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little white pamphlet about one-sixth as thick as the present magazine, with no cover, and with pages not much more than half the present size?
Well, that's what the first issue looked like when it reached a waiting world just twenty-five years ago this faU.
On the first page was the name of the magazine, the volume number and the date, and a one-color, half-tone photograph of the aforesaid Thanhouser youngster. The next few pages contained cabinet-size portraits, one on each page, of popular favorites whose names were just beginning to be known to their admirers; men like King Baggot and Phillips Smalley; girls lil^e Flo LaBadie and Marguerite Snow, stars of "The Million Dollar Mystery," and Pauline Bush, who afterward married Allan Dwan, the director.
Oh yes, there was also a picture of "Little Mary!"
Then folio .ved several pages, each of which looked exactly like the one before. At the top was a "still" picture from a current film — most of them so still they were dead. Below was a brief fiction story of the plot of the picture, although, as a matter of fact, one plot would have done for the lot.
This sort of thing went on for about a year.
By the fall of 1912, however, a two-color cover had made its appearance, a bit crude as yet, but giving to the pamphlet more the appearance of a magazine; and the names of players in the casts of current pictures were actually mentioned. That was a great innovation! In the October issue appeared a " Mr. Dillon" and a " Mr. Nagel." First names were still taboo. That same issue contained the first interviews with stars; Flo LaBadie of Thanhouser and King Baggot of Imp.
The December number gave the first authentic figures on the cost of picture-making. "The Star of Bethlehem,"
Although the screen had not found its voice, there was an invasion of stage stars in the 1920s, headed by Doug Fairbanks. Remember h i s acrobatics? He is with Bessie Love
During the war years Mack Sennett's bath ing beauties kept Ihe world laughing. Lower right. Entering films in 1913, Chaplin achieved instant popularity. One of his best "Shoulder Arms"
Warners made history with "The Jazz Singer," the first singing-talkie with May McAvoy and Jolson's "Mammy"
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For the past quarter eentury we have faith
fully reflected for you the amazing progress
of motion pictures. Do you remember —
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