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 #:
000185
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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39 The day's routine includes many splashes in the water — which may or may not be called work. day during my stay. Secretary Harry Lee had marked on the application of one of the hundreds of black seekers for work, "Q. K., H. Lee." The following morning, a policeman appeared with the Jamaican in custody. He explained that the boy had been arrested for a minor offense, and bore a letter from the magistrate addressed to "Mr. O. K. H. Lee," in which his honor, Sam Burke, stated that rather than impede the work of the William Fox companies, he would release the boy. Mr. Burke was thanked for his consideration in the name of Director Brenon, but was informed that the company did not desire to employ lawbreakers. The incident showed, however, the high esteem in which the photo-play enterprise is held in Jamaica. As has been the case since the arrival of the companies on the island, Mr. Brenon has been flooded with offers from the military and civil authorities to do everything in their power to aid in making the million-dollar picture ''the greatest that has ever been screened." Sir John Pringle, one of the greatest dignitaries of the island, as one example, has courteously placed his magnificent plantation at the services of the Fox Company, including his entire stable of one hundred blooded stallions, and the hundreds of black employees working on his estate, the largest single holdings in the West Indies. My second day there, the fair and beautiful Annette had the narrowest escape of her life. She was motoring, all alone, to a location when something happened to the steering wheel, and she lost control of it. The car was going at a terrific clip, and she found it impossible to shut off its power. L'tter destruction for Miss Kellermann seemed imminent. Through the roads it tore, and then, to the horror of the powerless driver, she discerned the glistening waters of Kingston harbor beyond. Approaching the edge of a low cliff, and with no hope of stopping her machine, the dauntless Miss Kellermann stood