Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

CLASSIC ' VOL. II. JUNE, 1916 NO. 4 CONTENTS FOR JUNE Page High Lights and Shadows .... H. J. Krier 4 Art Gallery of Popular Players 5 The Huntress Norman Bruce 13 The Effect Motion Pictures Have on Heathens Ernest A. Dench 17 April. A Film Story. .. .Dorothy Donnell 19 Ethel Teare — And That Flirtatious Way, Cecilia Mount 25 Favorite Recipes of Favorite Players, Lillian May 27 The Dresden Doll of the Movies, Lillian Walker 29 Turning Timid Hearts Into Bold Ones, Peter Wade 30 You’ve reached your limit. You can’t expect to step into a job that pays a big salary until you’ve prepared yourself for it. Adam and Eve Harvey Peake 32 The Moment Before Gladys Hall 33 Making Up for the Movies, J. W. Chamberlain 39 The Most Beautiful “Good Woman” in the Movies (Anita Stewart) .. Tom Bret 43 Tears as a Screen Asset, Elizabeth Petersen 46 Dorothy Gish as Joan of Arc 49 A Champion Heroine of Movie Perils 50 When Sparrows Muss Up Motion Picture Scenes Ernest A. Dench 53 The Edwin Booth of the Screen, Henry Walthall Richard Willis 55 Answers to Inquiries. .. .The Answer Man 57 Greenroom Jottings 65 The Spoken Drama Robert Grau 70 Copyright, 1916, by the M. P. Publishing Co., in the United States and Great Britain Entered at the Brooklyn, N. Y., Post Office as second-class matter Published monthly by the M. P. PUBLISHING COMPANY, a New York Corporation, at 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. J. STUART BLACKTON, President; E. V. Brewster, Sec.-Treas. Subscription, $1-75 a year, in advance, including postage in the U. S., Cuba, Mexico, and Philippines; in Canada, $2; in foreign countries, $2.50. Single copies, 15 cents, postage prepaid. One-cent stamps accepted. Subscribers must notify us at once of any change of address, giving both old and new address. STAFF FOR THE CLASSIC: Eugene V. Brewster, Managing Editor. Edwin M. La Roche, Gladys Hall, Robert J. Shores, Dorothy Donnell, E. M. Heinemann, Associate Editors Guy L. 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