The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The New Movie Magazine
Date:
Dec 1929-May 1930
Publisher:
Tower Magazines, inc.
Volume:
The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)
Leaf #:
000178
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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Today John Love Boles, the Greenville boy, is one of the foremost talkie stars in popularity. IT seems that Fate or some other unseen hand has always guided John Love's life, regardless of his own plans and his own efforts to divert them to another channel," was the declaration of Mrs. J. M. Boles, mother of John Love Boles, the stage and screen celebrity, as we sat in the living room of the charming and typically Southern' home in Greenville, Texas, where the star lived the greater part of his eventful career. Here the voice that has thrilled so many hearts from the stage and screen was so often lifted in youthful song designed to please only the owner and his mood. Studying John Love Boles' life, one sees the truth of her statement. One after another, his plans have seemed to "gang aft agley," diverting from the planned channel into another, but proving in each instance to be a change for the better. And it has always been in spite of, and not because of, his efforts to pursue the original plans. His one ambition, and the one which he had planned from youth to realize, was to sing in grand opera. He continued singing with that goal in mind. A QUIET boy, he always thought rather than spoke. One i-* gathers that he was an example of the youthful introvert, thinking quite a lot, but not voicing his thoughts. Rev. W. E. 54 HOME TOWN I John Love Boles and his Boyhood Days in Greenville, Texas Graham, whose church John Love joined in 1906, said that he was an extraordinarily loyal and faithful member, always in his place in church, and very, very quiet. It is of interest that he and his father joined the church at the same time. "I don't know where John Love got his P voice," his mother told me. "I always thought John, (John Love's father), could have sung if he had ever given any especial attention to his voice. The Above, John Boles at the age of two months, even then deeply interested in "the squawkies." Right, Boles, in 1 91 8, a member of the 359th Infantry at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas.