The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Page scan 000580 from The New Movie Magazine

Record Details:

Title:
The New Movie Magazine
Date:
Jan-Sep 1935
Publisher:
Tower Magazines, inc.
Volume:
The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)
Leaf #:
000580
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Relatively short-lived magazine that nonetheless played a crucial role in the gossip industry. Launched in 1929, it cost only ten cents, when the majority of high-end magazines sold for a quarter. It was also primarily sold through Woolworth’s five and dime stores; the combination of cost and accessibility led to its dominance, by 1933, over all other magazines (circulation: 650,000). As a result, the other magazines decreased their price to match New Movie’s. New Movie had less content and poorer quality drawings and illustrations, but the content similar in tone and quality to that of the high end magazines. Ceased publication in 1935. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
June 06, 2024
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IT'S not just a whim — it's the truth! I've wanted to be the first lady Governor of Alabama ever since I can remember. That's why I studied law and have made every possible preparation for admission to the bar in my home state. That's really why I've done everything I ever have done in my life. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I've decided on everything in the ight of how it would affect a possible future career in politics. I'm not quite sure, but I believe I was about six when I first saw a lady's picture in the paper under that time-worn heading of "The First Lady." It made a very deep impression on me even then. My father asked me what I wanted to be first lady of and my answer was, quite naturally, Alabama. Alabama was the biggest thing I could think of — and it still looms pretty big in my mind. When I got here, I was met by a very nonchalant and sophisticated press agent who had handled a lot of contest winners, but had never had an experience with one whose entrance in and winning of the contest was entirely accidental. He started right in asking me a lot of extremely personal questions — all the way from breakfast-food preference to the status of my heart. I did my best to squelch him without being offensive, but, I found out later, he just thought I was being high-hat. "What," he asked me, "do you intend to do now that you're out here, Miss Patrick?" "Go back in six weeks, when my return trip ticket expires." "Well, why, I mean, why did you come out here at all if you don't want to go into pictures?" "I just felt like a vacation and I got a free one so I came for the trip." I could see that he didn't believe me. He very obviously thought that this was just another carefully hatched bid for publicity — an act. "Is that so? Well, what is your great ambition? The legitimate stage, I suppose?" Frankly, I could have kicked him in the shins. He was almost sneering at me! "No. I've never even considered acting. I intend to enter the practice of law and go into politics." "Yeah?" (Please turn to page 51) By GAIL PATRICK DECORATION BY ELY GINSBURG 'e 32 The New Movie Magazine, August, 1935