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July, 1916
Vol. X, No. 2
YOUTH
AFTER eleven pages of young beauty, making a premier leap into the arena L of the world and flashing the shy but incomparable challenge of morning loveliness and consecrated ambition — come cold type, aged words, accustomed phrases!
A ridiculous jump-off, isn't it?
But listen a minute — here's what we wanted to say:
These eleven girls represent about all that is important in life.
They stand for determination and will, which have been the base of every human accomplishment.
They stand for imagination, the thing that found the poles and built the first suspension bridge and inspired every poem.
They stand for beauty — they are beauty — that which, in some form or other, makes existence endurable.
They represent the pluck of American womanhood, which works without precedent and glories in the unusual.
They forecast the new type of player; the native player; the player whose first and only study is the shadow stage, and who brings to it no prejudices of the theater.
They are an incarnation of Youth.
Youth is the wonderful thing which all the world acknowledges sovereign. The attributes before named are only a part of Youth. Youth is the whole of them — the iron of determination, the crucible of ambition, the white-hot arc of imagination, the invincibility which laughs at disaster, the crystal shell in which beauty dwells, the supreme hour of womanhood.
Photoplay Magazine feels very proud of these, its children.
It does not tell fortunes, nor distribute prognostications, nor pretend to read the future. But it believes that each of these young women is a daughter of destiny, and that she is ordained to splendid things. It may be that every one of the eleven will be a notable actress of extraordinary individuality and powers. It may be not. Nevertheless, Photoplay Magazine ventures that each has "the goods of success" in some form or other. The eleven have triumphed over thousands of other native daughters by sheer merit. This has not been an elective contest of purchased votes. It has been just a matter of — Beauty and Brains.
It has been remarked that the photoplay has developed more real beauty in five years than the legitimate stage in three times that period. Yet —
Can you find on the screen today any more charming types of loveliness than this allAmerica Eleven?
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