Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC THE MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC and THE MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE’S Fame and Fortune Contest IS NOW OPEN The Motion Picture Classic and The Motion Picture Magazine have inaugurated many contests during the past, but it can safely be said that no contest in the history of the two popular magazines ever started with the tremendous wave of interest which has preceded the launching of The Fame and Fortune Contest. The very first announcement brought hundreds of letters, inquiries and favorable comments. These have been steadily mounting in numbers. The opening of the contest on December 1st was marked by an avalanche of pictures. The Motion Picture Classic and The Motion Picture Magazine will make an internationally famous screen player of the winner of The Fame and F'ortune Contest. The two magazines will give two years’ guaranteed publicity to the winner. This will include cover portraits in colors, special interviews, pictures, special articles, etc. — the sort of publicity that could not be purchased at any price. The Motion Picture Classic and The Motion Picture Magazine will secure an initial position for the winner and other opportunities, if necessary. At the end of two years The Motiop Picture Classic and The Motion Picture Magazine guarantee that the winner will be known thruout the civilized world. THE FAME AND FORTUNE CONTEST OPENS The judges are now going thru the portraits received. Every fifteen days the jury will pass upon the contestants’ photographs, selecting the six best portraits submitted during that period. These honor pictures will be published in subsequent numbers of The Motion Picture Classic and The Motion Picture Magazine, and an announcement will shortly be made of the first installment of honor pictures selected. The duration of the contest will be announced later. Upon the closing of the contest the winner will be selected. It is possible that three or four leaders may be chosen and invited to come to New York for test motion pictures, after which the final winner will be decided upon. JURY OF INTERNATIONAL NOTE The Fame and Fortune jury of judges includes: DAVID GRIFFITH Commodore J. STUART BLACKTON THOMAS INCE JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG CECIL DE MTLLE HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY MAURICE TOURNEUR EUGENE V. BREWSTER TERMS OF THE CONTEST 1. Open to any young woman in the world, except those who have already played prominent screen or stage roles. 2. Contestants must submit a portrait, upon the back of which must be pasted a coupon from either The Motion Picture Classic or The Motion Picture Magazine, or a similar coupon of your own making. 3. Contestants can submit any number of portraits, but upon the back of each must be pasted an entrance coupon. CLASSIC ENTRANCE COUPON Contestant No (Not to be filled in by contestant) Name . Address (street) r (city ) , (state) Previous stage or screen experience in detail, if any. When born Birthplace... Eyes (color) Hair (color). Height Weight Complexion Behind the Screen {Continued from page 5) Anita King, well known on the screen, was injured, on October 17th, near Michigan City, Ind., when her car was struck by a train. She was engaged in aiding the Liberty Loan drive and was on her way to make an address. Completing the late Jacques Futrelle’s “My Lady’s Garter’’ at his Fort Lee studios, Maurice Tourneur is departing for the coast to make three or four productions during the winter. William Randolph Hearst has purchased the Universal Animated Weekly, Universal Current Events and Mutual’s Screen Telegram, merging them with Hearst’s Weekly under the title of Hearst International News. On December 24th the Hearst-Pathe Weekly ceased to be, Pathe now issuing its own news weekly. Edith Storey has left Metro. Denial is made that Cecil De Mille is leaving the Lasky organization. Rumor had it that he was going into the army air service. “Daddy Long Legs,” the Jean Webster story, and “Pollyanna,” both successful on the stage, have been purchased by Mrs. Charlotte Pickford for Mary’s use. The price for both stories is said to be $80,000. Harold Lockwood, the Metro star, died of the influenza at the Hotel Woodward on October 19th. He had been ill only ten days, having just started the production of “The Yellow Dove.” It is believed that Mr. Lockwood contracted the fatal disease at the Madison Square Garden, where he had been engaged in Liberty Loan work at the Motion Picture Exposition. Anita Stewart has completed her first Louis B. Mayer production, “Virtuous Wives,” adapted from Owen Johnson’s story. Conway Tearle, Mrs. De Wolf Hopper and Edwin Arden are in the cast. George Loan Tucker directed. “In Old Virginia” will be Miss Stewart’s second. All Goldwyn productions are now being made on the coast. Tom Moore and Mae Marsh are at work in California. The Rex Beach pictures will be filmed on the coast. 'Geraldine Farrar will not go West until after the close of the opera season in April. Pauline Frederick and Madge Kennedy are about to start West. John H. Collins, husband of Viola Dana and her director for a long time, died at the Hotel Marie Antoinette on October 23d of pneumonia, following a week’s attack of influenza. The influenza also claimed Julian L’Estrange as a victim. Mr. L’Estrange died on October 22d in New York. He was well known on both stage and screen, appearing up to the time of his fatal illness in the stage production of “The Ideal Husband.” Billie Rhodes has been Manhattaning. Doris Kenyon is following “Wild Honey” with “Twilight.” Both are adaptations of stories by Vingie E. Roe. “Twilight” appeared in the Metropolitan as “The Alchemy of Love.” Miss Kenyon is using the Biograph studios in New York for production work. Eugene Walter, the playwright, has contracted to write three original screen stories for Norma Talmadge. William Fox has added James Kirkwood, Charles J. Brabin, Edward Dillon and Arvid E. Gillstrom to his staff of directors, making a total of fourteen. Kirkwood has just finished Evelyn Nesbit’s “I Want to Forget.” (Eight)