classic’s holiday cover. For, thru her frequent and charming appearances in screen fairy tales, Miss Clark has come to represent our ideal heroine of elfland. She has touched a fanciful, imaginative note quite unlike any other player of the silverscreen. Surely the films are the sweeter for Miss Clark. Here’s hoping that, during the coming year, she gives us at least another “Prunella,” another “The Seven Swans” or another “Snow White.” PAGE Gallery of Popular Players. Studies of Olga Petrova, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Pickford, Anna Q. Nilsson and Evelyn Nesbit 11-15 A Pearl in the Rough. The very real confessions of the very real Miss White Frederick James Smith 16 Desperate Desmond. William is Irish and happy and carefree Sue Roberts 18 Florence, the Oriental. Miss Reed loves good books, good music, good plays and being busy Aileen St. I ohn-Brenon 20 Sessue of the Samurai. Hayakawa has the soul of the proud old Japanese caste ...Harry C. Carr 22 Where There’s an Alice Brady, There’s a Way. The busiest star of the screen and stage C. Blythe Sherwood 24 Billie Rhodes — Circus Girl. The newest feature star of the silverscreen Elkabeth Peltret 26 So Toils the Busy Little Bebe. In this case it’s Miss Daniels 28 Holt — Who Goes There? Otherwise Jack, the fascinating screen villain Mary Keane Taylor 29 Cutting the Gordon Knot. New pictures of Kitty Gordon 30 Have a Hart! Might as well— Bill has — and plenty of it Faith Service 31 The Hope Chest. Fictionized from Dorothy Gish’s charming comedy Janet Reid 33 Ann Little and the Great Desire. A philosophical chat Adam Hull Shirk 36 Herbert Brenon in Merrie England 38 The Man Who Is Never Himself. George Fawcett lives his characters Fritai Reniont 39 Fame Found Her in the Subway. How success came to Helene Chadwick Ethel Rosemon 41 ’Ception Shoals. Alla Nazimova’s powerful drama told in story form Frederick Russell 43 The Extra Girl Plays Court Reporter Ethel Rosemon 47 The Celluloid Critic. The new photoplays in review. . .Frederick James Smith 48 The Holidays in the Theater. Interesting pictures of the • new footlight attractions 50 The Poor Little Rich Star. Tragedy has come to little Viola Dana Faith Service 52 Before and After Taking. A photographer’s day with the Gishes E. M. Robbins 54 The Parisian Wife. A fascinating story adapted from Elsie Ferguson’s photoplay Dorothy Donnell 56 Gossip of the Pacific Coast FritH Remont 60 Double Exposures. The Classic’s department of humorous comment on plays and players Conducted by F. J. S. 62 The Movie Encyclopedia The Answer Man 76 Published monthly at 775 Dtiffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Subscription, $2.00 a year, in advance, including postage in the U. S., Cuba, Mexico, and Philippines; in Canada, $2.30 a year; in foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 20 cents, postage prepaid. One-rent stamps accepted. Subscribers must notify us at once of any change of address, giving both old and new address. Entered at the Brooklyn, N. Y'.'i Post Office as Second-class Matter. Cooyright, 1918, by the M. P. Publishing Co., in the United States and Grea' Britain, a New York corporation, with its principal offices at Bayshore, N. Y. Eugene V. Brewste-, President; J. Stuart Blackton, Vice-President; E. M. Heinemann, Secretary; Eleanor V. V. Brewster, Treasurer. STAFF FOR THE CLASSIC: Eugene V. Brew-ster, Managing Editor; Frederick James Smith, Literary Editor Dorothy Donnell, Robert J. 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