Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Mar-Aug 1926
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000229
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:
January 12, 2023
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99 Thrills! Real thrills these, not just the result of trick photography. We don't see so many of them in the movies now as in the old days, but there are still plenty of dare-devils to furnish us with excitement from time to time. The picture at the top of the page is a scene from "The Radio Detective," in which Jack Daugherty leaps from his pony to stop a runaway team. In the picture just above, it is William Desmond who is being thrown head foremost over the edge of a cliff, while at the right, Art Acord is shown just after he has thrown himself at the heads of a pair of runaway horses in "The Plotters." Joe Bonomo, strong man of the movies, having a tussle with an alligator. One snap of the reptile's enormous jaws, or one whack of his powerful tail, and Bonomo might have been done for.