Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 6

The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication PHOTOPLAY FREDERICK JAMES SMITH MANAGING EDITOR MARK LARKIN WESTERN EDITOR Contents For November 1929 Vol. XXXVI James R. Quirk EDITOR AND PUBLISHER No. 6
The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication PHOTOPLAY FREDERICK JAMES SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
MARK LARKIN
WESTERN EDITOR
Contents For November 1929
Vol. XXXVI
James R. Quirk
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
No. 6


The High-Lights of This Issue

Cover Design Earl Christy
Janet Gaynor—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
Soup, Salad and Dessert 13
You'll Find Them All in Photoplay's Cook Book
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
Exposing the Hollywood Orgy Leonard Hall 29
Mother Goes Stepping and Comes Home Yawning
Slipping the Marriage Noose Janet French 30
"I Will" Is Not in Their Vocabularies
Gloria's New Clothes and Coiffure 32
Chic Is the Keynote
Filmland's Royal Family (Second Edition) Frances Hughes 37
Joan and Doug. Jr., Are Paddling Their Own Canoe
Why Sheiks Go Wrong (Fiction Story) Grace Mack 38
A Real Life Episode in the Talkies
He Threw Away a Million Herbert Howe 41
The Story of a Man Hollywood Couldn't Buy
Ghostly Studios of Yesterday Marquis Busby 42
A Backward Glance at Dream Workshops
Another Hollywood Racket Katherine Albert 45
There's More Than One Way They Break In
Gossip of All the Studios Cal York 46
What the Film Folk Are Doing and Saying
How Bachelors Manage Their Homes Katherine Albert 50
Lessons in Living from the Screen's Unmarried Men
The Shadow Stage 52
Reviews of the Latest Silent and Sound Pictures
Hollywood Leads Paris in Fashions Katherine Albert 56
And Creates the Rage of the Boulevards
Reeling Around Leonard Hall 58
Tidbits Served with a Dash of Spice
The Littlest Rebel in Hollywood Elinor Corbin 63
The Story of Nancy Carroll
Hollywood High-Hat (Fiction Story) Stewart Robertson 64
In This Case It Was Lowered
The Birth of the Theme Song Maurice Fenton 66
Photoplay's Record Review Department
The Amateur Movie Contest Prizes Frederick James Smith 67
Winners of Photoplay's $2,000 in Awards
Four Babes in the Hollywoods Cal York 68
Brief Sketches of Alexander Gray, Vivienne Segal, Catherine Dale Owen and Morgan Farley
These New Faces 72
Who They Are and What They Look Like
Questions and Answers The Answer Man 82
What You Want to Know About Films and Film Folk
Casts of Current Photoplays 140


Contents (not listed in original)

  • New Pictures (a selection of photographs of new and upcoming stars).
  • 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
Big Revue, The—All-Star 117
Big Time—Fox 53
College Coquette, The—Columbia 117
Dark Skies—Biltmore 117
Drake Case, The—Universal 117
Fast Company—Paramount 55
Frozen Justice—Fox 55
Girl from Havana, The—Fox 118
Gold Diggers of Broadway—Warners 54
Happy Days—M-G-M 55
Hard to Get—First National 54
Her Private Affair—Pathe 53
Hungarian Rhapsody—UFA-Paramount 117
Illusion—Paramount 54
In Old California—Audible Film Corp 118
Kibitzer—Paramount 52
Light Fingers—Columbia 118
Love Doctor, The—Parmount 55
Lucky in Love—Pathe 118
Madonna of Avenua A—Warners 117
Marianne—M-G-M 52
New York Nights—United Artists 54
Night Club—Paramount 117
Oh, Yeah!—Pathe 118
Prince and the Dancer, The—World Wide 117
Pusher-In-The-Face—Paramount 117
Richthofen: The Red Knight of the Air—F. P. G. Production 117
Rio Rita—RKO 52
Silver King, The—British 117
Taming of the Shrew—United Artists 52
They Had to See Paris—Fox 6
Thirteenth Chair, The—M-G-M 54
This Mad World—M-G-M 55
Three Live Ghosts—United Artists 55
Tonight at Twelve—Universal 54
Wrecker, The—Tiffany-Stahl 117
Why Leave Home?—Fox 117