Screen Mirror (Jun 1930 - Mar 1931)

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Thanks for the Title I have just read my first copy of “Screen Mirror,” and I think it is the best printed movie magazine I have ever seen— and that's plenty! But why in the name of the seven-livered joss houses of Hong Kong do you have so many gloomy subjects? Do you think I want a fan mag' azine that’s dripping blood? Every time I turned a page I felt as though somebody had taken a punch at my chin. Wham! Wham! Wham! Here s one for your chin. If you want to know what I think, you spoiled a nice little magazine with too much blood and thun der. Take THAT! Clifford Marks Dirty Remarques For Pete’s sake let the late war rest in peace. Every magazine and movie house is flooded with the stuff. Try being All Quiet yourself about the Western Front. Morris Kane What ails these Dutchmen you write about? What do you mean, “Afraid to Remember”? Stuff like “All Quiet on the Western Front" gives me a pain. I was in the great mud baths of 1917, and I’m not afraid to remember anything! .... Chris Sorenson • Hamburgher Stakes When “The Show World Moves On,” and the “Big Parade of Prosperity” comes to town, would you mind billing them for Pomona a couple weeks? I’ve been eating hash since last August, waiting for the prosperous parade you’re howling about — and I haven’t even heard the echo of a piccolo. Congrats on a nifty lil mag John York • FIFI DORSA.T brought the flavor of French comedy to the American screen when she made "Hot for Paris" with Fox. Stone “Casting Day” My daughter brought home one of your magazines from the theatre, and carelessly left it lying in my study. Upon the whole, it seems healthy in spirit. However, I was distressed to read “Casting Day in Heaven,” a very facetious article, I presume, but hardly of an order to inspire the best sentiments in our youth. It was even more unfortunate to see that the article came from the pen of a young woman Rev. Hugh McMannii More Thought for Food I like your magazine. Pictorially it is perfect. But for Sinema's uke, don't start a lotta insipid interviews about what the stars eat for breakfast May Marion Not So Hot Being somewhat of a scientific man myself, I hope you will excuse me for demurring with your predictions anent television. It is true technical experiments have gone far, but your hopes seem somewhat sanguine to me Frank W. Halsey • Absolutely, Mr. Kennedy! I am writing to you as I do to the editor of every magazine which comes to my attention, because I believe that at this time it is the solemn duty of every thinking man to put himself on record as opposed to the 1 8th Amendment, and to foster the Anti Enforcement Society. Do you want repeal, or are you willmg to let the frightful conditions now existing to continue? Does your brain tell you prohibition is wrong, or are you cowering under the lash of the Anti-Saloon League? Are you going to advise your readers to write their congressmen advising repeal of this dastardly