Word: photoplays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PHOTOPLAY IDEAS-ORIGINAL PLOTS ARE WORTH MONEY...
...DEMAND FOR PHOTOPLAY TALKING PICTURE & MAGAZINE STORIES...
Seventeen years ago in Chicago an attractive, blue-eyed miss named Katherine Dougherty got a $15-a-week job as assistant bookkeeper for a skimpy little pamphlet called Photoplay. Last week Miss Dougherty went from the Chicago to the Manhattan office of Photoplay to succeed the late James R. Quirk as president & publisher. In the interim she had folded circulars, addressed envelopes, read manuscripts, worked 40 Sundays a year for the first five years. She is still attractive and young looking. Photoplay is no longer a pamphlet but the most dignified, most richly mounted of cinema "fan" magazines (circulation...
Died. James R. Quirk, 48, editor & publisher of Photoplay, onetime (1928-30) publisher of Smart Set; of bronchial pneumonia and heart disease; in Hollywood...
...cinema's oldtime fat funnyman, now director of comedies under the name of "William Goodrich" for Educational Films Corp.; and Addie McPhail, 24, cinemactress. Funnyman Arbuckle left the screen ten years ago after being acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Cinemactress Virginia Rappe. Last month readers of Photoplay magazine voted for his return (TIME, June...