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#I1-25 - June 1937 “Cinema Arts” Magazine... Vol. 1, # 1 - $50.00 This folio-size magazine measures approx. 11.5” x 14”, and has 88 pages plus the covers. This is the PREMIER issue... of which there were only 3! The cover art, titled GARBO, is by Jaro Fabry. If I had to make a guess, the short life of this magazine was probably because there was too little advertising to support the extensive photographic format. Articles of interest include “The Worlds Latest Fine Art” by Rouben Mamoulian; “Maestro: Leopold Stokowski”; “Director’s Dilemma” - looks at the problems involved in the search for the principal actors to portray Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in “GONE WITH THE WIND”; “Hollywood Goes Broadway” - discusses major Hollywood actors who have also acted in Broadway plays; “The Current Cinema” - reviews such well know films as A Family Affair, Elephant Boy, and The Good Earth; “The Lady Known as Loy” - a full-page, full-color captioned photo by Warsaw; “A Star is Born” - is an in-depth review of the film, and includes 6 photos; “Four Aces” - is a comparison of directors... Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Capra, Clarence Brown and Mervyn LeRoy; “Sunday Night at Marion Davies” - a description of an evening’s festivities at the actress’s “Beach House” on Santa Monica Beach (pictures in one of the 6 photos; “Adventures in Interviewing” by Jim Tully - Hollywood’s most noted interviewer speaks about Cinemaland’s famous people he’s cornered; “The Prince and the Pauper” - a 3-page review of the Mark Twain classic, with 9 photos and a complete cast list; “Chorus Man Into Star” - a brief bio of Wallace Beery; “Captains Courageous” - a review of this Rudyard Kipling classic (6 photos); “I Met Him in Paris” - a look at this zany romance; “Lost Horizon” reviews the film that first took us to Shangri-La; “The Road Back” - this film about war shows German men returning after WWI, to find no Peace at home; “The Science of Seduction” is an article about Perfume; “Maker of Stars” is a close-up about Samuel Goldwyn; “Slave Ship” - a review; “Fashions From the Screen” - 6 pages of them; “A Most Fragile Line” - takes a critical look at the upward sweep of the youthful necks of 7 noted starlets... and more! The condition is VeryGood+, with bumping and rubbing at the corners and edges of the covers. I see a couple of corner creases and other small dings, a 1/2” tear at the bottom of the back cover, and a couple of 1/4” tears at the extremities of the spine. One interior page has two vertical creases. Otherwise, the interior is crisp, clean, tight, bright and complete!