Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Sep 1917 - Feb 1918
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000832
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
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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186 The Melodrama of Shadows Mr. Brenon, left, is exceedingly human at work. He is seen here %in Florida, suffering from both temperature and temperament, immediately after having sacrificed an aeroplane for the sake of melodrama. With him are Bert Lytell, Hazel Dawn, and the aviator. them. The new photo play is coming to tell a story of human action." Mr. Brenon believes unwaveringly in the tremendous future of the photo play. His career has been the career of the picture drama. Straight through his list of productions from the start Mr. Brenon has revealed a steady development. "Neptune's Daughter," 'The Heart of Maryland," "The Kreutzer Sonata," "The Clemenceau Case," "The Soul of Broadway," "The Two Orphans," "A Daughter of the Gods," "War Brides," "The Lone Wolf," and "The Fall of the Romanoffs" were each distinct steps ahead. These revealed a fine imaginative fantasy, a singular grasp of direct drama, and the ability — unusual to both stage and screen — of humanizing melodrama. Such versatility is rare to the celluloid drama. "In a recent article which I read in a magazine," continued Mr. Brenon, "the author makes the statement that