Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

The wedding scene in the Richard Barthelmess picture, Classmates, with Madge Evans as the bride THIS NUMBER CONTAINS: Portraits and Picture Pages Viola Dana — A painting by Albert Vargqs, from a photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser Cover Our Portrait Gallery — New studies of Pauline Frederick, Mabel Ballin, Jean Paige, Eugene O'Brien, Elsie Ferguson, Blanche Mehaffy, Betty Bronson, Pierre Gendron ajid Bessie Love n-19 Pola Negri — Who posed especially for you in her own home 23 Ramon in Rome — Two snaps of Ramon Novarro, taken in Italy 26 Offering a Few Lessons in the Art of Make-Up — Scenes from feature productions, recently released 30-31 Their "Other Self" Comes Out in a New Role — Favorites of long standing, in new characterizations. . . . 38-39 Movies That You Never See — A page of humorous sketches by Eldon Kelley 42 Two Woodsmen — Eleanor Boardman and "Peter the Great." in a scene from The Silent Accuser 46 Reeling With Laughter — Amusing scenes from current comedies and other feature productions 5°~5l "A Miss Is as Good as Her Smile" — Studies of Norma and Constance Talmadge 54 Pipe Dreamers You've Dreamed About — Five motion picture actors, with their pipes 59 Daughters of Eve — Carmel Myers, Baby Peggy, and Betty Compson eating apples 62 News and Views of Eastern Stars— A pictorial department of motion picture activities on the Eastern Coast 64-65 Feature Articles The Star That Refused to Twinkle — Why Viola Dana snaps her fingers at contracts by Harry Can 20-22 My Two Years in America — A famous foreign director talks about our country by Ernst Lubitsch 24-25 The Story of My Life — In which you will learn surprising things by Corinne Griffith 27-29 Just Exactly What You Are Up Against — An anonymous story of how a famous star succeeded in breaking into the movies 32-33 How Cecil De Mille Picks 'EmDescribing his famous test for stars, and how Vera Reynolds passed it by H. D. Cardon 43 What I Can Read in the Faces of the Film Stars — An analysis of Gloria Swanson, Anita Stewart, Bert Lytell and Ben Lyon by F. Vance De Revere 44-45 A Tune for a Tear — Part II, in which the directors present their side of the question by Doris Denbo 52-53 Just Bill Farnum — An appreciation of this long-popular movie hero by Harry Can 114 For Light Entertainment A Sainted Devil — A dramatic fictionization of Rudolph Valentino's latest picture by Geo. B. Jenkins, Jr. 34-37 Confidences Off-Screen — Amusing incidents and anecdotes by W. Adolphe Roberts 40-41 The Girl Who Couldn't Be Bad — The concluding chapter of our serial by Henry Albert Phillips 47-49 That's Out — Keen comment about the people and affairs of Movieland by Tamar Lane 55 Why Did They Doll Up Dempsey? — Why make a sheik out of a "regular guy"? by Walter Haviland 58 Movies in Our Foreign United States by Katherine Merriam 84 Departments Pshaw, Mf. Shaw! — Editorial comment on George Bernard Shaw's recent article in Harper's Magazine 5 The Winners of the Month — Reviewing the Best Modern Drama, the Best Comedy, the Best Melodrama, the Best Costume Picture by Laurence Reid 56-57 On the Camera Coast — News about stars and studios on the Pacific Coast by Harry Carr 60-61 We're Asking You — A question-box for our readers Conducted by the Editorial Staff 63 Critical Paragraphs About New Productions — Pictures recently released, reviewed. . .by the Editorial Staff 66-67 Letters to the Editor — A page containing letters from our readers or excerpts from the letters 68 The Answer Man— Brief replies to readers who have asked for information about the stars and studios 72 What the Stars Are Doing — An alphabetical list of the stars and their present occupation Conducted by Gertrude Driscoll 76 9 PAG i