Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1925)

JANUARY 1925 Picture s and Pichjre pver 81 you'd have departed this life long ago. Thing that out ! (1) Dorothy and Lillian are both 5 ft. in height; Anna Q. Nilsson is 5 ft. 7 ins. and so is Dick Barthelmess. (2) Sorry, no casts in these columns. (3) Tom Mix is so well known that I think that letter will probably find its way to him, although the address was rather vague. (4) Send a postal exchange coupon (obtainable at any Post Office), with your letter. Muriel (Oswestry). — Thinks I'm "a wonderfully patient man." So do I, Muriel ! (1) I've forwarded your letter to Pearl. K. Hall (Beeston). — You must be almost as clever as I am. (1) Fred Thompson was the hero in Just Around the Corner — not Carl Brissen. Carl is a stage star. (2) It must have been Reginald Denny's double you saw at Bournemouth. Reg hasn't been over here — his wife deputised for him. K. B. L. J. (Brighton).— (1) Send your letters on to me, and I'll see that they're forwarded. (2) " Stills " are photos depicting scenes in a film. (3) Try Jury's Imperial Pictures, Ltd.. 19-21, Tower St., W.l. for stills from Scarampuche. Gray (Birmingham). — I'll do my best to get you some more photos of your favourite later on. (1) Conrad Nagel is married to Ruth Helms and has a little daughter. He has blue eyes and fair hair. (2) Pola Negri isn't married now. She lives in Los Angeles, and has recently become a naturalised American. Felix (Gloucester). — (1) Does it matter? He isn't anyway. His latest film is White Slippers. (2) Margaret Leahy isn't doing any more film work at present. Her picture, The Three Ages, went the round of the kinemas in the usual way. (3) Matheson's address is c/o StoU Studios, Cricklewood. He'll probably send you a photo if you ask nicely. No photo of me, though, Felix I'm too kind hearted to inflict such things upon my friends. Tizi (Birmingham). — (1) Annette Benson, Nina Yanna, Clive Brook and Warwick Ward were in The Mom-y Habit. (2) Art plate of Herbert Rawlinson appeared in Feb. 1Q22. (3) I can't tell you off-hand how many questions I've answered through PICTUREGOER, but if you really want to know you can take a look through the back numbers and count them up for yourself. Victoria (Reigate). — Letters forwardedN, As you seem to think me a " nice, kind / man," I suppose I shall have to live up to/ my reputation A New Arrival A welcome little stranger is the Baby Cine Projector which Pathe's have recently put on the market. It connects to an ordinary house electric installation and will project a clear 4 ft 4 in. by 3 ft. picture. The films, which are only | in. widt are supplied ready for immediate use, and a very wide show of Sport, Travel, Comedy, Drama, Natural History, etc., etc., are available. STICKY FINISHES (Continued from page 57.) Yes, and come to think of it, I was nicely hanged in Marshall Neilan's picture, Go and Get it. I died game, too ! Went to the gallows smoking a cigarette; lots of heroes couldn't do that! " And yet no audience ever appreciates the poor villain ! He is always ' Unwept ; unhonoured, and unsung.' He is despatched out of the story somehow, and that's all that matters !" A somewhat new note in the despatch of villains is struck in Betiveen Friends hy the pact which is arranged between the hero and villain. According to this agreement Norman Kerry, the false friend who has seduced the film wife of Lou Tellegen, agrees to commit suicide on a given date and at a certain hour to satisfy the hero's desire for vengeance. At the appointed moment, however, the hero repents his revengeful idea, and, by mental telepathy, prevents Kerry's self-imposed death. Kerry, not being a dyed-in-the-wool villain, and in a spirit of contrition, goes away out of the country leaving Tellegen to his newfound happiness. This leads one to remember, of course, that in despair of finding new ways of getting rid of their villains, some writers convert them. You and I have seen some wonderful conversions on the screen. Somehow, though, in the case of black-hearted scoundrels and crimehardened schemers, at any rate, these sudden regenerations are horribly unconvincing. One has a feeling that the viHain's blackness is being washed over with a thin coating of white which will rub off at the slightest friction. A short while ago scenario writers were very much smitten with the idea of sending women wrongdoers out into the desert to die as a means of getting them out of the way of the hero and heroine. The classic example of this, of course, is Bella Donna; and one must admit that the sight of beautiful Pola Negri stumbling out to her fate amidst a desert sand-storm surrounded by ravaging beasts of prey, left a far more vivid impression than the shooting, drowning or throttling finish meted out to so many male criminals. A very charming villainess is Betty Compson in The Woman with Four Faces. From being a crack safebreaker she is converted and seals her regeneration by assisting the " powers that be " in an organised raid on the opium traffic. And, of course, there are numberless instances of picturesque good-bad men who tire of their villainy and suddenly perform mighty deeds of heroism. William S. Hart loves playing such roles, and in his latest movie? he is a heroic villain after his own heart! k -^L J When "fiatoff!! WHEN you take off your hat, critical eyes will be turned in your direction. Can you meet them. 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