Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 5

The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication PHOTOPLAY FREDERICK JAMES SMITH MANAGING EDITOR MARK LARKIN WESTERN EDITOR Contents For October 1929 Vol. XXXVI James R. Quirk EDITOR AND PUBLISHER No. 5
The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication PHOTOPLAY FREDERICK JAMES SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
MARK LARKIN
WESTERN EDITOR
Contents For October 1929
Vol. XXXVI
James R. Quirk
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
No. 5


The High-Lights of This Issue

Cover Design Earl Christy
Anita Page—Painted from Life
As We Go to Press 6
Last Minute News from East and West
Brief Reviews of Current Pictures 8
A Guide to Your Evening's Entertainment
Brickbats and Bouquets 10
The Voice of the Fan
For Autumn Appetites 13
Photoplay's Cook Book Tells How to Please Them
Friendly Advice on Girls' Problems Carolyn Van Wyck 16
Photoplay's Personal Service Department
Close-Ups and Long Shots James R. Quirk 27
The Editor Tells You What's What and Who Without Fear or Favor
Empty Hearted Lois Shirley 29
Clara Bow Is Engaged Again
They Must Suffer To Be Beautiful Katherine Albert 30
And Keep Their Fan Followings
The Herds of Hollywood Leonard Hall 35
It's Just Like Working in Any Other Factory
After Four Years Rosalind Shaffer 36
Is Bill Hart to Come Back?
The Films Go Baby Talk Helen Huston 39
Bu-lieve Helen Kane
That Sex Appeal Voice Marquis Busby 40
It's Ann Harding
The New Broadway Cal York 42
Otherwise Hollywood Boulevard
A Hollywood Promise (Fiction Story) Agnes Christine Johnston 44
And How It Was Kept
Gossip of All the Studios Cal York 46
What the Film Folk Are Doing and Saying
Phonoplay Wins—but Talkie Stays on Harriet Parsons 50
Announcing Winner in Photoplay's $500 Contest
Vamping With Sound Leonard Hall 51
The First Menace of the Talkies—Kay Francis
The Shadow Stage 52
Reviews of the Latest Silent and Sound Pictures
The Wisecracker Reveals Himself As told to Marquis Busby 56
William Haines Tells of His Life in Hollywood
Temperamental? Yes! What of It? Katherine Albert 58
But a Lot of It's Not True
Sing a Soothin' Song (Fiction Story) Stewart Robertson 60
The Romance of a Voice Doubler
How They Manage Their Homes Alma Whitaker 62
Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston Built Most of Theirs
The Weigh of All Flesh Harriet Parsons 64
Or the Eighteen Day Diet
Amateur Movies Frederick James Smith 65
Prize Contest Announcement
Reeling Around Leonard Hall 66
Tidbits Served with a Dash of Spice
Photoplay's Fall Style Section 75
What Film Favorites Are Wearing
These New Faces 90
Who They Are and What They Look Like
Questions and Answers The Answer Man 92
What You Want to Know About Films and Film Folk
Music of the Films 100
Photoplay's New Record Review Department
Casts of Current Photoplays 150


Contents (not listed in original)

  • There are several Miscellaneous small items (usually a captioned photograph) used to fill space.

Photoplays Reviewed in the Shadow Stage This Issue

Save this magazine―Refer to the criticisms before you pick out your evening's entertainment. Make this your reference list.

Page
Awful Truth, The―Pathe. 54
Black Magic―Fox 107
Chasing Through Europe―Fox 107
Cock Eyed World, The―Fox 52
Dynamite―M.-G.-M. 53
Girl in the Glass Cage, The―First National 107
Half Marriage―RKO 107
Hallelujah―M.-G.-M. 53
Hoofbeats of Vengeance―Universal 107
Kempy―M.-G.-M. 55
Kitty―World Wide 107
Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The―M.-G.-M. 52
Lucky Larkin―Universal 107
Lucky Star―Fox 52
Melody Lane―Universal 107
Oppressed, The―Wm. Elliott Production 107
Piccadilly―World Wide. 54
Pleasure Crazed―Fox 55
River of Romance―Paramount 55
Sailor's Holiday-Pathe 107
Salute―Fox 107
Smiling Irish Eyes―First National 107
Speedway―M.-G.-M. 55
Street Girl―RKO 54
Trial Marriage―Columbia 107
Twin Beds―First National 54
Unholy Night, The―M.-G.-M. 54
Very Idea, The―RKO 107
Virginian, The―Paramount 53
Wagon-Master, The―Universal 107
Why Bring That Up?―Paramount 55
Woman Trap―Paramount 54
Wonder of Women―M.-G.-M. 55