Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Page scan 000137 from Picture-Play Magazine

Record Details:

Title:
Picture-Play Magazine
Date:
Mar-Aug 1926
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000137
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Fan Magazines
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 08, 2024
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Advertising Section 5 HAROLD LLOYD and PARAMOUNT Harold Lloyd's decision to release his productions through Paramount is interesting to fans everywhere. It is fitting that the leading individual exponent of clean, wholesome screen comedy should be allied with the world's foremost screen organization. Harold Lloyd has gone steadily from success to success. Perhaps there has never been such a tremendous mint of comedy as the world found in his last picture, "The Freshman." Now comes: Grouches should be careful to see this picture while they are alone, or they will lose their reputations forever. Harold Lloyd is king of laughter today for the simple reason that laughter follows him as rainbows follow summer showers. Harold Lloyd's productions are made by the Harold Lloyd Corporation, and the public can rest assured that his pictures will always be clean. Paramount is proud to pay the great comedian this tribute and to have the privilege of releasing "For Heaven's Sake ! " Ask your theatre to book it early, and let you know the date. L SAKE/' Harold Lloyd's next production and first Paramount release Directed by Sam Taylor (paramount tyiciu/vs "If it's a Paramount Picture it's the best show in townl"