Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

Page scan 000858 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1916
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)
Leaf #:
000858
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s. Photoplay offered readers portraits of their favorite movie stars and stories about their personal lives. The magazine played an important promotional function for the Hollywood industry, but its editors and reviewers could also be highly critical of Hollywood. Beginning in 1921, Photoplay bestowed its annual 'Medal of Honor' for the film readers voted as the best of the year. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011.
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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Some Hints to Scenario Contestants Til ERE remain ninety days of the Thus. H. Ince-Photoplay Magazine Scenario Contest, the four winners in which will receive cash prizes of $1,000, $500, $300 and $200, and in which nonwinning manuscripts which tell unusually good screen stories will be purchased al prices attractive to contestants. As announced, all rights to accepted scenarios become the property of Photoplay Magazine, all screen rights the property of Thos. H. Ince. The fiction versions of the plays will be published concurrently with the release of the. pictures. Despite the announcement of the few simple rules governing the Contest, the management receives many letters daily asking about them. The rules are here and now restated for the benefit of all inquirers : 1 . It is preferable to have the play submitted in full scenario form, but a detailed synopsis instead will be accepted. 2. Manuscripts must be typewritten and on one side only of the paper. Manuscripts in long hand will not be read. 3. Self-addressed stamped envelope must be enclosed if return of rejected manuscript is desired. 4. The scenarios submitted must be suitable for five-reel plavs. and must be repre sentative of American life in one or more of its phases. 5. Photoplays containing political arguments or propaganda, or embroiling religious sects or political parties, or treating the sex question indelicately, or which are absolute tragedy or unrelieved comedy, will not be acceptable. 6. Amateurs' manuscripts will be as carefully considered as professionals'. No prize will be awarded or scenario otherwise bought on the strength of the author's name : the scenario must be its own letter of introduction. 7. A contestant may submit as many scenarios as she or he wishes to. 8. (This is not a Rule, just a suggestion) : Mr. Ince particularly wants big. virile stories for William S. Hart : society or light comedy dramas for Bessie Bar-. riscale : big dramas demanding strong characterization suitable for an actor of Frank Keenan's type : romantic plays (not costume drama ) suitable for William Desmond : and strong sympathetic plays — of the same generic type as "The Coward" — for Charles Ray. The Contest closes at midnight of December 31, 1916; the postmark on the manuscript cover must be earlier than that hour. Title Contest Winners Following are the winners of the September Photoplay Title Contest. No. 8 : 1. Mrs. A. B. Lueders, 2 IS Division St.. Bellevue, Ky. 2. Mrs. Herman P. Wunsch, 315 Lons dale Ave.. Pawtucket. R. I. 3. John J. Maxwell. 850' _. Ferry Park Ave., Detroit. Mich. 4. Mrs. F. C. Evarts. 642 Woodward Ave., New Haven, Conn. 5. Henry Plymire. 522 Fifth St.. Marysville, Yuba Co.. Cal. 6. D. Coyle, Weedsport. N. V. 7. Dersie Trammell, Davis. Okla. 8. Mrs. E. B. Turner. Box 5 7 7. Davis, ( )kla. 9. C. E. Cole. 325 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis. Ind. 10. Mrs. A. E. Bright, ('.rant Orchards. Wash. 11. Mrs. H. F. Weller. 507 Frederick Ave.. Milwaukee. Wis. 12. Miss Ottillia M. Trott. 412 Continental Bldg., Denver. Colo. 13. T A. Reeves. 40 Yard Ave.. Trenton. N. T. 14. Mrs. J. P. Klein. 5943 Washington Blvd.. St. Louis, Mo. The correct titles for the September Contest were: 1. The Destroyer. 2. Saints and Sinners. 3. doing Straight. 4. Reclamation. 5. The Other Side of the Door. 6. Alien Souls. 7. The Man Inside. 8. The Island that Never Was. 13S