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 #:
000622
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:
September 21, 2023
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How Hollywood Entertains Lillian Roth entertains the Famous Film Starlets at a Buffet Luncheon By EVELYN GRAY ONE of the most popular and easiest ways to en Almost any Tuesday, if you stroll into the Blossom tertain for the younger girls of the film colony Room of Hollywood's famous hotel on Holly Boulevard, who do not keep up big establishments is with you will find several of the tables occupied by a group a buffet luncheon at the Roosevelt Hotel on Tuesdays. of starlets and leading ladies, but unless you knew them you'd have a hard time distinguishing them from a group of Junior Leaguers. Lillian Roth was one of the hostesses there on a recent Tuesday and had as her guests Jean Arthur, Myrna Kennedy, Ann Roth, Helen Chandler, Nancy Carroll, Ruth Gilbert, Mary Brian, Virginia Bruce, Jeanette MacDonald. Lola Lane and Kay Francis. Like most of our popular young screen players, Lillian is a very busy girl and daytime entertaining in Hollywood is fairly rare, because everyone is apt to be working. But Lillian had a most successful party and it was so easy to arrange that she swears she'll never play society anv other way. "All you do," said Lillian, "is go to Chef Ehlers, tell him exactly what you want, then speak to the headwaiter about a centerpiece for your table, and you're all set." On Tuesdays the Roosevelt serves a special buffet luncheon, Lillian Roth consulted the Roosevelt Hotel chef, Ulrich Ehlers, about her luncheon. And she managed to obtain from him the secret of the famous Roosevelt Hotel meat balls, given elsewhere in this story.