Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Page scan 000149 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 #:
000149
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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17 German Films themselves to distribute throughout the United States productions a year. Addison Elliott wish. Universal is not pledged to show any definite number of German films, but they will probably distribute some of them. Four of Ufa's productions, characters and scenes from which are shown on these pages, have been definitely selected for the American market. Thev are : "Vaudeville," "Metropolis," "Faust," and "A Waltz Dream." Xenia Desni as the Viennese violinist [in "A Waltz Dream. " Above, Mady Christians as the Princess and, at the left, Willy Fritsch as the Prince Consort, in "A Waltz Dream." "Vaudeville," as the name implies, is a story of the variety stage, the plot of which hinges upon the love affair of a famous trapeze performer, whose role is played by Emil Jannings. "Metropolis" is a fanciful story laid in the future, in a period in which, according to the imagination of the writer, toilers all live in huge underground cities where the work is done, while the ruling classes dwell above in the sunlight. The story tells of the conflict between these two classes, ending in a terrific flood which takes place when the giant water mains are turned loose underGosta Ekman, the Swedish ground, driving the workers actor, in the title role of out and causing terror and deUfa's "Faust." struction. [Continued on page 1111