THE EDITOR'S PAGE
What are the Ten Best
Pictures Ever Made?
SCREENLAND is interested in finding out the ten best motion picture plays ever made.
To secure an accurate idea of the real ten milestones of the silver-sheet, SCREENLAND has asked the foremost authorities in motion pictures in America to name their ideal list.
The next issue of SCREENLAND will present the results of this canvass—together, with a tabulated list of the ten photoplays receiving the most votes.
Watch the November issue!
We Want YOU To
Write For Screenland
SCREENLAND realizes that it must be in direct touch with its readers.
It must have the pulse of the public.
To reflect this accurately, SCREENLAND wants you to write for its columns.
Beginning with an early issue, SCREENLAND will conduct a department consisting of the best contributions of its readers. Every contributor will be paid for his work—according to the importance of the contribution and its individual merit.
But contributions must be interesting and they must be constructive—besides having ideas. Don't be afraid to say what you think about the screen and its players—in your own way.
Address your letters to THE EDITOR'S LETTER BOX, SCREENLAND, 119 West 40th Street, New York City.
What do you think of this issue of Screenland?
In it you will find a number of writers new to Screenland.
Delight Evans, for instance. One of the cleverest—and youngest—writers in the whole field of motion pictures.
Robert E. Sherwood, associate editor of Life and motion picture editor of The New York Herald.
Harriette Underbill, motion picture editor of The New York Tribune and a sparkling writer on the photoplay.
Grace Kingsley, the motion picture editor of The Los Angeles Times and one of the best informed authorities on motion pictures in the very capitol of picturedom.
Gladys Hall, the versatile and unusual writer on the silent drama and the people behind the screen.
These writers will continue to contribute to Screenland. And—to this list—will be added the best contributors on motion picture topics in America. Such writers as Helen Starr, Alma Whitaker and Eunice Marshall will continue to contribute to Screenland.
Screenland is to be the young magazine of the screen—fearless and unafraid, untrammeled by precedent and radical in its ideas about the world of celluloid. With the best writers in all filmdom contributing to its columns, Screenland will be the one magazine of personality in the entire field of motion picture magazines.
Screenland points with especial pride to its department of reviews, conducted by Frederick James Smith, the leading authority on the cinema in America today. Mr. Smith, who is also the editor of Screenland, shaping its policies, was managing editor of Photoplay until he resigned to accept the editorship of Screenland.
You can count upon frank and unbiased criticisms from Mr. Smith. Better turn now to his review of the past screen year in this issue.
Pictorially Screenland will be the most attractive magazine of the films. The foremost photographers in this country are now taking pictures exclusively for its pages.
This month you will find such distinguished art contributors as Everett Shinn, John Held, Jr., and Wynn among the pages of Screenland. The next issue will find such famous artists as Oscar Frederick Howard and Ray Van Buren added to the list.
Screenland's covers stand alone. The greatest cover artist in America is making them—Rolf Armstrong.
In brief, the new Screenland will be built upon the theory that the motion picture needs a magazine of youth. The field is crowded with Merton magazines, with their purring, bla-a-a interviews and cheese-cake criticisms. Screenland believes that the time has come for a magazine to treat of the screen lightly, through the eyes of youth.
There will be nothing old, antiquated or ponderous about the new Screenland. It will be a live magazine of personality dealing with live personalities in the one walk of life, in which the romantic lure of the gypsy still remains.
Above all, Screenland will strive for humor. It will direct its appeal to the sophisticated. It will be vigorous, young and unafraid of anything or anybody.
You'll enjoy the movies more if you read Screenland.
