Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1928)

114 Advertising Section Popular Copyrights Tales of the West, of Love and Mystery and Adventures on sea and land — you can have them now, fresh from the pens of your favorite authors. They are real books, too — no reprints of oldtimers but new books bound in cloth, with handsome stamping and jackets and all for 75 cents. Ask your bookseller to show you some of the books listed below — The Brand of Good Books THE SUNSET TRAIL Joseph Montague WOLF COUNTRY Stanley Shaw ALIAS THE THUNDERBOLT Johnston McCulley MR. CLACKWORTHY. CON MAN Christopher B. Booth THE OUTLAW TAMER David Manning PETALS OF CATHAY Joseph Montague THE GIRL FROM SHANTY CREEK Emait Kinsburn POWDERED PROOF Madeleine Sharps Buchanan THE TWO-GUN KID Robert J. Horton SUCKER MONEY Robert H. Rohde GRIZZLY GALLAGHER Reginald C. Barker THE AVENGING TWINS COLLECT Johnston McCulley BEYOND THE FRONTIER MIRADOR TREASURE WESTERN TOMMY THE MAN WHO AWOKE THE CARVED TRAIL THE EDGED TOOL ARIZONA GOLD THE AVENGING TWINS HAWKS OF HAZARD HONEY OF DANGER BANDIT'S HONOR THE HOUSE OF CARSON SILVER SPURS Joseph Montague Frank Lillie Pollock David Manning Mary Imlay Taylor Emart Kinsburn William Morton Whitman Chambers Johnston McCulley Joseph Montague Frank Lillie Pollock David Manning Arthur Mallory Joseph Montague DELSBV HOUSE RftlSMEIg 179-89 SEVENTH AVE., i NEW YORK. CITY 75c 75c The Stroller Continued from page 109 Beauty of Womanhood — e Bust f Developed Quickly THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN SAYS: "I have proven that any woman can have a beautiful bust if she will only use your method. It is over 3 years since I used it. The results are permanent. Friends envy my perfect figure." (Name on reQuest. ) FOR FIFTEEN TEARS this method has stood as the only safe, sure, harmless way of developing a woman's bust. 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Zisco was one of those hopeless inventors who made such things as automatic pancake-turners, and Harry Menk had the odious title of "Ragpicker." Zisco and Menk worked in the same town back East where film was manufactured. Menk often got the job of dumping the tiny bits of film confetti which were punched out of the celluloid ribbon to form sprocket holes. These are tiny perforations on each side of the film, which permit it to be caught by gears and run through the camera. He figured that these holes were ten per cent of the surface of the film, and wondered why the manufacturer didn't conserve the obvious loss. So he went to his inventive friend, Zisco, and told him about it. For more than a year Zisco worked on an enormous contraption which would reclaim these tiny bits of film and mold them into real, fullsize film. When he had it perfected, he sent Menk to buy up all the film confetti from the laboratories. In a short time they were underselling the big boys. The confetti supply was cut off and then they had an offer from a big company for their machine. They sold it for five million dollars and moved to Hollywood. I hope they don't try to produce pictures out of cut-outs. Anyway, that's why the stock of one big film-manufacturing concern went up fifteen dollars a share one month, not long ago. A Confidential Guide to Current Releases Continued from page 67 "High School Hero, The"— Fox. Gay comedy of high-school life, featuring youngsters who really look like highschool girls and boys. Nick Stuart and Sally Phipps. "Honeymoon Hate" — Paramount. Amusing and deftly told tale of an heiress, who antagonizes an impoverished nobleman. They eventually marry, and amusing situations arise when he attempts to tame her. Florence Vidor is her usual charming self and others are Tullio Carminati and William Austin. "Jazz Singer, The" — Warner. Vitaphone picture, featuring Al Jolson and his voice, also May McAvoy. Story of Jewish cantor's son who is disowned for going into musical comedy, but eventually returns to take his dead father's place in the synagogue. "Jesse James" — Paramount. Fred Thomson in glorified chronicle of the life of the famous bandit. Full of thrills and suspense. "King of Kings, The" — Producers Distributing. Sincere and reverent visualization of the last three years in the life of Christ. H. B. Warner dignified and restrained in central role. Cast includes Jacqueline Logan, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Varconi, and Rudolph Schildkraut. "London After Midnight"— MetroGoldwyn. Excellent mystery film. Lon Chaney, as Burke of Scotland Yard, employs subtle and uncanny means of finding a murderer. Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, and Henry B. Walthall give expert support. "Love" — Metro-Goldwyn. Superficial and unsatisf3ring. However, the beauti ful sets and romantic situations will make it a box-office attraction. The principals are John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett, and Brandon Hurst. "Love and Learn" — Paramount. Esther Ralston clever in the role of a girl who gets into amusing situations to distract her parents sufficiently to avoid a divorce. Lane Chandler is the hero. "Love Me and the World Is Mine" — Universal. Moderately interesting picture of Vienna before the war. Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry and Betty Compson. "Loves of Carmen" — Fox. Robust and entertaining, but not much like the original "Carmen." Dolores del Rio is the ragamuffin gypsy heroine, Don Alvarado her soldier lover, and Victor McLaglen the toreador who comes between them. "Man Pov/er" — Paramount. Richard Dix in implausible but interesting tale of a tramp who arrives in a small town, wins an heiress — Mary Brian — and saves the town from a bursting dam. "Mockery" — Metro-Goldwyn. Lon Chaney in realistic film of dull-witted Russian peasant whose doglike devotion to a countess leads to his death at the hands of the bolsheviks. Barbara Bedford and Ricardo Cortez. .... "Mother Machree"— Fox. Maudlin film of a sacrificing Irish mother who does all for her son. Belle Bennett, Neil Hamilton, and Constance Howard. "My Best Girl"— United Artists. Mary Pickford's latest, and one of her best. Tale of stock girl in the 5-and-10 who