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During the past few years, the Lampoon has published parodies of Photoplay, Fortune, and other nationally-known magazines. The editors of the Lampoon hoped to pay off part of the debt that has accumulated through the years by issuing these popular parodies, but the results were far from encouraging. The tax collector of Cambridge has served notice on Lampy that the taxes must be paid within a week, and it is under pressure of this demand that the proposition with the CRIMSON was renewed with added vigor...
...intrigue is not necessarily heavy-handed or vulgar in the movies, it is a very different genre from what goes under the name on the stage. "Pleasure Cruise" goes some way towards being a happy resolution of the difference; it has the scenic and technical advantages of the photoplay, without losing the grace and quiet effectiveness of the legitimate type...
...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...