Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

1 Qassic PICTORIAL OF SCREEN AND STAGE A UKEWSIER I'UHI.ICA I K)N Vol. XVIII FEBRUARY, 1924 No. 6 Cbvi i; PoBTRAIT — Li] u\\ GlSH Painted by E. Dahl from a photograph by Kenneth Mexander Now That Winter's Here— An editorial 11 Ci issk 's Favorites Music Hath Charms -To sooth the savage cinemese Maude ( heatham . 14 Mme. Olga Petrova, A new camera study of the brilliant Pole 1" The Mutual Admiration Society, Blanche Sweet and Marshall Neilan Harry Cart Odious Comparisons, Between the stage and screen "Scaramouche" 20 The Thing We Cant Escape in the Movies l-.Uloti AY//. The Powers Behind the Screen, The fifth and last instalment Stanton LeeA La Pucelle, Famous 1 leroines No. 5. I '• >la Negri as Joan .it' Vrc Au Sauce Piquante, A picture page Tiger Rose, Told in short-story form Dorothy 1><»ih,: Rhythm and Rebellion, An interview Maude Cheathan When Lubitsch Directs ..." // On Location, Literally all <.\ er the world 4<i Ci \-~-n: Considers — The great and the near great 43 W. Somerset Maugham Is With Us Again />'. / . Wilson 44 The Photographer Takes the Stage, Highlights of the theatrical season 45 The World's Most Famous Nose, Is in "Cyrano de Bergerac," the play of t ho month Kenneth Macgoxvan 48 The Movie of the Month, I s " Vnna Christie" Laurence Reid 4° The Celluloid Critic, Mr. Reid pfoes to the movies 5<i Hollywood Homes, June Mathis' 52 Iris In, Pertinent and impertinent screen chatter //. //'. Hanemann 54 The Immortal Clown, Striking and original photographic studies of Larry Semon 55 Flashes From the Eastern Stars, Of the stage, on the screen ( aught by the Editoi The Yankee Consul, Fictionized by Worman Bruci The Rejected Suitor, An English imitation of a popular American 6.1 Dixit, Richard l)i\ does Dorothy DonucU 64 The Hollywood Boulevardier Chats Harry Carr 66 The Movie Encyclopedia By the Answer Man 70 ription $2.50 per year, in advance, including postage, in the United States, Tuba. Mexico and Philippine Islands. In Canada Foreign Countries $::."(> inr year. Single copies 25 cents postage prepaid. United States Government stamps accepted. Subscribers must notify us at once of any change in address, giving both old and new address. Pi bushed Monthly by Brewster Publications, Inc., at Jamaica, N. Y. Entered at the Post Office at Jamaica, N. Y., as second-class matter, under the act of March 3rd, 1879. Printed in U. S. A. Eugene V. Brewster, President and Editor-in-Chief; Guy L. Harrington. Vice-President and Business Manager; L. G. Conlon, Treasurer; E. M. Heinemann, Secretary. EXECUTIVE and EDITORIAL OFFICES, 175 DUFFIELD ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. Copyright, J924, by Brewster Publications, Inc., in the United States and Great Britain. SUSAN ELIZABETH BRADY, Editor Adele Whitely Fletcher Managing Editor Harry Carr Western Representative A. M. Hopf muller Art Director Duncan A. Dobie Director of Advertising Classic comes out on the 12th of every month. Motion Picture Magazine on the 1st, Bkawty on the 16th Announcement for March Fortunate Misfortunes is the title of an absorbingly interesting story on the lame, the halt, the blind, the grotesque and the abnormal who have made a pil^rima^e to Hollywood, and made a fortune from Hollywood. You have seen all these lucky misfits on the screen. . . . Jim Tulley has written a most beautiful and understanding story on that still unfathomed semis of the screen. Charlie Chaplin. John Decker has illustrated it with a cartoon signed by Charlie himself. . . . Classic, in its dual role of Stage and Screen Pictorial, offers the greatest number and the most beautifully reproduced pictures of any other magazine in its class If it's beautiful, it's in Classic. . . . K 3 (Five)