Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1924)

Rules for the Great Cash'Radio Contest THE great $5,000 cash ladio contest is now on. It is even bigger and better than announced in June Photopi. \y. Four of the latest and best De Forest Reflex Radiophone Receiving Sets, instead of three, will be given as prizes for sub-titles to the installments. That means there will be four installments of Arthur Stringer's absorbing radio romance — the greatest story printed by any magazine this year. Love, adventure, thrills and intrigue combine to make it the most interesting and thrilling of summer reading to l:e found in any publication. The first installment is printed in this issue of Photoplay. Irvin V. Willat, one of the nation's greatest directors, is filming the story for Famous Players Lasky Corporation with a notable cast headed by Antonio Moreno and Agnes Ayres. The picture will be ready for release early this fall and promises to be the sensation of the film world. The De Forest Company has perfected a new radio receiving months, the company's engineers The Prizes Here are the prizes for Photoplay Magazine Radio Contest. First Priz,e .... $2,500.00 Second Prise . . . 1,000.00 Third Prize .... 500.00 Five $100 prizes, five $50 prizes and ten $25 prizes — all cash. Four De Forest Reflex Radiophone Receiving Sets, complete with batteries and loud speaker set. and For elec trical wizards have been at work perfecting this instrument. The designers claim it is the greatest thing yet done in radio. It will not only be the most beautiful and artistic set manufactured but will be clearer and carry further than any ever made by this company, thej' say. Four of these wonderful sets, complete with batteries and loud speakers will be given away for the best sub-titles submitted for the four in-tallments of the story. Read the first installment. It may suggest a title and sub-title to you. Send them in with your reason for considering them best suited to the story and installment and expressed in 100 words or less. You may use the coupon on this page for this purpose, although its use is not compulsory. Read the rules governing the contest. Then send in your suggestions as early as possible. Send as many as you want, but send them one at a time. They may win you a big cash prize and one of the wonderful radio sets. Conditions of Contest PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE wants a title for -* a story written by Arthur Stringer, which starts in this issue of Photoplay Magazine. It will be known as "The Story Without A Name" in Photoplay Magazine Radio Contest. Suggestions are invited for a title and $5,000 in cash and four radio receiving sets will be given away under the following rules: 1. Any person, except an employee of Photoplay Magazine or Famous PlayersLasky Corporation, or members of their families, may enter the contest. By submitting a suggestion a person becomes a contestant and as such agrees to abide by these rules. 2. To the person submitting the best title for the story and best sub-titles for the installments of the story, together with his, or her, reason why such titles and sub-titles are best suited to the story and installments, and expressed in 100 words or less, Photoplay Magazine will give $2,500 in cash. The CUT OUT THIS COUPON This coupon may be used to submit suggestions in Photoplay Magazine Radio Contest for which $5,000 in cash and four De Forest Reflex Radiophone Receiving Sets will be given away. Read the conditions carefully and then send all suggestions to Photoplay Magazine, Radio Contest Editor, 221 West 57th Street, New York City. Title for Story Sub-Title for July Installment .Xani e of Contestant Street Number City _ Slate Reason for selecting title and sub-title $1 second prize will be $1,000; the third $500; $100 will be given to each of five persons submitting the next five best titles and sub-titles; $50 will be given to each of the five persons submitting the ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth best titles and subtitles, and $25 will be given to each of the ten persons submitting the next best ten titles and sub-titles. 3. To each of the persons submitting the best sub-titles for the installments of the story, Photoplay Magazine will give a De Forest Reflex Radiophone Receiving Set complete with batteries and loud speaker. 4.. Cleverness of ideas, accuracy, conciseness, originality and neatness will be considered in the awards for the titles and subtitles. No title will be considered that duplicates or conflicts with the title of any copyrighted story or photoplay. 5. Contestants may submit as many suggestions as they desire. They are urged to send them as early as possible to facilitate work of the judges. The name and address of the contestant must be on each suggestion submitted. 6. For the convenience of contestants a coupon will be printed in each issue of the Magazine during the contest, and may be used to submit suggestions. Although use of this coupon is not compulsory, contestants must submit suggestions on paper that conforms to the coupon in size and shape. 7. The judges of the contest will be James R. Quirk, editor of Photoplay Magazine, and Jesse Lasky of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. In selecting titles and subtitles for cash awards, the judges will be at liberty to disregard sub-titles for which radio sets have been awarded. Their judgment in all awards will be final. 8. If more than one person submits the same titles and sub-titles for the story and installments which win cash prizes, and gives reasons for selecting them in an equally clever, accurate, concise, original and neat manner, a duplicate prize will be given to each such person. If more than one person submits the same sub-titles for which radio sets are awarded, in an equally clever, accurate, concise, original and neat manner, a duplicate radio set will be given to each such person. 9. All awards will be announced in December Photoplay. 10. Photoplay Magazine reserves the right to use the titles submitted as it sees fit. If a suggestion offered as a sub-title is better, in the opinion of the judges, than any title submitted for the story, the judges are at liberty to use it as a title for the story and award the person who submitted it the first cash prize. n. All suggestions submitted become the exclusive property of Photoplay Macazine. 12. Photoplay Magazine reserves the exclusive right to revise or alter these rules at any time. 13. The contest will close at midnight, October 15, 1924, and no suggestions received after that hour will be considered. 14. All suggestions must be mailed to Radio Contest Editor, Photoplay Magazine, 221 West 57th Street, New York City.