Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1919 - Feb 1920)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Sep 1919 - Feb 1920
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000447
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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Me, and the Likes of Me iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii By C. J. Duprez World Film Photographer IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU VTOU folks who read Picture1 Play Magazine, did you ever stop and give a thought to where all the photographs that are printed in the magazine each month come from? Well, it's me and the likes of me, around in the different studios, that's responsible for 'em, and it's about time we got a little credit. My job is just to stick around and take pictures of the stars that'll be new and different. Sounds easy, doesn't it? I wish you could just try it once! I get out to the studio with a couple of dandy ideas I've figured out on the way to work. Then I load up my camera and go on a still hunt for a couple of victims. After a while I find 'em, having a nice little visit. Will they pose for a picture? Oh, sure! Tickled to death, only — let's wait a little — some one's just telling a story. Well, I wait — on one foot first, and then on the other. I go away, and come back again. Pose? Oh, yes, to be sure. But let's do it to-morrow. Well, right there's where I have to use rough tactics, which end by getting a couple of 'em cornered. Then they give up, and I shoot my idea. This one, you see, is "The Eternal Triangle," which is made up of the female star, the male star, and the director. In other words, Miss June Elvidge, Mr. Earl Metcalfe, and Mr. Frank Reicher. Get the idea? The funny part of this is that the stars know how necessary it is for them to keep before the public, and that the ones who kick the hardest on posing complain the loudest when their pictures don't appear in the papers and magazines. P. S. — As a matter of fact, the folks in our studio are real accommodating, and I don't have half so much trouble as I let on. But — all the same — it's some job, if I do say so !