Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Classic
Date:
Jan-Dec 1916
Author:
M.P. Publishing Company
Volume:
Motion Picture Classic (1916)
Leaf #:
000338
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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MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC if you will promise not to do it again. But, really, if you say I look flirtatious, then I can only reply that it's not my fault. I cant help it. I am just working, w i t h every ounce of energy I have, to please people all the t i m e — that’s all. I like to smile and limitations of the English language.” Miss Teare’s face puckered in the trying to please. When they dont call you flirtatious, they tell you that you have personality — whatever that is. “Speaking of that mysterious thing, personality — it is to that I owe my entrance on a picture career. I was playing in vaudeville, when a Kalem director happened to attend a Los Angeles theater at which I was appearing. Before the close laugh and be gay, and I just cant be dignified, to save my life. If you call that ‘flirtatious/ then make most of it.” “That’s why he called you ‘flirtatious/” I volunteered. “You see, on the screen you just radiate good cheer and whole-hearted jollity, and I imagine that was the nearest he could come to describing it with the woeful the forgetting what I said about flattery. It’s a good thing you are not a mere man. But, I suppose, I am doomed to go thru life under a cloud of adjectives— flirtatious, vivacious, and so on. That is one of the penalties of of the engagement, I received an offer from him to take up Motion Picture ork. He said I had ‘personality’ that ( C.nntinued an have 68) ( Twenty six )