Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

14 Advertising Section piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipii^ niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM | Why Do You Read a Movie Magazine? \ I Because you want to know more | about the great world of the screen. You sit in the darkened theater, thrilled with excitement, moved with deep feeling, or shaking with laughter, as. you follow your favorite star through the adventures of the play. And then, as you leave, comes the wish that you might know more about the real person who created that marvelous image on the screen, that you might come to know him — or her — intimately, as you know your own close friends. Or, as you discuss the production, and questions begin to arise as to how some of these marvelous effects shown were produced, how some of the seemingly impossible feats were performed, you are conscious of a longing to be taken behind the scenes, to learn how it"s all done. You see the announcements of the forthcoming productions in which your favorite stars are to appear, and you wonder which ones are worth going to see, which ones you can t afford to miss. And it is because PICTURE-PLAY MAGAZINE answers these desires of yours better than any other publication that you are reading this very issue Turn the pages and ask yourself if this is not so. Did you ever come closer to a human being through a word picture than in the article which Emma-Lindsay Squier wrote about ZaSu Pitts — or the story on Nazimova in last month's issue — a story, by the way, which the great star said was the best one that had ever been written about her? You wanted to be taken behind the scenes — well, here are two trips: ''What Becomes of the Story*' and '"How a Movie City Is Built." But PICTURE-PLAY does even more. It gives you, more than any publication, a wide variety of subjects connected with the screen. It never fails to carry something of value in pointing the way to the thousands who wish some day to enter this great profession in some capacity. It offers you the opportunity of contributing to the most interesting and constructive department of ideas concerning the screen that is to be found anywhere, a department called '•What the Fans Think." Herbert Howe, who is to conduct his own department, beginning in the November issue. Photo by Hoover. And it has still more things in store. Among them will be Herbert Howe's own department of chat and news, gathered in and around Hollywood. If you read the article, " Come-On-In," in our September issue, you know how intimately Mr. Howe knows the life of the film folk. His department will reflect, in a bright and humorous manner, the little inside happenings of the colony. Watch for this new department— you will be repaid for doing so. There will also appear, in our next issue, the first of a series of GREAT LOVE STORIES OF FILMLAND, written by Grace Kingsley. There is no one who knows as many stars as intimately as Miss Kingsley, and there is no one who can write more truly, more sympathetically about them, as you know if you have read the many stories which she has written for us — such, for example, as the one we printed last month, in which Bebe Daniels told about her first love affair — and her second. This series will begin with the romance of Charles Ray and Clara Grant — a story which never before has been told, and one that will hold your interest from the first word to the last. To insure reading this great romance, and the others of the series send your name and address to-day with $2 for a full year's subscription. Picture-Play Magazine = Grace Kingsley and t Bryant Washburn family. The story of the Washburns' romance will appear as one of o *Vi A her series of great love stories of filmland. • V oCVentll AvenUC) New York City §j