Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

A BREWSTER PUBLICATION ] J Subscription $2.50 per year, in advance, including postage, in the United States, Cuba, Mexico and Philippine Islands. In Canada and Foreign Countries $3.50 per 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. Published 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, 1922, by Brewster Publications, Inc., in the United States and Great Britain. SUSAN ELIZABETH BRADY, Editor ADELE WHITELY FLETCHER, Managing Editor (Five) ■ r The Celluloid Critic Laurence Reid 44 Alice Terry. A new portrait 47 From East and West. The Contest beauties come 48 The Pride of the Century 49 Iris In. Pertinent and impertinent.... D. D. C. 50 Classic Considers — the great and the near great 51 If I Were Queen. A short story Donald Calhoun 52 Lady Jocelyn Leigh 57 Flashes from the Eastern Stars 58 Dashed Hopes 59 The Hollywood Boulevardier Chats Harry Carr 60 Colleen At Home 64 Andree Peyre 66 The Answer Man 70 Viola Dana Wins Classic’s Cover For February 92 Keeping Out of the Movies By Gene 95 Harry Carr Western Representative A. M. Hopfmuller Art Director Duncan A. Dobie Director of Advertising This magazine, published monthly, comes out on the 15th. Its elder sister, the Motion Picture Magazine, comes out on the 1st of every month. Shadowland appears on the 23rd of the month. Beauty is on the stands on the 8th. Vol. X DECEMBER, 1922 No. 4 COVER PORTRAIT— WALLACE REID Page Painted by Harry Roseland from a photograph by Sykes The Blind Alley of the Movies. An editorial 11 Classic’s Gallery of Photoplayers: Carol Dempster, Bebe Daniels, Pierre Gendron, Ramon Novarro, Julia Faye, Patsy Ruth Miller 12 Pre-Griffith Days. With Dick Barthelmess Faith Service 18 Hollywood Homes. Victor Schertzinger 20 Before Kings Fell Theodore Kosloff 22 The Photographer Takes the Stage. Classic’s monthly department of the theater 24 How Women Love. A short story Dorothy Donnell 27 Slumbering Fires. Presenting Norma Talmadge Harry Carr 22 Famous Toscas Jerome Hart 34 Mary, Mother of Men 37 The Forsaken Field, of Hugo Ballin 38 “From Harmony, From Heavenly Harmony”. . . Harry Carr 40 “Over the Wintry Threshold” 42 The Darkest Hour. Of Lillian Gish and Theodore Roberts 43 Little Paragraphs from Qassic for JANUARY □ □ □ "... Wallace Beery, who is playing the role of King Richard in ‘Robin Hood / received a huge box from the costumer and found in it his new regalia — a gorgeous affair of crimson velvet studded with jewels. W ally gleefully tried it on, but could not make it fit . . . In despair he ’ phoned the wardrobe department , to be informed that it was the trappings for King Richard’s horse — not for the king ..." — from “Costuming the Silent Drama” by Maude Cheatham □ □ . . . When you behold Ferdinand Earle’s screen version of old Omar Khayyam’s 'Rubaiyat,’ you will realize that there is something new under the sun. . . . Mr. Earle has perfected a device that makes it possible for a director to shoot any scene he requires — no matter how complicated it may be, or when or where it is laid — without leaving his studio ..." — from “Eastern Magic” by Willard Huntington Wright □ □ “ . . . 'This Italian business is all hokum. I’m a Broadway-and-F ortysecond-Street American. It’s true that some of my ancestors were Italian — but then some of them were Irish! ... I was born on April Fool’s Day, and my horoscope says that I’ll do unexpected and dramatic things. And some day when my directors, who think they’ve got me satisfied with these horrid vamp parts, start looking for me, well . . . ’ ” — from “Will Nita Naldi ‘April Fool’ the Directors ?” by Regina Cannon □ □ □ In The Picture Book De Luxe of the Movie World Qassic for JANUARY