Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Sep 1925 - Feb 1926
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
00028
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 Photo by Hoover A Unique Figure in Pictures An illuminating study of Alice Calhoun, who, though she has been a star for years, and has a huge fan following, is an obscure, almost unknown figure in the Hollywood screen colony. By Myrtle Gebhart IS that Betty Compson, in blue? She's even prettier than on the screen. And there's Nita Naldi. Who could fail to recognize her? I do wish Ramon Novarro would come in — I'm crazy to see him." A girl at a corner table in the Montmartre attracted me. Her simple brown frock faded into the background beside the fashion parade of Hollywood beauty. Her obvious eagerness contrasted with the boredom which is de rigeur in a familiar crowd. Not a tourist — neither voluble nor important enough. The daughter of someLos Angeles business man, I decided. Her face seemed vaguely trying to recall itself to my memory. Her companion turned to me — a girl, not in pictures, whom I knew. "Join us for luncheon," she called. "Know Alice Calhoun ?" Alice Calhoun ! I had seen her a time or two on the screen, and knew that she had made a raft of pictures for Vitagraph; that she had quite a fan following.^ But during her three years in California I had never seen her. And I have met, at least casually, most everybody connected with the West Coast studios, and certainly their prominent people. There is a story, a very interesting story, I think, in her career. It isn't a flowery, pretty story of a personality thrust into the spotlight, publicized, accorded homage and criticized — the lot of most screen actresses who have popular appeal. Nor is it exactly the bitter story of a star dethroned and utterly forgotten. Her career has followed a road about halfway between these two extremes. It has been a fairly even