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1923-12-22 Picture Show Movie Magazine Contents

1923/12/22 —

On the Cover: Erich Von Stroheim – Mary Philbin – Zasu Pitts

24 pages including Art Supplement.

Inside this issue contains articles and photos about and of:

  • “Picture Show Chat” has a photos of Betty Ross Clarke
  • “The Power of the Producer” has photos of D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, and Rudolph Valentino
  • “The Extra Girl” by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
  • “The Expressions of House Peters” is a single-page with a photo of Peters in the middle of the page and several smaller pics of him acting out various expressions
  • “Film Favourites on the British Screen” features Mary Dibley with three pics
  • Page 10 and 15 (which are the center of the issue if you remove the supplement) include several photos including Lew Cody and Nita Naldi with King Tut’s statue in “Lawful Larceny”, Leah Baird, Marion Davies in “Adam and Eva”, George Cooper producer of “Claude Duval” with star Nigel Barrie, Mabel and Hugo Ballin, Constance Talmadge in “The Dangerous Maid”, Eleanor Boardman with her pet rabbits
  • Art Supplement: Single page shows “Married Sweethearts” Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, 2-pages in center has 10 photos from “Omar the Tentmaker” with Virginia Brown Faire, Guy Bates Post, Noah Beery, Douglas Gerrard, and Nigel de Brulier, last single page consists of 6 pics of “Striking Scenes from this week’s Picture Plays” including Gloria Swanson with Antonio Moreno in “My American Wife,” Dustin Farnum in “While Justice Waits,” Alfred Lunt and Mimi Palmeri in “The Ragged Edge,” Tibor Lubinsky
  • Short Story: “Her Social Value”
  • “Children’s Funny Sayings” with half-page photo of Ivy Duke
  • “Gossip About British Players” is a page of text with small pics of John Stuart, Mildred Evelyn, Rex Davis, and Pauline Peters
  • “Why I Want to Be a Stunt Actress” has a photo of Gladys Cooper, one of Ivor Novello, and another of them together
  • “Fashions & Fancies in Filmland” includes “My Favourite Dish” recipe with small pic of Pola Negri, and “Dulcy, the Beautiful” comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
  • Back page is “Ask the Picture Show” with small pics of Violet Hopson, Monte Blue, Mary Pickford and Alice Terry