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Do You Know That This Magazine Was the VeryFirst of the Movie Magazines ?
YES, we were really the pioneer in the flood -of all those which have come after, and in February we will celebrate our fourteenth birthday — quite grown up, we feel. So in our anniversary number, February, 1925, we are doing a lot of reminiscing, tellingall sorts of funny things
that happened long ago. Remember way back when to be a movie fan was more or less of a disgrace? When the movies were all trembly, shaky pictures that hurt your eyes to watch, full of custard pies and tumbling and very little else? When, if you were going to them, you sneaked out the side door and didn't tell mother about it ? It was a small and unpretentious little magazine, our first number, that appeared in February, 1911, under title of Motion Picture Story Magazine, illustrated with pictures that dont look much like the stars of today. But those who> helped to get it out will tell you all about it in the next number. It will be interesting !
Is Yours Among Them?
Aren't they rather "^^ clever, the stars as our readers see them? Turn back to page 34 if you've missed the first page of sketches in the drawing contest, which we told you of in October. We received a great many pictures ; our artistjury found it hard to choose among them. We're sorry we couldn't reproduce them all, but there will be another page of them in an early number. So it isn't too late for you to send us your efforts, and, maybe, win a prize. 68 66.
Did You Starlit?
TDecatjse if you did, you're sure to finish it — you cant •*-*. help it. Of course, we refer to our new serial, Whose Hand? that begins in this number, on page 47. The month will seem very long, waiting for the next instalment. Later on, if you have a bright idea, and think you can guess Whose Hand it was, we'll be glad to have you send
us your solution of the
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Does Yours, Too?
"P\oes your mother, too,
-^ tell tales out of school that make you blush and say, "Oh, Mother, dont I" 1 Wont Raymond Hatton just die when he reads how his Mother dragged him home by the ear to hang up his nightie? And wont Mary Pickford howl when she is reminded how she carted the dollar bills home in a sack? Did you ever read anything so cute and funny as Dorothy Donnell Calhoun's Their Mothers Tell on TJiem? It's right here between the covers of this book and if you miss it, you are missing one of the best things Motion Picture ever printed.
Were You Sorry ?
TT7hen the page that used to be Eastern Gossip became merely a picture page with the news told pictorially instead of in the form of a story? Starting with our February number, this department, which thru December and January was merely picture pages, will appear in its old form of text illustrated with pictures. Our readers seem to like it better that way, and, of course, we aim to please. This change comes in deference to those who wrote us that they were disappointed.