Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1918)

Page scan 000235 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul-Dec 1918
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1918)
Leaf #:
000235
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine
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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A GREAT FIRE THAT DIED IN INFANCY Above — The gentleman in shirt-sleeves is Jesse Lasky; the time is half an hour after the fire started. The fire is now history, and twenty minutes later, actual reconstruction, in the form of temporary shoring for an allsteel frame to supplant the charred and ancient wooden one, will have commenced. LAST month the tightly-packed Lasky lot, in Hollywood, had a hundred-thousand-dollar fire that was a miracle for not becoming a million-dollar one. It happened in the middle of a busy afternoon, and started in an old wooden building on the north side of the enclosure. It destroyed a storeroom, a quantity of film and is said to have damaged the color processes upon which the Lasky people have been working for many months. But the marvel is that it didn't spread to stages, offices, store-rooms and other buildings. The fire was stopped — by the Hollywood fire department and the whole studio force. Theodore Roberts and Wanda Hawley seem to think the fire isn't going to amount to much. Mr. Roberts is arrayed as some sort of Oriental monster in "We Can't Have Everything," Above, Tully Marshall plays the hose and Ernest Joy, in the fez, directs.