Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

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ICIB459474 MONTHLY No. 4 PICTUREPLAY MAGAZINE CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1920 . Gordon Gassaway What a Picture Earns .... Alfred A. Cohn Facts and figures that are surprising — and impressive. Favorite Picture Players ... ... Portraits of screen favorites in rotogravure. Shore Acres C. L. Edson . The famous old stage play — now showing on the screen— told in story form. The House That Mary Built . . . Martin J. Bent Which concerns the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks. Get Busy and Dig! That's the advice of Monte Blue. In a Persian Garden .... Gene Copeland . 34 Ferdinand Pinney Earle has devised a new way of taking motion pictures. Shooting "Snow Stuff" .... Charles Gatchell . 36 A chat with Edward Earle about picture making up in the timber country. So This Is Modesty! .... Caroline Bell . . 38 It is also Margaret Loomis. The Observer 39 Editorial comment on timely topics concerning the screen. "I Told You So, Vivian!" . . . Barbara Little . 41 What Miss Martin was told was that she"d soon be back in pictures — and so she is. Knee-deep in June . . 42 Glimpses of some of our favorite screen stars in the "rarest-month"' settings. The Extra Specialist .... Frank H. Williams . 46 Even the players of small parts specialize nowadays. An Accomplished Villain . . . George Arthur Gray 47 Stuart Holmes is a two-career man. Is She Lillian Russell's Successor ? . . Herbert Howe . 48 Katherine MacDonald's admirers claim the title for her. Fade-Outs Gentle gibes at the fads and foibles of the screen. "Married? Sure, But I Wish I Weren't" Emma-Lindsay Squier 52 So says Joe Martin, Universal's famous orang-utan. Hints for Scenario Writers Information and advice for the amateur writer. Harry J. Smalley William Lord Wright 53 Caroline Bell . , 55 Continued on the Second Page Following The Very Unexpected . . . . It happens to Corinne Griffith in her latest picture. Monthly publication issued by Street & Smith Corporation, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Ormond G. Smith, President: George C. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer Copyright, 1920, by Street & Smith Corporation, New York. Copyright, 1920, bv Street & Smith Corporation, Great Britain. Ail Rights Reserved. Publishers everywhere are cautioned against using any of the contents of this magazine either wholly or in part. Entered as Second-class Matter, March 6, 1916, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Canadian subscription, $2.36. Foreign, $2.72. WARNING— Do not subscribe through agents unknown to yon. Complaints are daily made by persons who have been thus victimized. IMPORTANT— Authors, agents, and publishers are requested to note that this firm does not hold itself responsible for loss of unsolicited manuscripts while at this office or in transit: and that it cannot undertake to hold uncalled-for manuscripts for a longer period than six months, if the return of manuscript is expected, postage should be inclosed. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION. .fJ.OO SINGLE COPIES, 20 CENTS