Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1925)

Contents — Continued «(>*= Star Shine (Verse) Close-Ups and Long Shots Herbert Howe Witty Comment on Screen Personalities Girls Who Are Good at Figures (Photographs) It's Not a Matter of Mathematics, Either Calories and Contours Nita Naldi's Reduction Methods Rotogravure: Nita Naldi, Murray Agnes Smith Ruth Wilcox, Florence Vidor, Mae Mae Murray The Milky Way to Beauty Simple Rules that Spell Fascination Six-In-One . . . Find Your Own A Composite Photograph of Half a Dozen Famous Gentlemen Windows Reveal the Soul of Your Room Charles D. Chapman A Noted Art Director Tells How to Adapt Screen Ideas to Your Home Alice, Rex and Tony (Photographs) Three Famous Ones Abroad The Perils of Monotony Robert E. Sherwood Another Hollywood Org^ (Photographs) The Girl on the Cover — Aileen Pringle Cal York Take Your Eye Exercise at the Movies Harry Thompson A Modem Samaritan Jim Tully That's the Only Title That Quite Fits Paul Bern An Epic of a Dying Race (Photographs) Questions and Answers 37 Margaret E. Sangster Drawing by Herbert Deland Williams A Hollywood Cinderella (Short Story) Charlton Andrews A Girl Who Surprised Them All Illustrated by Harley Eimis Stivers Some Freak Insurance Policies (Photographs) 40 Everything — from a Ringlet to an x\nkle — Has a High Cash Value Studio News and Gossip— East and West Cal York 42 What the Screen Folk Are Doing "Zorro" Has His Bark at Art Not Doug, but Mary's Dog The Shadow Stage The Department of Practical Screen Criticism The Screen Suggests Your Fall Wardrobe (Drawings) Esther Ralston, Lila Lee. Mary Brian and Others Display the NewStyles Friendly Advice The Department of Personal Service The Answer Man Carolyn Van Wyck 102 118 Casts of Current Photoplays Complete for Every Picture Reviewed in This Issue Addresses and working programs of the leading motion picture studios iv'l! be found on page 88 He Started Something A FEW months ago our -* *-genial but cynical friend, Herbert Howe, took his pen in hand, and selected "The Ten Most BeautifulWomen." Herb writes only what he thinks, and when he thinks he sa ys. Newspaper critics of the silent drama started criticing as soon as Photoplay appeared. Some of them roasted Herb and some of them toasted him. So the editor asked them to decide it. Beauty is a matter of opinion and they certainly had opinions. One of them accused the editor of Photoplay of a sinister plot to annihilate newspaper critics, but that was not the intention. It was just a deep laid plot to start some fun. You get in on it in the December issue — you know, the one you are going to buy next month. More That same December issue is to contain some of the snappiest pages you ever found in your favorite picture magazine. Some of our dear competitors copy pretty closely, but this issue will keep them busy for two months. We are going to tell you how those babies in the new Paramount School of Motion Picture Acting are getting along and about the fun they have. You've wondered what directors are made of and how they are made. We will tell you. It's too full of good things to begin to tell you in this space. ^ So, don't forget the December issue — out November 15th — the L