The Shadow Stage

A blog dedicated entirely to magazines mostly about films and occasionally radio and music. My niche is the 1910s and 1920s, but I do jump around at times. Thank you to all who have digitized and shared these treasures!

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Alice Brady in Motion Picture Magazine, January 1919. Internet Archive.

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Betty Howe is a daughter of Manhattan, having made her debut on this topsy-turvy stage of life in that city in the year 1895. She was educated at Chappaqua, N. Y., and came to the shadow stage via Vitagraph where her most notable work was done in “The Alibi.” Then she played a part in the Beatrice Fairfax serial. Miss Howe is five feet tall and has black eyes and hair.

Photoplay, December 1916. Internet Archive.

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Evelyn Nesbit has entered pictures with a determination to succeed—hugely

Motion Picture Magazine, January 1919. Internet Archive.

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Motion Picture, December 1922

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An amazing array of swimsuits in the September 1928 issue of Photoplay, especially the suit worn by Lilyan Tashman (lower right corner) with two geese on it, by Howard Greer. And that’s an early example (Patricia Avery, upper left) of someone wearing a two-piece suit!

(source: archive.org)

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Advertisement for Marked Men, a lost film starring Harry Carey. Moving Picture World, March 20, 1920. Internet Archive.

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Gloria Swanson in Cine-Mundial, April 1922. Internet Archive.

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With this issue the Motion Picture Magazine ends its sixth year and begins its seventh. It was the first in the field and it is still first in circulation and therefore first in public favor. It thanks its readers and patrons most cordially, and wishes them all A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.

Motion Picture Magazine, January 1917. Internet Archive.

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Advertisement for Pagan Love, starring Togo Yamamoto and Mabel Ballin, with art by Gablik Gise. A copy of the film, a melodrama of the ill-fated romance between a man from Chinatown and a blind woman, exists today.

Exhibitors Herald, January 1, 1921. Internet Archive.

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This Star Was Not a Comet

In this is Ethel Clayton different: She was neither "discovered" and "pushed" into success by some benevolent director nor was she "pulled" into screen popularity from the stage. Both the pull and the push were furnished by Ethel herself

Picture-Play Magazine, November 1917. Internet Archive.

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Cover of The Moving Picture Weekly featuring Gladys Walton. September 10, 1921. Internet Archive.

Anyone recognize the artist’s signature?

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Dorothy Dalton makes the fourth of the former Ince-Triangle stars who has chosen to sever her connections with the Triangle Culver City plant and re-join her former director general, Thomas H. Ince, who is now affiliated with Paramount. Ince now has under his banner William S. Hart, Charlie Ray, Enid Bennett, and Dorothy Dalton, valuable assets to Paramount.

Picture-Play Magazine, November 1917. Internet Archive.

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Wally Exercises with a Pair of Bell(e)s

Of course they’re not the “dumb” kind, but all hands will concede that they are some belles. On the right of the smiling Mr. Reid is Eileen Percy, Douglas Fairbanks’ leading lady; and on his left arm, Miss Anita Loos, Mr. Fairbanks’ high-salaried authoress.

Photoplay, August 1917. Internet Archive.

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Motion Picture Classic, December 1923. Internet Archive.

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When Mary Pickford was asked to write her Christmas message to the fans, she handed in the above pictures. "Here's all I've got to say," she said.

The Photo-Play Journal, December 1917. Internet Archive.

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Advertisement for Marion Davies in Getting Mary Married, her earliest surviving film. Motion Picture News, April 26, 1919. Internet Archive.

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The tagline of an ad for the lurid drama As a Man Thinks, a copy of which exists today. Leading lady Leah Baird has some explaining to do to.

Motion Picture News, April 26, 1919. Internet Archive.