Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Jul - Dec 1929
Publisher:
New York, Street
Volume:
Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)
Leaf #:
000109
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Began publishing in 1915; mid-level fan magazine on par with Movie Classic and Screenland. Cost a twenty five cents an issue up until pricing pressure from New Movie (c. 1932) incited an across-the-board price decrease to 10 cents. Merged with Charm in 1941, which would later become Glamour magazine (1959). -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Ill] The Midnight Oil Nowadays the players are burning lots of it learning their lines, stopping now and then to sigh for the good, old silent days. Sally Starr, left, finds a perch behind the set on the sound stage and digs in, preparing to speak her speech "trippingly upon the tongue" as a new screen discovery is expected to do. Robert Montgomery, right, removes his coat and tackles his lines right in the midst of a lot of machinery, for the newlyfound concentration in Hollywood rises above inharmonious atmosphere. Ramon Novarro, below, may be pictured by the fans as floating on tropical seas warbling to bis lady love, but there is another side to it, for there is much prosaic work behind every talkie scene. One good reason why Norma Shearer, above, is riding the talkie crests is that she snatches every opportunity to refresh her memory before the cameras start grinding. Zita Johann, left, who hails from the New York stage, tries out the new type of director's chair while getting acquainted with sound production, but the script must be dragged along on the inspection tour.