Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

MCTURKS AND THE PICTUREGOER i!0 Week 3 nding OCT. 2, I915 OUR NEW FREE COMPETITION Ist PRIZE 2PRIZE £10 £5 10L 10 PRIZES ofi 200 Handsome Consolation Prizes. START TO-DAY! It costs nothing to enter! Wo give below the second set of pictures in our Players' Puzzles for Picturegocrs Competition 'i 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 and Actors. WhaCyou have" to do"is to write, ifi the "spaces" provided, tlie surname you think each picture represents. 'Thus —take picture No. 1 in the first set -a pick and a fordTins represented the surname of the Paraous Player.— IVtarj Pickiortl.. Eill.in.the solutions of the! other pictures in a similar way. Do not send now — keep each set till the final set haappeared. A £10 note will be awarded to the sender of the most correct solutions, .£5 to the next, and 103. each to the next ten. and 200 Consolation Prizes to the senders of the next best solutions in order of merit. You can send in as many sets as you like. Fill in the second set now -and bear in mind, even if you cannot sret all the answers right, you mav vet win the <£10— and there are 200 Consolation Gifts. Mention "Screened Stars "-to all Pyour Picturegoing friends. IT COSTS NOTHING TO EKTBtt! ENTR i N FORM. AiiMciss HAPPY thought! If you like tb» number, resolve to gel Pa vvtb.es every week and read it regularly. This issue is the first of a new volun the ninth '. Just fancy and six uiodl copies in each. Doesn't time fly! I might •have told yon last week that Vol. VIII. was complete, lmt did not realise it until too Lite to -say s.>. It gave*me quite a shock. I hope you will enjoy Vol. IX. better than its predecessors, for 1-mean to try and make each volume-brighter than tin"last. Bound copiesof Vol. VIII. will Ik* ready shortly .for. those who desire them. Contest and Competition. v No. I cannot say yet when tl. of the contest will l>e published. Sex era I readers have asked the question : but if they could see thetask which faces those registering the votes they would hare patience. Meanwhile are you seeking out the film stars whose names are hidden in the puzzle picture.', on this page? If you want the fir.1 Bet, it istill possible, I believe, to get a copy of last week's issue l>y sending three halfpence to our publishers. To Read or Not to Read. "The east was so small that I could not read it " — thus writes a reader. It's an old complaint and twin brother to that other complaint— the sub-title which is flashed off before ha If of it is understood. Why the whole of tlie screen is not utilised for lettering in pictures 1 can never understand, nor can I even guess why so many .makers put al surd designs round their sub-titles and tint the film in all the colours of the rainbow. Casts, sul '-titles. " letters." in fact all wording in film-pictures should 1 •■ solid white on black and minus borders or any other marks whatsoever. Lettering should be as Large as the screen and the number of words appearing«alIow it 'to be. Occasionally — very occasionally we get this, but more often than not the words are too small or too highly coloured, or both, to be of any service to the audience. "The Man in Possession." I met Billy Merson after seeing his seooad film, The M<rn in /' -• n .and told him lie had gone one better than his first. He was glad 1 thought so.aud intimated that his third. Tfn Onlg It which he is now at work upon, would be at least two better. There is no q tion about Billy being funny on the en. No one could see him as the Bailiff in and "out " of possession without laughing. On the night of a swell party the "man" oblige his "victim" by donning gladiatorial robes (with a pipe) and posing a a millionaire. A struggle with a blancmange, a loveaffair with :>n elderlj spinster, and a bhase through everyrootu in the ltoase from which he is finally ejected headfirst through a window, are soraw of Mr. Merscu's playful antics in tliis second