Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1921)

Advertising Section 11 Fugitive Flashes By A. Split Reel A Cowlick never helped a closeup. if . . ; U Movie-serial stars rush in where angels fear to tread. Scenes of custard-pie throwing always make instantaneous hits. Babies are generally howling successes on the screen. Poney Mopps, the movie hero, has been stricken with double exposure. There should be temperance in all things including the use of eyebrow pencils. Osmun Liles, who has completed a course in motion-picture acting, has four diplomas, a ton of mail, and no job. Our own Movie Mother Goose : Little Jack Horner won't sit in a corner Eating a Christmas pie. He goes each day to some movie play For he's an up-to-date guy ! In a moment of mental abberation, "Buckshot" Hennessey picked his teeth with a fork, and the big dinner scene in "Among The Four Hundred" was spoiled. "Diana of the Hollyhocks" played to S. R. O. yesterday afternoon and evening. The reel is doing onenight stands through the oil fields. Ebeneezer Potee, as "Bun Hampton, a diamond in the rough," gave a sparkling performance both on and off. Shiny elbows and twenty-sheet posters are almost insurmountable obstacles to reel success. Allen O. Tush, the leading heavy, smoked a stogie, instead of a cigarette in the full shots of "Asthma," and a lot of retakes were essential. Here's one : Jack Spratt would eat no fat. His wife would eat no lean; But they would go to the movie show With Norma on the screen ! "The Reporter's Scoop," a thrilling five-reel feature of newspaper life, was unusually realistic. The reporters did not carry stenographer's notebooks, and there were no job presses in the composing-room scene. S 100 22 in PRIZES t Do you like to write songs? This contest is for amateurs (fifteen years of age or more). Do not hesitate to enter through lack of experience. Select your own subject and then submit your song-poem to us. First Prize, $40.00 — and guarantee of publication by either a New York or Chicago publisher without cost. Second Prize, $25.00 Third Prize, $15.00 Ten Prizes, each, $2.00 Our business is to compose and arrange music for songs, and to secure their publication. If you enter this contest and we find that your song'poem is adapted to musical setting, we shall offer to compose music and secure publication of your song. Details of Contest This contest open to amateurs. IMPORTANT — Only two verses and a chorus wanted. Music publishers insist on publishing songs with not more than two verses and a chorus. Look over all popular songs and you will find this true. Write your song in either longhand or have it typewritten. Songs will be judged and prizes awarded by the Staff of the Seton Music Company. Awards will be made on the basis of merit. All contestants will be notified of the prize winners. This contest will close JANUARY FIRST, 1922. All song'poems must be in our office before midnight, DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, 1921. Send us a song-poem WITHOUT DELAY! SETON MUSIC CO., 265 Contest Dept., 920 S.Michigan Ave., Chicago LEARN Movie Acting! A fascinating: profession that pays big. Would you like to know if you are adapted to this work? Send 10c for our Twelve-Hour Talent-Tester or Key to Movie Acting: Aptitude, and find whether or not you are suited to take up Movie Acting. A novel, instructive and valuable work. Send dime or stamps today. A large, interesting, illustrated Booklet on Movie Acting included FREE ! FILM INFORMATION BUREAU, Sta. R, Jackson, Mich. Mailed in plain wrapper. Table c 320 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED, CLOTH By Winfield Scott Hall, M.D., Ph.D. SEX FACTS MADE PLAIN What every young man and Every young woman should know What every young husband and Every young wife should know What every parent should know AMERICAN pU^CO.r m636 Winston Bldg., Philadelphia BLANK CARTRIDGE $| PISTOL Only ■■• 7 inches long, real revolver style. For protection and sport, every man, woman and boy should have one. Order at once. Get an American flag FREE. Money refunded if desired. M. H. LEWIS CO., 1402 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY Write the Words for a Song! Write the words for a song. We revise song-poems, compose music for them, and guarantee to secure publication on a royalty basis by a New York music publisher. Our Lyric Editor and Chief Composer is a song-writer of national reputation and has written many big song-hits. Millions of copies of his songs have been sold. Mail your song-poem on love, peace, victory or any other subject to us today. Poems submitted are examined free. BROADWAY COMPOSING STUDIOS 253 Fitzgerald Building Broadway at Times Sq. NEW YORK, N. Y.