Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 171 bit Isli bin so doonib, you have uo idea. Well bye-bye. and do answer all my questions, With all my love, and all that's coming to me, I am Yours as ever and forever "Olga, 17" P. S. Do you know anyone who specializes in siderography? I'm going now, don't throw it, PLEASE. Miss Leonore Mc Curdy, of Pittsburg, Pa., "says what the rest of us but think": It is a privilege to be permitted to express, thru the pages of your magazine, our admiration and appreciation of the players who amuse and interest us day after day on the Moving Picture screen. The Moving Picture brings more pleasure to the public than any other entertainment in the whole world. Where else can we see depicted life in all its phases? And nature, in a wilclness and beauty of which we can have no conception, even in our dreams? — the roll of the mighty ocean ; the storm in its terrible splendor ; the Indians and their life; the brave and the cowardly. We laugh with you in your comedies, and weep with you in your sorrows. No place else do hearts beat in unison as at the Moving Picture show. And into the hardest heart will creep tender memories, and down the cheek will steal the long-forbidden tear, when Mrs. Mary Maurice looks out at us with tender "mother" eyes. So I say long live the picture players, and good luck to them all. "We can well imagine that Mr. J. B. King, of Fort Warden, Wash., has been a soldier himself : Please treat the following not as a criticism, but as a suggestion that some of the writers of military pictures might accidentally come across and give consideration. I am a great picture fan. but a military photoplay can arouse my disgust almost as quickly as a personal insult. What is so ridiculous is that no apparent thought is given to insignia of rank, relations of superiors to inferiors, military customs, and a thousand other little details. This makes a continuous run out of harmony that would draw a laugh from a person who has been connected with the military service. In one recent photoplay I saw a supposed colonel with the uniform of a brigadier-general, and, additional horror, he was in command of a company of infantry. WRITE PICTURE PLAYS and make BIG NONET i Twenty million moving picture "fans*' attend thirty thousand moving picture theaters in the United States every day. Thousands of moving picture plays are bought each year by the producers to supply the enormous demand — in fact — THERE ARE MORE MOVING PICTURE PLAYS BOUGHT EACH MONTH THAN THERE ARE STORIES BY ALL THE HIGH-CLASS MAGAZINES IN THE UNITED STATES COMBINED. Producers are paying $15.00 to $100.00 for motion picture plays, and carry standing advertisements in the magazines inviting writers to submit their work. 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