Photoplay (Feb 1923)

Page scan 00043 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Feb 1923
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Publishing Co.
Volume:
Photoplay (Feb 1923)
Leaf #:
00043
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
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:
June 20, 2024
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I I He Danced his way into Pictures HE Who Keeps Hollywood On Its Toes — M. Theodore Kosloff, creator of dancing stars, painter, pantomimist, high councilor of art in the studios, a classmate of the Incomparables — Pavlowa, Mordkin and Nijinksy. This Pierrot of Hollywood is naturally a likely nominee for the role of Deburau when that celebrated clown of tragedy skips from Mr. Belasco’s velvet stage to Mr. Lasky’s satin celluloid. Born in Moscow of a father who was protege and pupil of the great Anton Rubinstein and of a mother who was a celebrated beauty in the days of the Romanoffs, and in the background of Russian steppes and snows, a real Tartar grandfather — he brings the Russian influence to Hollywood. At eight years of age he was in the Imperial [ continued on page 116] Above, Theodore Kosloff at home with his Russian ukulele. At left, in a swashbuckling moment from “To Have and To Hold.” Below. Theodore poses as a mujik at the door of his Hollywood hut AS