Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

Vol. IX FEBRUARY, 1920 No. 6 18 THE GIRL ON THE COVER (Painted by Leo Sielke, Jr., from a photograph by Ned Van Buren.) Just now Doris Kenyon is dividing her time between the foothghts and the film studios. She is playing on Broadway in the highly successful farce, "The Girl in the Limousine." A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Miss Kenyon has lived in Brooklyn and Syracuse. She is a graduate of Packer Institute, Brooklyn, and of Columbia Universit}'. Miss Kenyon went on the stage in "Princess Pat" and was quickly discovered by the cinema, doing her first important role with Alice Brady in World's "The Rack." She has forged rapidly to the front and is now one screenland's favorites. Photogravure Gallery of Players. Full page studies of Pace Corinne Griffith, Wanda Hawley, Helene Chr.dwick, Gladys George and Helen Broneau 11-15 The Silken Gloria. A picturesque chat with the lu.xuri ous Miss Swanson Frederick James Smith lf> Lewis Cody, H. V. The male vampire of the screen tells his philosophy of life Elizabeth Peltret Betty Blythe: The Peacock Princess. A picturesque interview with a picturesque player Maude S. Cheatham Moore o' County Meade. A humorous visit to Tom of the illustrious Moore family Harriette Underbill The Boy Who Capitalized His Freckles. Otherwise Wesley Barry, youngest star of the films Mary Keene The Orchid Blooms. Naomi Childers, goddess of the photoplay, speaks of the old days Truman B. Handy The Varied LioneL The Barrymore of "The Copperhead" and "The Jest" She Loves and Lies. Short story based upon Norma Talmadge's latest photoplay Dorothy Doimell Idealist and Artist. Maurice Tourneur talks of the photoplay and its ideals Maude S. Cheatham The Kodak Girl. Edith Johnston is now one of the favorites of the screen serial Fritzi Remont ofi Understudying Mary. How a young woman was discovered who looked exactly like "Little Mary" Charles G. Rich Si The Broken Melody. Eugene O'Brien's latest film vehicle told in interesting fiction form Olive Carew Theodore Roberts. The silversheet's vividest character actor and his pets Einina-Liitdsay Squicr Among the Footlight Favorites. Glimpses of the new stage plays and pla\'ers 4^i The Celluloid Critic. The newest photoplays in review. . Frederick James Smith 48 The Daring O'Dare 50 On With the Dance. Short story based upon Mae Murray's new photoplay Faith Service 51 Jack's Leading Woman 56 Look for the Last Minute Features in the Advertising Section. Subscription. $2.50 a year, in advance, including postage in the U. S., Cuba, Mexico, and Philippines: in Canada, $3.00 a year; in foreign countries, $3.50. Single copies, 25 cents, postage prepaid. One and two-cent stamps accepted. Subscribers must notify us at once of any change of address, giving both old and new address. Entered at the Brooklyn, N. Y., Post Office as Second-class Matter, Copyright. 1919, by the M, P. Publishing Co.. in the United States and Great Britain, a New York corporation, with its principal offices at Bayshore. N. Y. Eugene V. Brewster, President: J. Stuart Blackton. Vice-President; Guy L. Harrington, Vice-President; E. M. Heinemann, Secretary ; Eleanor V. V. Brewster, Treasurer. .STAFF FOR THE CLASSIC: Eugene V. Brewster. Editor Frederick James Smith, Managing Bditor Dorothy Donnell, Robert J. Shores, Fritzi Remont Associate Editors Guy L. Harrington Business Manager Duncan A. Dobie, Jr Director of Advertising Ruf us French, Inc Eastern Manager Archer A. King. Inc Western Manager 2» 29 34 39 44 A Wife Too Many Into the hotel lobby walked a beautiful woman and a distinguished man. Little indeed did the gay and gallant crowd know that around these heads there flew stories of terror — -of murder — -and treason — that on their entrance half a dozen detectives sprang up from different parts of the place. 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