Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1925)

(MfWW^ Advertising Section ARGOSY-ALLSTORY America's Greatest All-Fiction Weekly A magazine of clean fiction planned to please and entertain the whole family — each issue contains one hundred and sixty pages of the best selection of mystery, romance, love, adventure and humor produced Many of the stories first published in ArgosyAllstor-y Weekly later became successful plays — popular photoplays featuring such stars as Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas Meighan, Viola Dana, Corinne Griffith, George Arliss, William Farnum, Tom Mix, John Gilbert and others. Over one hundred and ninety of these serials have been published in book form selling at from $1.50 to $2.00 a copy. Below are the more recent listings in these several fields from stories which first appeared in Argosy-Allstory . Popular Plays The Bat The Nervous Wreck The Crimson Alibi White Collars A Full House Photoplays Wolves of the North The Beloved Brute The Confidence Man Out of the Silent North The Mark of Zorro Madness of Youth A Noise in Newboro Brass Commandments Books The Three Host\ges, by John Buchan The Way of the Buffalo, by Charles Alden Seltzer The Locked Book, by Frank L. Packard Hopalong Cassidy Returns, by Clarence E. Mulford The Whisper on the Stair, by Lyon Mearson The Mystery of the Opal, by Rupert Sargent Holland Tarzan and the Ant Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Passing of Charles Lanson, by Louis Tracy Pawned, by Frank L. Packard The Four Stragglers, by Frank L. Packard The Doom Dealer, by David Fox Big Game, by Louis Lacy Stevenson Be up to the minute on the recent hits of the stage, features of the silver screen and the most popular books of to-day — read the stories when they first appear in the ARGOSYALLSTORY and be able to discuss them when they become popular. 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''Do you call him a good singer?" he asked the man beside him. The native stared. "Of course not !" he replied, "but he ivas." "But Americans have to have something new all the time." Harold sighed a sincere sigh. "New gags on universal experiences— that's our problem. Thrills were a comedy novelty when I made Safety Last, but I dont use them now. The fans have got so hard-boiled that, instead of laughing and gasping when the hero of the picture stubs his toe on the edge of a sky-scraper roof, they have to explain to their neighbor that Lloyd really isn't in the slightest danger — they know how that trick is done. "In order to get a sure-fire laugh over a comedy hero's difficulties and dangers." he explains,' "you have to establish an affection for the character first so that the audience will care what happens to him. He has to be a real person to win real laughter. The timid youth of Grandma's Boy, the neurasthenic of Why Worry, the stutterer of Girl Shy are not lay figures, but You and Me. And what they do must be possible — tho not necessarily probable. That's why everyone shrieks and clutches everyone else's arm when they start to roll off awnings, or are chased by tramps with hands like hams. "The best gag in the world will fall flat if it isn't plausible." Harold waves his arms emphatically and you see that his handsome dress suit is merely basted together, ready to be pulled to pieces in the next scene. "Take the picture I'm working on right now ; the hero is a shortsighted college freshman who reports for football practice wearing leather helmet, nose-guard and horn-rimmed spectacles. Since we've worked up that gag we have had reports from several universities of football players who actually do wear their glasses while playing — of course, with all 104 Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.