Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

166 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE Just the Gift For Picture Fans WHAT could be more suitable as a Christmas gift for your father or mother, your brother or sister, or your sweetheart, than a subscription to the Motion Picture Magazine ? It is a gift that they would enjoy, not for one clay only, but for many days. Each month it would be a reminder to them of your kindness at Christmas time. In addition to the magazine, a set of beautiful half life-size tinted portraits, selected by yourself from the list of twenty-four given below, will be sent FREE, to gladden the heart of its recipient at Merry Yuletide. An 8 Months' Subscription and 7 Portraits $1.00 A Year's Subscription and 10 Portraits $1.50 Two or more Yearly Subscriptions and Pictures $1.00 each Choose from This List Carlyle Black well Edwin August Lillian Walker Arthur Johnson James Cruze Beverly Bayne Crane Wilbur King Baggot Mary Pickford Earle Williams Mary Fuller Mabel Normand John Bunny Edith Storey Blanche Sweet Romaine Fielding Alice Joyce Pauline Bush F. X. Bushman Clara K.Young Vivian Rich Warren Kerrigan Lottie Briscoe Flo'nce Lawrence Just fill out the attached coupon, write a list of the pictures and full instructions on a separate sheet, mail with the proper remittance, and your order will be given prompt attention. A beautiful ''gift card" will be mailed as directed by you. Our subscription department will soon be busy with Christmas orders. You had better send yours in early. Why not do it today? MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn. X. Y. Gentlemen: Enclosed please find S for yearly ) . ,. > subscriptions to be sent as a Christinas gift to Further instrud Signed. Address LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ellen Paterson, of Chicago, touches on a point on which most of us agree : I wish to make a plea for improvement in one very important and heretofore neglected branch of tbe Motion Picture business — that of artistic advertising. It seems to me at this time, when the various companies are striving for perfection in the pictures, that more attention should be paid to the quality of the posters advertising those pictures. They— the posters, which give no adequate idea of the pictures— are of such lurid coloring that they seem better suited to the tent of a Wild West show than to the lobbies of the beautiful theaters which we now have in our cities. I hope that your splendid magazine may be the means of bringing this subject before the people. Miss Frances L. Cox, of 1300 Brook Street, Louisville, Ky., says what she has to say briefly, neatly and rhythmically : To know all about the screen, buy the Motion Picture Magazine. There you will find about your favorite star, pictures and stories from afar. Answers to questions there are many ; mean editorials it hasn't any ; contests, jottings, letters and chats — to all the magazine we take off our hats. Mrs. E. H. K., of Birmingham, Ala., is a great admirer of the Vitagraph and Essanay companies : We have had Earle Williams in "Love's Sunset,"' one of the most beautiful dramas ever written, and incomparably acted, and now I am waiting with impatience for something else to be done by this gifted artist. Soon also I hope to see other strong dramas featuring Arthur Ashley, James Morrison, William Humphrey, Rankin Drew, Dorothy Kelley, Naomi Childers, Leah Baird and Mrs. Mary Maurice — than whom there is not one more lovely. I think any company should feel very fortunate to number among their elderly artists such people as Mrs. Maurice and Charles Kent, of Vitagraph. and W. Christie Miller, of Biograph. I am a Vitagraph "fan," as you see, but not to the exclusion of all other pictures, for I still have superlatives in reserve for other companies. Essanay is running Vitagraph a close second, and there are other companies who have very gifted artists of whom I would like to write later on. Mary Fuller, for instance; I hope Uni When answering advertisements kindly mention MOTION PICTURE 3IAGAZINK.