Photoplay (Sep - Dec 1918)

REG. U. S PAT. OFF. THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE "The National Movie Publication" Copyright, 1918. by the Photoplay Publishing Company1 Chicago VOL. XIV Contents No. SEPTEMBER, 1918 Cover Design — Lila Lee From the Pastel Portrait by W. Haskell Coffin Art Section Portraits: Marjorie Rambeau, Norma Talmadge, Ben Alexander and mother, Martha Mansfield, Fred Stone, Marie Provost, Geraldine Farrar, Lou Tellegen, Wallace McDonald, John Bowers, Irving Cummings, Eugene O'Brien, and Lois Meredith After the Deluge Editorial The Myriad Moods of War (Pictures) A Variety of Snapshots from Overseas. Have a Heart Julian Johnson Appealing for Tolerance from Motion Picture Patrons. The Service Star (Fiction) Dorothy Scott Retold from the Patriotic Photoplay. A Merry Hamlet Alison Smith Conway Tearle, the Melancholy, is Really a Cheerful Soul. The Property Room (Poem) Charles McMurdy And the Treasures Stored Therein. Stifling the Tears Mary Warren Just Emoted in Her Own Little Way. Odds and Ends (Pictures) Just That. The Lady? No, the Car! Alison Smith Hugh Thompson Would Rather Talk Autos Than Leading Ladies. Propaganda! Louella 0. Parsons The Parj.the Screen is Playing in the Great War. (Contents continued on next page) . 27 28 30 33 37 38 39 40 42 43 Published monthly by the Photoplay Publishing Co., 350 N. Clark St., Chicago, 111. E. M. Colvin, Pres.; James R. Quirk, Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr.; R. M. Eastman, Sec.-Treas. Julian Johnson, Editor. W. M. Hart, Adv. Mgr. Yearly Subscription: $2.00 in the United States, its dependencies, Mexico and Cuba; $2.50 Canada; $3.00 to foreign countries. Remittances should be made by check, or postal or express money order. Caution — Do not subscribe through persons unknown to you. Entered at the Postoflice at Chicago, 111. , as Set ond-class mail mattei Next Month Without referring to Messrs. Zukor, Lasky et al., we promise that next month's will be a paramount issue of Photoplay Magazine. It will be full of the most timely special articles, it will be vivid as an autumn forest with its array of unusual illustrations, it will be surcharged with personality material, it will give all the news of the whole field of motion pictures, and it will, especially, follow in its own field the widely divergent courses of America's manifold energies in the prosecution of our great war for the freedom of the world. This periodical feels that it is not only a duty, but a great honor and privilege to do this, in every way that is within its special powers. What About Screen Comedy? Do you realize that comedy is the one branch of optic entertainment which is almost virgin soil? Are we to have "situation" comedies as such comedy is found in plays and 'books — or must we forever depend upon oddities, antics and pretty girls who Hooverize 'their clothes? An intensely interesting story by a man who knows more about screen comedy from the side-lines than any other living individual — Harry C. Carr. The Dominant Race What land has contributed more screen players, and writers, than any other on the face of the globe? It's almost a monopoly, and it's a singular fact for which there seems to be no accounting. In October, the story — and the proofs. Is There a Dishonor Roll? What have we done in the War? Are we carrying our burden as we should ? It has been charged that the stage is one hundred percent patriotic, while the screen is not. A serious story that faces facts squarely.