Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912)

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134 TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE votes, and we wish it were possible personally to acknowledge every one of them, instead of selecting only a scattered few to print. CONTEST CLOSES MAY THIRD The contest will end at midnight, May third, and no votes will be counted which are received after that date, except in the case of letters received on the fourth which bear a postmark of April thirtieth or an earlier date. The result will be announced in the June issue, which comes out on May twentieth. We are surprised at the great number of single votes received. Every mail contains hundreds of such votes. Also, a great many clubs of girls or young men have sent in long lists of votes for their favorite players. THE PRIZES It has not yet been decided what the first prize will be, because we do not know whether the winner will be a man or a woman. The first fifty on the list will each receive one of the engraved certificates, a reduced imprint of which is shown on the preceding page. The first five of the fifty will each receive, in addition, a gift which we think is absolutely unique, original, and priceless in value. It is a fact that several numbers of our magazine are out of print now, and hence bound volumes will be impossible in the future ; but we have managed to get together five complete sets of the last sixteen issues (Feb., 1911-May, 1912). Each of these sets will be bound, four numbers to a volume, in the best way that the bookbinder knows how. We have chosen Von Heill to bind these books. Each of the first five players will receive a set of four volumes ; the first one will receive an additional gift. One of these sets will be bound in Levant, one set in full Turkey morocco, and the others in full French morocco. Each volume will be hand-tooled, and elaborately decorated in gold, and each will contain a printed sheet announcing that the winner received it as a gift from us for popularity as a player. These books will be really wonders of the bookmaker's art, and some day their value will be priceless to book collectors and seekers after first editions. As a permanent record of the possessors' Photoplay creations, we trust that they will be an invaluable heirloom. The editorial force spent a long time deciding: what would be a suitable present to give to these players. The customary prizes of diamonds or* watches did not appeal to us, and we decided to find a gift which money could not buy, which will last many lifetimes, and which generations to come will prize, since it represents the first edition of the first Motion Picture Magazine ever published. Some of these sets will cost fifty dollars for binding alone. We wish that these books could be put on exhibition somewhere, so that all our readers could see them. They will be sent to the winners at the studios where they are employed, where, no doubt, they will be seen by many associates and friends of the winners. We are more than pleased to note that very few of the players have exerted themselves in their own behalf, and neither have the manufacturers supported any particular candidates. As nearly as we can tell, the support seems to come from the public, and while it is noticeable that some players have the faculty of attracting large groups of people to support them enthusiastically, there are many other players, who are, perhaps, just as good, and just as much admired, who do not have this faculty. For example, take Paul W. Panzer. Mr. Panzer does not stand high in the contest, but, tho everybody will admit that he has few, if any, superiors in his line, his work has been such as not to win the kind of popularity that makes people work for him.