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The World’s Leading Motion Picture Publication
PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE
FREDERICK JAMES SMITH JAMES R. QUIRK, EDITOR
MANAGING EDITOR
ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
WESTERN EDITOR
VOL. XXIII
Contents
February, 1923
Cover Design
From a Pastel Portrait by J. Knowles Hare
Photoplays Reviewed in the Shadow Stage This Issue
Pola Negri
Save this magazine — refer to the criticisms before you pick out your evening's entertainment. Make this your reference list.
Brickbats and Bouquets 8
Letters from Readers
Friendly Advice Carolyn Van Wyck 12
The Department of Personal Service
Rotogravure: 19
Elsie Ferguson, Harriett Hammond, Nita Naldi, Lewis Stone, Antonio Moreno, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford
Editorial — The Ducking Stool for Hollywood 27
The Loves of Charlie Chaplin Adela Rogers St. Johns 28
How Seriously Has the Great Comedian Taken His Private Romances?
My Life Story Rodolph Valentino 31
The First Installment of the Most Fascinating Autobiography Ever Written by a Stage or Screen Celebrity
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The Hottentot Ince-First National
Down to the Sea in Ships. .Elmer Clifton
Peg o’ My Heart Metro
Page 65
Minnie First National
The Beautiful and Damned
Warner Brothers
Quincy Adams Sawyer Metro
Page 66
Outcast Paramount
A Blind Bargain Goldwyn
Ebb Tide Paramount
When Love Comes. . . . Film Booking Co.
Love in the Dark Metro
Thelma R.-C. Film Booking Co.
Page 67
Brothers Under the Skin Goldwyn
The Pride of Palomar Paramount
What Fools Men Are Pyramid
A Daughter of Luxury Paramount
Singed Wings . Paramount
Anna Ascends Paramount
Here’s What Rich Stars Do With their Money
Frederick James Smith 36
If a Rainy Day Comes Most of the Film Favorites Will Have Their Financial Umbrellas Up
Wesley Without Freckles Delight Evans 39
An Interview With Him of the Facial Sun Spots (Contents continued on next page)
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Page 95
Forsaking All Others Universal
The Educator Educational
The Streets of New York Arrow
Broken Chains Goldwyn
A Weak End Party Metro
Page 96
An Old Sea Dog Pathe
The Altar Stairs Universal
Ridin’ Wild Universal
The Marriage Chance. . . . Amer. Booking
The Jilt Universal
The Call of the Desert
Pyramid-American Releasing
Bow Wow Sennett
Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Preferred Pictures
Thirty Days Paramount
One Wonderful Night Universal
The Super Sex American Releasing
The Ninety and Nine Vitagraph
Copyright, 1923, by the Photoplay Publishing Company, Chicago.