Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

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Mary Pickford Heads Contest Several months ago the entire editorial force of our three publications p u t their heads together to devise a popularity contest that would be different. Resuit: Announcement of the greatest of popularity contests. And then came the memorable printers' strike, creating havoc in the magazine world in and about New York City. But, in spite of almost insurmountable obstacles and without regard to cost, we got out our magazines. Pages were necessarily cut, including, in some instances, announcements of the contest ; issues were delayed ; but we got them out. However, our readers were not dismayed. That this contest at once appealed to every lover of the screen and its shadowed players was at "once a p parent. Since the beginning of the (Continued on page 117) Left, top, William S. Hart; center, Norma Talmadge; bottom, Richard Barthelmess Right, top, Mary Pickford; center, Wallace Reid; bottom, Alia Nazimova L— iAG£ _£.