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1923-12-15 Picture Show Movie Magazine Contents

1923/12/15 —

On the Cover: Ronald Colman and Lillian Gish – George K. Arthur – Flora Le Breton – Joan Morgan

24 pages but missing Art Supplement so actually 20-pages total.

Inside this issue contains articles and photos about and of:

  • “Picture Show Chat” has photos of Charles Chaplin, producer Fred Leroy Granville with wife Peggy Hyland, Peggy Hathaway, Thomas Meighan
  • “The Expressions of Elaine Hammerstein” is a single-page with a slightly larger photo of Hammerstein surrounded by several smaller pics of her acting out various expressions
  • “Why Don’t We Keep Them Here?” is cover story with pics of Ivor Novello, Margery Meadows, Ruby Miller, Walter Ford, Hayford Hobbs
  • “The Extra Girl” by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
  • 4 photos taking up about 2/3’s of a page of Tom Mix
  • Page 10 and 15 (which are the center of the issue because of the missing supplement) is divided into 4 with a large photo and equal size text for each of the following “Chief Characters in ‘Vanity Fair'”: George Walsh – Mabel Ballin – Harrison Ford – Eleanor Boardman
  • “Back Home and Broke” is a short story
  • “Gossip About British Players” includes small pics of George K. Arthur, Nina Vanna, Bunty Fosse, Cecil Hepworth, and a slightly larger shot of Carlyle Blackwell in “The Beloved Vagabond”
  • “How I Learned to Look a Lion in the Eye” is text with a half-page photo of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson
  • “Fashions & Fancies in Filmland” includes “My Favourite Dish” recipe with small pic of Betty Compson, “Dulcy, the Beautiful” comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
  • A page of photos, 5 in all, includes: Thomas Meighan, Fred Niblo with Enid Bennett, Gladys Cooper, Bert Lytell dueling with Lew Cody in “The Prisoner of Zenda”, and Jack Cooper with little Jackie Lucas
  • “Ask the Picture Show” has small pics of Marjorie Hume, Alice Terry, Gloria Swanson, Alice Joyce, Stewart Rome