Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Mar-Aug 1916
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
00038
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Began publishing in 1915; mid-level fan magazine on par with Movie Classic and Screenland. Cost a twenty five cents an issue up until pricing pressure from New Movie (c. 1932) incited an across-the-board price decrease to 10 cents. Merged with Charm in 1941, which would later become Glamour magazine (1959). -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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24 Pictures that Made Stars one who saw it as a photo-play masterpiece. Only once after this did Miss Barriscale equal her wonderful work in "The Cup of Life," and that was in "The Mating," an entirely different type of play. How many of the companies are realizing on the profits made by the stars that they made? Very, very few, I can assure you. The Famous Players have Mary Pickford, who first gained her recognition under Griffith at Biograph. Triangle is gathering in money on Griffith and Sennett's reputations, which were established at Biograph. Essanay is. getting the benefit of the popularity Charlie Chaplin got for himself while with the Keystone forces, and is also winning on Walthall, who gained his spurs with Mutual under Griffith. The Metro Feature Corporation is profiting by Bushman's popularity, made when with the Essanay Company. William Farnum is packing the theaters using Fox service, and Selig, who made him, has lost out. You will see from the foregoing that it is very seldom that the company which "makes" a player ever derives any benlit from it. Because Robert Warwick was so perfectly fitted to the hero's role in ''The Dollar Mark" he was hailed as a star upon his first screen appearance.