Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Mar-Aug 1916
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000692
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
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:
August 29, 2022
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IS SHE ANOTHER PICKFORD? A LITTLE girl named Love — yes, Bessie Love — looms brightest now as a probable second Mary Pickford. She is entirely different from the queen of motion pictures so far as looks are concerned, but her wistful eyes and appealing manner speak loudly in her favor. And, moreover, she was discovered by none ether than David W. Griffith himself, who, it will be remembered, was the man to place .Little Mary" on the pedestal of public favor. Bessie is only sixteen — which gives her plenty of time to build her future — but has already won her way gave her a servant to many hearts. A very short time ago she went with her mother to Mr. Griffith and applied for work. The "'Master Mind" role in ''The Flying Torpedo." There was no private rehearsal. Mr. Griffith just told Bessie: ''You are a terrible Swede. Your employer has been murdered. You dash in to Mr. Emerson with the news. Let's see, }-ou better yell : 'By Yiminy, he yumped to hell/ " "1 have to say that?" she queried in wonder; and Mr. Griffith nodded. She said it — and the story was rewritten to give her a leading part. She has been playing leads ever since, and at the Griffith studios Bessie is called "Our Mary" — with a tone of prediction.