Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

122 MOTION PIC TUBE MAGAZINE of the Edison players ; James Cruze, of the Thanhouser Company, and Arthur Johnson, of the Lubin Company, would not now have received the fund of appreciation from the public that their record of votes shows. The October number of the Motion Picture Magazine, appearing on sale September 15th, will contain a full announcement of the votes recorded, the photographs of the winning players, and all sorts of interesting write-ups commemorating the contest. We desire to thank our readers and the countless audience of picture playgoers for the interest and support that they have given this contest, for their critical appreciation, and for the incalculable benefit that it will be to the industry at large. The account of the balloting on page 123 is down to noon of July 15th and must not be taken as final, because tens of thousands of votes still remain uncounted, and doubtless an equal number will continue to pour in during the closing days of the contest, The last ballot must be at this office by noon, August 20th. One-Hundred-Dollar Prize Photoplay By arrangement with the leading manufacturers, the Motion Picture Magazine has decided to inaugurate a photoplay contest which will commence in the October number, or as soon as the winners of the Great Artist Contest are announced. Each photoplay or synopsis submitted will be carefully read and passed upon by the magazine's staff. After a selection of fifty photoplays have been made that are deemed worthy of and suitable to the winners of the Great Artist Contest, they will be sent to the various studios, and, in consultation with the editors of these companies, the final selection of the one best photoplay will be made. In other words, fifty selected plays will be submitted to each of the leading companies. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN GOLD is the prize for the best play featuring the winners of the Great Artist Contest, and there will probably be fifteen or more other prizes for photoplays to be paid for and accepted at their regular rates by the studios whose artists win places in the Great Artist Contest. These photoplays will be known as "Prize Plays of the Great Artist Contest," and their authors will receive recognition on the screen, in the Motion Picture Magazine, in the trade papers, newspapers and theatrical reviews. The unused photoplays will be returned to the competitors imme diately after the announcement of the prize-winners, and the contestants may submit them to the studios for purchase direct, or may send them to the Photoplay Clearing House, who will act as their agent in the disposing of their product. The Motion Picture Magazine announces that Edwin M. LaRoche, associate editor of the magazine and editor of the Photoplay Clearing House, will act as chief judge of the prize photoplay contest. Mr. LaRoche is widely known in the literary world and among the studios as a brilliant writer and a fair and able judge of photoplays. In conjunction with Maurice Costello and John Bunny, he recently acted as judge of the Yita.gr sophEvening Sun Contest, in which four thousand scripts were handled, and, after the judges had reviewed them, many of them were purchased by the Vitagraph Company. The rules have been made as simple as possible, and are published herewith : (1) Photoplays trslj be submitted in detailed synopsis form or as complete photoplays, containing synopsis, cast and action. Only one and two-reel photoplays are desired. Each contestant may submit not more than two photoplays, and no employees of the Motion Picture Magazine or any Motion Picture company may compete. (2) Photoplays should feature two predominant principals : a lead