Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb 1914 - Sep 1916 (assorted issues))

MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 155 EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT WATCH OUT for the MAY NUMBER Another "The Best Yet" Always better, always bigger, always more interesting — that has been our motto for many months, and we do not intend to let our May number be an exception. Here are just a few of the features that will appear in our next: The Final Word on Censorship By JOHN COLLIER, General Secretary of the National Board of Censorship. You have heard from Canon Chase in three issues, and you know he says that the present system of censorship is inadequate and inefficient. You have heard from Mr. Dyer in three able articles in which he practically says that all forms of censorship are dangerous. Perhaps you have made up your minds, but you should not pass final judgment until you have heard from Mr. Collier, who is perhaps the best known and ablest of Motion Picture /writers, in his line, in all the world. Having been shown by Canon Chase why official censorship is necessary and by President Dyer why it is not, it seems very fitting to have a man iike Mr. Collier sit in judgment, as it were, and tell us wherein, in his judgment, the two great debaters are wrong, and wherein they are right. At any rate, we can assure you of a very interesting and important supplement to the Great Debate, from the pen of Secretary Collier. Everybody should read it. It is an able summing up. And then we have a unique, illustrated article by Edwin M. La Roche, on A New Profession for Women Life Stories, Pictures, and the Daily Work of Leading Photoplay Editors. It is not generally known that women are "holding down" the highly responsible position of "Scenario Editor" in many of the ieading studios. In fact, the author of the article to De published in the May issue of the Motion Picture Magazine recently attended a club meeting of photoplay manufacturers and directors, and they themselves did not know how strongly women were entrenched in this new and fascinating field. It is big and important work, requiring endless patience, versatile literary knowledge, "no nerves," dramatic training, a "camera eye" and all sorts of other things. And many women are now doing this unique and responsible work of the scenario editor. The Motion Picture Magazine, thru one of its writers, has secured a story telling all about who these heretofore mysterious women are and just what they are doing. It is highly interesting reading, and we will take great pleasure in offering it to our readers. Old-Time Marine Figureheads By MARY TAYLOR FALT. Do you wonder at such an article in a Motion Picture magazine? Well, al! nations have tried in symbolic ways to endow inanimate objects with life, and figureheads is an example, while Motion Pictures are the evolutionary triumph in that respect. This article is nicely illustrated with rare photos of figureheads, old and new. Among other good things we have in store for you is a series of Extracts from Players' Diaries Did you know that most of the leading players kept diaries? "Well, they do, and we have secured access to some of them, and assure ycu that it will make interesting reading. Then, we have a new puzzle cortest coming, and a good one. Everybody is interested in a puzzle, and it is a pleasure to try to work out one. even the success does not crown your efforts. These are only a few of the items of interest to aopear in the May number, to say nothing of all the fine pictures, stories and usual denartments. Better olace your order now. The edition will probably be 275,000 or 280,000, but that wont begin to satisfy the demand. MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 175 Duffield Street Brooklyn, N. Y. When answering advertisements kindly mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZPVE.