The Green Book Magazine

From 1911 to the end of 1918 the magazine was edited by Ray Long, who also edited Red Book and Blue Book for Story-Press. Long left to become the editor of Cosmopolitan. Channing Pollock was the drama critic for the periodical. Note: The June 1916 edition Table of Contents page (available on the Internet Archive) is the first to show Ray Long as Editor. Similarly, the February 1919 edition Table of Contents page (also available on the Internet Archive) is the first to show Karl Edwin Harriman as Editor. ==Theater magazine==

The original magazine title was The Green Book Album, with the subtitle of "The Magazine of the Passing Show", and contained a section of photographs. The early issues also published novelizations of recent plays, biographies and essays. and in 1915 a newspaper reported that Green Book published an article on the method Irving Berlin used to write songs. Fiction By 1915 nearly half of the periodical’s content consisted of short stories or serialized novels. A 1918 issue of Motion Picture News states that Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail were serialized in the magazine before being published as books. In 1921 Dorothy Parker's story "The Rivals" appeared in the magazine. The 1921 film Midsummer Madness was based on the serialized story "His Friend and His Wife" and the 1920 Sessue Hayakawa film Li Ting Lang plot was based on Howard P. Rockey's 1916 story "Li Ting Lang, Chinese Gentleman." ==Women's magazine==

When motion pictures became more popular than live theater, sales of The Green Book issues dropped drastically, so it was changed to a magazine aimed at "career girls". The magazine ceased publication in 1921. ==References==