Picture Show Magazine with 1923 Contents Listing

Originally published by The Amalgamated Press beginning in 1919, Picture Show Magazine, a British publication, was then issued by Odham's Press from the early 1930's through 1960. Picture Show merged with Film Pictorial Magazine in 1939. Despite its British origins, Picture Show dedicated much of its space to American films and stars.

This page shows the covers and includes the contents of a number of issues I had acquired in 2005. They all range between November 1923 through March 1924.

During this period Picture Show Magazine was 24 pages, printed on newsprint and registered as a newspaper. Bare bones, one-color, these early issues of Picture Show did offer one frill inside; the Art Supplement. The Picture Show Art Supplement was printed on a slightly higher quality paper -- almost slick in appearance compared to the rest of the flat issue. The Art Supplement was found in the middle of the issue, easily removed and thus scarce, and usually featured one or two portraits along with several smaller scene photos from a recent film release.

Picture Show Magazine, Nov. 1923-Mar. 1924

Picture Show Magazine, November 10, 1923:

• On the Cover: Fay Compton - Charlie Chaplin - Douglas Fairbanks - Rudolph Valentino - Elinor Glyn
• Inside this issue:
• "Picture Show Chat" has a photo of Theodore Roberts as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"
• "Elinor Glyn's Letter from Hollywood" is a page with small photos of Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, and Lionel Barrymore
• "The Extra Girl" by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
• "Mary Pickford Grows Up" has a half-page photo of Pickford
• Page 10 and 15 (which are the center of the issue because of the missing supplement) includes "Pleasing the Modern Man" by Fay Compton with photo, and at the bottom of the page 4 photos of Anna Q. Nilsson getting her hair cut for "Ponjola"
• "Heroes of the Street" is a short story
• "Picture Show Night at the Wimbledon Palais de Danse" includes small photos of 28 stars
• "The Expressions of Charles Hutchison" is a single-page with a slightly larger photo of Hutchison surrounded by several smaller pics of him acting out various expressions
• "Fashions & Fancies in Filmland" includes "my Favourite Dish" recipe with small pic of Mary Alden, "Dulcy, the Beautiful" comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
• "Ask the Picture Show" has small pics of Georges Carpentier, Alice Terry, Douglas Fairbanks, Eddy Polo

Picture Show Magazine, November 17, 1923:

• On the Cover: The Prince of Wales
• Inside this issue:
• "Picture Show Chat" has photos of Barbara La Marr and Mae Murray
• "Elinor Glyn's Letters from Hollywood" has photos of Charlie Chaplin directing Carl Miller, Edna Purviance with Adolphe Menjou in "A Woman of Paris"
• "The Extra Girl" by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
• "Striking Scenes from this Week's Picture Plays" is one page of photos including: Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess in "Fury", Enid Bennett and Willard Mack in "Your Friend and Mine", Katherine MacDonald in "The Woman's Side", Wesley Barry in "Heroes of the Street", Clara Kimball Young in "Cordelia the Magnificent", Gladys Walton in "The Guttersnipe", and Betty Compson, Bert Lytell and Theodore Kosloff in "To Have and To Hold"
• "Our Prince Helps British Pictures" has an article and photo of the Prince of Wales, with British players also pictured: Isobel Elsom, James Knight, Gladys Cooper, Hilda Bayley, Clive Brook, and Flora Le Breton
• Art Supplement: Single page shows Owen Nares and Gladys Jennings, 2-pages in center titled "New British Productions," last single page also consists of "New British Productions"
• Short Story: "Beautiful Kitty"
• "The Expressions of Claire Windsor" is a single-page with a photo of Windsor in the middle of the page and several smaller pics of her acting out various expressions
• "The Girl Ramon Novarro Would Like to Marry -- The Popular Leading Man Confesses to a Great Admiration for Lillian Gish" with half-page photo of Novarro
• "Fashions & Fancies in Filmland" includes "Dulcy, the Beautiful" comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
• Back page is "Ask the Picture Show" with a small pic of Isobel Elsom

Picture Show Magazine, November 24, 1923:

• On the Cover: Erich Von Stroheim - Rudolph Valentino - Madge Kennedy - Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks
• Inside this issue:
• "Picture Show Chat" has photos of Pauline Starke, Ralph Lewis, Gloria Swanson, a two of Dale Fuller
• "Tortured, Burned and Hanged -- Yet Still Alive! Matheson Lang Describes His Terrifying Fate in 'The Wandering Jew' and 'Guy Fawkes" with three pics
• "The Extra Girl" by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
• "Gossip About the British Players" includes small pics of Stewart Rome, Peter Dear, John Stuart, and Malvina Longfellow
• "Doug's Son" has a half-page photo of 13-year-old Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Page 10 and 15 (which are the center of the issue because of the missing supplement) includes 7 photos: Madge Bellamy, Buster Keaton and Constance Talmadge with sone Joseph, Jack Perrin - Francis Ford - Peggy O'Day in "The Fighting Skipper", Barbara La Marr and others in a scene, Crauford Kent in "The Self-Made Wife", Ruth Roland, Hilda Bayley and Vanni Marcoux
• "The Isle of Lost Ships" is a short story with photos of Milton Sills and Anna Q. Nilsson
• "The Expressions of Jack Hoxie" is a single-page with a slightly larger photo of Hoxie surrounded by several smaller pics of him acting out various expressions
• "Faults That Help to Make Fortunes" includes pics of Mary Pickford, Viola Dana, Bull Montana, Colleen Moore, and Marguerite De La Motte
• "Fashions & Fancies in Filmland" includes "My Favourite Dish" recipe with small pic of Violet Hopson, "Dulcy, the Beautiful" comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
• "Ask the Picture Show" has small pics of Pauline Frederick, Constance Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee

Picture Show Magazine, December 8, 1923:

• Inside this issue:
• "Picture Show Chat" has photos of Gloria Swanson and Patsy Ruth Miller
• Virginia Brown Faire is one page with 5 photos of Faire including with Leonard Clapham in "The Scarlet Rider", with Thomas Holding in "Without Benefit of Clergy", with Evelyn Selbie in "Omar the Tentmaker", plus another scene from "Omar the Tentmaker" and a portrait
• "The Extra Girl" by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
• "The Expressions of Matt Moore" is a single-page with a larger photo of Moore and then several smaller pics of him acting out various expressions
• "Christmas Hints" includes small pics of Ruth Roland, Dorothy Gish, Rudolph Valentino, Constance Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, and Shirley Mason
• "Getting Ready for Xmas" has Christmas photos of Shirley Mason, William Farnum, Pauline Frederick, Wesley Barry, Doris Pawn and Barbara La Marr, Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven
• Art Supplement: Single page shows Reginald Denny with wife and daughter on Christmas morning, 2-pages in center titled "Baby Peggy's Message to Santa Claus," last single page is titled "Striking Scenes from this Week's Picture Plays" and includes several smaller pics: Gladys Walton in "The Love Letter", Pola Negri in "Mad Love", Agnes Ayres and Richard Dix in "Racing Hearts", John Gilbert, Carmel Myers and William Lawrence in "The Love Gambler", Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson and Frank Campeau in "The Isle of Lost Ships", and Kenneth Harlan and Colleen Moore in "April Showers"
• Short Story: "Mighty Lak' a Rose"
• "Bill Hart Returns" with half-page photo of William S. Hart
• "Gossip about British Players" is a single page that includes small pics of Isobel Elsom, Gerlad Ames, Ivor Novello, Ben Field, and some film scenes.
• "Fashions & Fancies in Filmland" includes a recipe with small pic of Marjorie Hume, and "Dulcy, the Beautiful" comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
• "Ask the Picture Show" is a page of questions from readers with answers and very small pics of Alma Taylor, Nazimova, and Ruth Roland

Picture Show Magazine, December 15, 1923:

• On the Cover: Ronald Colman and Lillian Gish - George K. Arthur - Flora Le Breton - Joan Morgan
• Inside this issue:
• "Picture Show Chat" has photos of Charles Chaplin, producer Fred Leroy Granville with wife Peggy Hyland, Peggy Hathaway, Thomas Meighan
• "The Expressions of Elaine Hammerstein" is a single-page with a slightly larger photo of Hammerstein surrounded by several smaller pics of her acting out various expressions
• "Why Don't We Keep Them Here?" is cover story with pics of Ivor Novello, Margery Meadows, Ruby Miller, Walter Ford, Hayford Hobbs
• "The Extra Girl" by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
• 4 photos taking up about 2/3's of a page of Tom Mix
• Page 10 and 15 (which are the center of the issue because of the missing supplement) is divided into 4 with a large photo and equal size text for each of the following "Chief Characters in 'Vanity Fair'": George Walsh - Mabel Ballin - Harrison Ford - Eleanor Boardman
• "Back Home and Broke" is a short story
• "Gossip About British Players" includes small pics of George K. Arthur, Nina Vanna, Bunty Fosse, Cecil Hepworth, and a slightly larger shot of Carlyle Blackwell in "The Beloved Vagabond"
• "How I Learned to Look a Lion in the Eye" is text with a half-page photo of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson
• "Fashions & Fancies in Filmland" includes "My Favourite Dish" recipe with small pic of Betty Compson, "Dulcy, the Beautiful" comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
• A page of photos, 5 in all, includes: Thomas Meighan, Fred Niblo with Enid Bennett, Gladys Cooper, Bert Lytell dueling with Lew Cody in "The Prisoner of Zenda", and Jack Cooper with little Jackie Lucas
• "Ask the Picture Show" has small pics of Marjorie Hume, Alice Terry, Gloria Swanson, Alice Joyce, Stewart Rome

Picture Show Magazine, December 22, 1923:

• On the Cover: Erich Von Stroheim - Mary Philbin - Zasu Pitts
• Inside this issue:
• "Picture Show Chat" has a photos of Betty Ross Clarke
• "The Power of the Producer" has photos of D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, and Rudolph Valentino
• "The Extra Girl" by Edgar Wallace is part of a serialized story
• "The Expressions of House Peters" is a single-page with a photo of Peters in the middle of the page and several smaller pics of him acting out various expressions
• "Film Favourites on the British Screen" features Mary Dibley with three pics
• Page 10 and 15 (which are the center of the issue if you remove the supplement) include several photos including Lew Cody and Nita Naldi with King Tut's statue in "Lawful Larceny", Leah Baird, Marion Davies in "Adam and Eva", George Cooper producer of "Claude Duval" with star Nigel Barrie, Mabel and Hugo Ballin, Constance Talmadge in "The Dangerous Maid", Eleanor Boardman with her pet rabbits
• Art Supplement: Single page shows "Married Sweethearts" Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, 2-pages in center has 10 photos from "Omar the Tentmaker" with Virginia Brown Faire, Guy Bates Post, Noah Beery, Douglas Gerrard, and Nigel de Brulier, last single page consists of 6 pics of "Striking Scenes from this week's Picture Plays" including Gloria Swanson with Antonio Moreno in "My American Wife," Dustin Farnum in "While Justice Waits," Alfred Lunt and Mimi Palmeri in "The Ragged Edge," Tibor Lubinsky
• Short Story: "Her Social Value"
• "Children's Funny Sayings" with half-page photo of Ivy Duke
• "Gossip About British Players" is a page of text with small pics of John Stuart, Mildred Evelyn, Rex Davis, and Pauline Peters
• "Why I Want to Be a Stunt Actress" has a photo of Gladys Cooper, one of Ivor Novello, and another of them together
• "Fashions & Fancies in Filmland" includes "My Favourite Dish" recipe with small pic of Pola Negri, and "Dulcy, the Beautiful" comic strip at bottom of page credited as being by Constance Talmadge with cartoons by Lauren Stout
• Back page is "Ask the Picture Show" with small pics of Violet Hopson, Monte Blue, Mary Pickford and Alice Terry