Pictures and the Picturegoer (April - September 1915)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 500 :■: ENDING Sept. 25. OUR NEW FREE COMPETITION 1st PRIZE 2-PRIZE £10 £5 IO/£ 10 PRIZES oft 200 Handsome Consolation Prizes. CREENED STAR START TO-DAY! It costs nothing to enter ! We pive below the first set of pictures in our Players' Puzzles for Picturegocrs Competition — " Screened Stars." The Competition is quite' simple — and quite free. Below you will find six pictures representing the surnames (only) of well-known Picture Actresses andActors. What you have to do is to write, in the spaces provided, the surname you flunk each picture represents. Thus — take picture No. 1 in the first set -a pick and a ford. This represents the surname of the Famous Player— Mary Pickford. Fill in the solutions of the other pictures in a similar way. Do not send now — keep each set till the final set has appeared. A £10 note will be awarded to the, sender o_£ the most correct solutions. JB5 to the next, and 103 each to the next ten, and 203 Consolation Priz-s to the senders of fhe next best solutions in order of merit. You can send in as many sets as you like. Fill »u the first set now — and bear in mind, even if you cannot get all "the answers right, you may yet win the .£10 — and there are 200 Consolation Gifts. Mention "Screened Stars' to all 'your Picture-going friends. IT COSTS NOTHING TO ENTfJit! EXAMPLE:— PICKFORD. ~inn ENTRY Noil. FORM A.DDB1 ^ 1st Set. OUR CONFIDEXT I A L GUIDE -/ should mal APPLIED ROMANCE. The reputation of •Beauty comedies is great ana good, and we are glad to hear that two simile-reel Beauties are to be issued weekly. This film feature charming Neva Gerfaa, and concerns the artfulness of an anonymous love-letter writer and hi rapid me. — £>'• ■•hj. 989 /a • " . 7 . THE EVIL EVE. A Trilby-like plot, m which a hypnotist's crime is tracked down and exposed by another hypnotist. It i a TransAtlantic drama, and one of the strongest and strangest we have seen for some time. The glad eye is not in it compared with the evil one. Look out for the pesters, and when you strike one go in and see the film. — Lh'-' L SAVED BV HER HORSE. Everybody likes daredevil Tom Mix. In this picture he lias the support of '; Saltan," the almost human horse trained by Tom himself after month 0 patience. You caunot imagine a more natural ac-tor than " Saltan, and the way he gallops for assistance for his mistress, with her hat in his mouth, aud then scallop back and loosens her bonds, is nothing short of marvellous. —StU(jD,-a,„i.\.i> .27). THEIR OWN WAYS. -If you like the homely huuian picture, this is one. A young married couple, enthusiastic about the joy of living ina city, take the wife mother and father from their loved farm to "enjoy" city life. How "lost" and woebegone -mother and father are in the (to them 1 1u1nat11r.il atmosphere of the city, and how they dream about and long for their own quiet life, makea very charming picture. — Edison Drama. l.l.V. >•• (0 RATS OF SOCIETY There arc many novel effect iii this stirring detective story, and when we say it has been produced by the tines Company you will know it must bo good stuff. The 'League of Light nam great treasure coveted by the Band of Three. They adopt various schemes to obtain it. but fail Vcau-e Polar, the detective, is too smart for them. The fact that in the end the villains are defeated docs not detract from the attractiveness of a quickly-moving story. — GaunwntFilm Hire reels f. 7'. TEMPER.— The first film in which Henry B. Walthall. Essanay's new leading man. takes part. In this he is the tine, lovable youth with a violent temper inherited from his father, whom he kills whilst protecting his mother. All the shades of the varying emotions of anger and overwhelming grit'. are clearly portrayed by Mr. Walthall. He brings out the feeling with an intensity thai makes it real. Ruth Stonehouse takes the part of a girl just in her Uviis. and so clever is she in children's parts that no one would inumine she was older than the character -he represents. HIS NEW AUTOMOBILE. Kins B ureal in drama. In comedy he idelightful, and when .lane Gail plays with him the Comedy i brilliant indeed. In this film King is a salesman, risen to the heights ol owning a real automobile -One dollar down and the rest eventually. So he goes for a maiden trip into the country accompanied by sweetheart -lane. Nobody knows quite what happens, but when la-l seen the auto is merrily burning in the fork of a tree, whils; King and Jane limp sadly homeward-. the Dim, and you will likewise limp. home* w anls limp with laughter. Imp(trane-AUant\