Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Sep 1923 - Feb 1924
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000265
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
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 28, 2022
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Seeing Movies in London Where the English fan goes for his screen entertainment. HERE are three of the principal theaters in London that are given over to the showing of motion pictures. Just as film production itself has been held up and retarded in England for nearly eight years because of the war, so too has the building of theaters especially for motion-picture exhibition been neglected. For that reason, most English theaters now devoted to the exhibition of films were built originally for other purposes. But because of the amazing growth in popularity of the cinema, one after the other of these theaters has slowly lowered its curtain on former glories of light and color and sound to serve as a dim background for the strange, silent weaver of illusion — the silver screen. At the top of the page is shown the Kennington Theater, situated in the southeast of London. At the right is the Palais de Luxe, in the West End. To the left is shown the Stoll Picture House, Kingsway. in the West End of London, magnificent memorial to the brilliant but impractical Oscar Hammerstein, who built it as an opera house.