Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Classic
Date:
May 1921 - Dec 1927
Author:
Brewster Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Motion Picture Classic (1921-1927)
Leaf #:
000453
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
First issue in 1915; absorbed Shadowland in November 1923; became Movie Classic in September 1931. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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Classic Considers IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI In recognition of the fact that he has reached the height of alliterative ambition by being pianist, patriot, prime minister, and now most probably President of Poland. The great musician has evidently minded his p’s if not his q’s A S. M. HUTCHINSON If only for the reason that he has shown that it is possible to write a “best seller” without descending to cheapness of banality. “If Winter Comes,” which has far from exhausted its success as a novel, has been dramatized with good results, and is about to be picturized. His last work, “This Freedom,” is also settling down into an obstinate success Photograph by Elliott E. Fry, London Photograph by lirown Brothers MISS MAUDE ADAMS For the best of reasons that she remains the best loved of America’s many gracious and exquisite actresses, and also because, while she takes a real and practical interest in motion pictures, she herself has been able to resist the lure of the silver screen. Nevertheless, it is to be regretted that posterity will not be able to visualize her by this medium in some of her impersonations, notably Peter Pan MRS EDITH WHARTON Because she is the outstanding figure among women writers in America. Her last two novels, “The Age of Innocence” and "The Glimpses of the Moon,” have an objective interest not inferior to that of Flaubert’s in “Madame Bovary,” or of John Galsworthy’s in his chronicles of the Forsyte family ( t’i)iy-onej