Word: photoplay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March Photoplay (monthly) printed an article about Funnyman Arbuckle called "Just Let Me Work," quoted the chief Arbuckle ambition: "I want to go back to the screen. I think I can entertain and gladden the people. . . ." Editor James R. Quirk of Photoplay gave a radio talk, asked his listeners whether they thought Funnyman Arbuckle should be permitted to return to the screen under his own name. Last week, in the July Photoplay James R. Quirk gave the answer. He had received 3,000 letters from people who thought Arbuckle should be permitted to resume cinemacting; among the letter-writers...
Cecil Blount De Mille, photoplay producer . . . Litt.D...
Last week Editor-elect Arthur H. Samuels journeyed to California to hear Publisher William Randolph Hearst's wishes for Smart Set's next transformation. Publisher Hearst has bought back Smart Set after a two-year interim in which James R. Quirk, owner of successful Photoplay, failed to popularize it as "the young women's magazine." From 1924 to 1928 Mr. Hearst put Smart Set through its "confession" phase. Now he thinks it might be made into a sophisticated smart-chart for women in and about Manhattan...
Reviews submitted in competition for the prize of $10 to be given for the best review of this photoplay must be handed in at the CRIMSON building by 5 o'clock Monday afternoon...