Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

Page scan 000314 from Screenland

Record Details:

Title:
Screenland
Date:
May–Oct 1927
Publisher:
[New York, Affiliated Magazines, etc.]
Volume:
Screenland (May–Oct 1927)
Leaf #:
000314
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Television broadcasting -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System 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:
Mid-range fan magazine. Ran from 1920 to 1952, at which point it changed its name to Screenland Plus TV-Land. Merged with Silver Screen in 1971 and ceased publication. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

ff Screen "n|he newspapers referred to it as "'The greatest galaxy of motion picture celebrities ever gathered in one place". Well, I guess that's true, for there were 199 of them and the writer, all feeding their more or less celebrated faces at one and the same time in the Grand Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel. As this was to end in a very serious business meeting the wives and husbands of the "■celebrities" weren't invited, but wishing to be seen with some one as good looking as my particular slave driver I had invited Irene Rich to be my banqueting side-kick. But, alas, I was denied the vanity of her reflected beauty, for we were separated at the door and seated according to numbers. Irene was placed at a table with several very plain men and I was sent to another one and drew for her substitute that great, abyssmal brute of the screen — Victor MacLaglen! Vic is a handsome egg in soup-and The others assigned — without any particular rhyme or reason — to "36" were Marc MacDermott, that fine character actor who began way back in the Edison days, Dorothy Farnum, one of the brightest scenario writers in the game, Ramon Novarro, as charmingly intelligent as he is good looking, and Adela Rogers St. Johns,, who writes so splendidly of the mummers of Movieland. Naturally we noted the pretty girls first, and after 18