Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1919
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)
Leaf #:
000723
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Early Cinema, Hollywood Studio System, and Fan Magazines
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:
September 21, 2023
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(Z3he World's Leading CVVfoi'in^ ^Pi<^hire cJ^a^azinc PHOTOPLAY Vol. XVII ^December, 1919 No. I To a Certain Girl: you have been our best'heloved child, and just because of you we could wish tlmt all calaidars were destroyed and all cloc\s outlawed. With you, we would wish always to be among the flowers of May. But neither the world nor we were made to do without cloc\s and calendars. And when we open our eyes it must be to see that the changes these un\ind im^ plements measure are rightly called Progress; and that when we view it in the right perspective Today ir. better than Yesterday; and upon our own part we ought to be finer men and women at thirty than we were at twentyfive. You. Girl, are at the threshold of summer. We who watched you so earn' estly through April flowers and May sunshine are waiting, now, to see you wal\ forward into the full glory of ripeiting June. The spleiidor of early womanhood awaits you. Somehow, there is anxiety in your eyes. You seem to linger, wondering if our devotion can survive the passing of the curls and the coming of a coiffure. Is it just a curl your millions love? Is it only a dirty face or torn overalls, or merely a gingham pinafore? But everything goes forward iyi this world as iyi all others, and we \now that our little girl is growing up. Sometimes, now, won't you please be a woman for us, depicting a ivomun's hopes and penis and joys? Please do not be afraid to grow up, Mary Pickjord.