Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

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Advertising Section 113 This Winter They'll be Talking About GHOSTS That's the title of the great romantic novel just completed for People's Favorite Magazine by First Installment Appears in December Issue — Out November lO Some clever magazine readers are such good critics that they can foretell with uncanny accuracy, while a novel is running serially in a magazine, whether it will make a big enough "hit" to appear later in book form. Some can even tell whether it is apt to be dramatized as a film play. All of these will do well to place their bets on He is a prominent Philadelphia business man who writes under an assumed name and always evades camera "close-ups." to keep his business associates from identifying him. Not that he's bashful— but suppose you were a stenographer in his firm's office, for instance, and he caught you reading a novel instead of working. Large chance he'd have to growl, if the novel were "Ghosts!" (Film rights to this paragraph not reserved!) When published in book form after its serial publication in PEOPLE'S, the tariff on "Ghosts" will be about $2.00, and it will be worth it. But first it will appear, in only four installments, and handsomely illustrated, in the magazine that during the past two years has set the pace for all other general magazines. If you like to be several months ahead of your acquaintances in recognizing— and being able to talk about — the greatest novels of the year : don't miss the first installment of "Ghosts," in the December issue of People's And that's only one of the many big features that are making People's the highest class general magazine in America. Some of the other famous contributors to this issue are : Albert Payson Terhune, Professor Edward L. Thorndike of Columbia University, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Conrad Richter, Berton Braley, and Hugh S. Fullerton. ARTHUR CRABB "GHOSTS. The Author 25 cents a copy PEOPLE'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE Two dollars a year The monthly book of the ambitious. December issue on news stands November lO