Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 28 Wezk ending Oct. 9, 1915 Picture News and Notes X (' •; ■-'.•■ .. j_u. ,."n . \r\ s"* J-^3"0 • I^^^elI -"" /l \N>: = <f£^$^ fcSaj B%iLaf» iffi Jill WW? S8 <W*r~ gnft^ Dfe^SSt i^T,!r ^fe-ji= ^^'M-?w\ ^r^V? W£^ ffi'-JT • " *~—j^^^ "^^"^-aT ■TcuV V't -J?"" ^ t-^-^ A~ tfa^ - ■B life;: .. A Dream or the Future. WritiBg Music for a Fifty-Reeler in 1940. WINIFRED GREENWOOD, of the American Company, lias appeared in eight hundred productions. Trulya record in screen-work. # # •* * Dainty Lillian Walker is to head the cast in the Vitagraph production of the stage comedy Green Stockings. Lillian would be lovely in any colour. The Essanay Company are busy on an eight-reeler of the famous story of TSoblnsoii Crunoe, a subject which should fascinate, the young and the old. # ' # # # Young Claude Percival has given up the idea of becoming a CoOO per week film comedian and returned to his old position as head of the shirt department. # # # # "Laugh and be beautiful!" declares Essanay's pretty actress, Edna Mayo. "Try " a Smile-an-Hour ' treatment for those " scowl ' lines on your face, and in a week you'll find yourself betterlocking."' We're trying hard. We'd love to visit the dressing-room of Carey Hastings, the Thanhouser actress. Among other things which decorate its walls are a pair of motor goggles with a three-inch splinter sticking in a lens (a narrow escape !), an autographed necktie, and three small shoes presumably belonging to a girl and a Half. An Expensive Imitation. " I'M working for a Picture Company. 1 and .. 'icy're 'taking' me jusi as I am,' said a drunken man at Dudley to a police-officer. lie had been found crawling on his hands and knees III front of a tramear. " I'm Charlie Chaplin." he informed the Magistrate. " Are you, really P " replied his worship, who knew better. "Then yon will pay ten shillings," BI< iral : 11' you imitate Charlie, keep sober. "Flower" Films for Mary Fuller. IT i interesting to note that a series of '" flower :' stories have been specially written for Mary Fuller, the TransAtlantic star. The first of the series is 77/ l.iUlt U'hih Violet (released shortly), in which her countless admirers will see her in a rdle full of opportunity for displaying her powers for pretty, sympathetic characterisation. Apropos of this series a" lily" portrait study of Mary appears this week on our front cover. The Song Cinema. THERE seems, says the Star to be a certain affinity between the cinema and the musical world. In America the picture palace has become a sort of concert agent, and. I learn from Musical America, Damrosch. Hofmann. and Mine. Leginska are among the many artists who have appeared upon the " movies." They say over there that at least 20,000,000 people see each picture. America has gone further than assisting music through the cinematograph. It has set the fashion of engaging artists of the first rank to sing during the exhibition of the pictures. Tongue=Twisting in Theatre-land. A RIVAL to the famous "Sister Susie " found its way into the programme of the popular revue J// Scotch. The authorship was attributed to Harry Grattan. but that gentleman begs to disclaim the honour. This is how it runs : — " Charlie Chaplin causes cachinnation. Combining quaintly crablike crawls witli comic curves and cane. Congested crowds cause crushing Kept continually conenshing; Craving Cheery Charlie Chaplin's champion curative campaign.'' Rhyme and Reason. A LOT of girls in this world of ours would picture actors be. They think it fine to pose in plays with wide publicity. They never think of the hard work the trials and the real tears that come to those who long to pose before the real and nears. The best advice that we can give to those now tilhim struck is to stay at home and not to roam, for there is little luck ! Those who act upon the screen have studied long and well, so we suggest that home is best, for picture work is— (Well, it's not what it's thought to be!) Turning the Handle. THESE figures, taken from the house organ of an American theatre . will interest all picturegoers : — During the month of June the operators rah Ms reels averaging 1,009 feel §0 the reel, making a total of Sts.ooo foot of film. In order to run this number of feel through the machine, which runs one foot to each turn of the crank, our operator turned the crank during the month 848,000 times. So please excuse the operator if he is a little cranky. There are pictures to a which maki 2,568,0 mechanism of a picture machine igeared that the cam shaft revolves once for every picture. The month of June reduced to miles would be 162} m The Making of Mae .Marsh. TWO years _ in awkward, timid girl in her 'teens followed her : . Margaret Lovei i at a safe distance to the Biograph studios, where D. W. Griffith presently found her watching in open-eyed astonishment the making of a motionpicture. Her finely-shaped bead and intellectual brow attracted the producer's eye, and although her hair was plastered down Hat on her head, and her arms and face badly sunburned and freckled, he realised that in this young woman he had made a find. Befo: month had passed the ugly duckling began to be transferred into a beautiful swan, and to-day Mae Marsh, who plaj ed an important part in Tie Birth Nation, captivates old and young with her beauty and charm. Film Fiction from "Truth." THERE are coming thrills for picturegoers. The American Biograph Company have secured the rights of producing some of the famous •"Queer Stories." from Truth. The first to be filmed is The Wheel which deals with the revenge of a doctor whose beautiful wife is engaged in an intrigue with a wealthy lover. Surprising his rival and his wife together one day. his betrayer ingeniously explains that he has called for a consultation. The doctor, apparently accepting the explanation in all good faith, overhauls the other, and informs him that he is suffering from a disease of the heart, which must kill him in three months. His betrayer accepts the diagnosis unquestionably, and in every little indisposition sees a confirmation of his deathsentence. At last, broken down by the strain occasioned by the horror of his supposed inevitable end. he shoots himself. The physician, his end accomplished, goes his way. Films on the Eve of Battle. AMONG the German war novelties introduced in the Russian front the cinema is taking a prominent place. On the way to the attack, at the stopping-points, says the Ecemi \ the officers show to their men cinematograph views of the villages and towns which they are to capture on the morrow. The soldiers see beforehand the road along which the army must march, with all its details. The officers explain how the difficulties of the route maybe surmounted, where bridges may be thrown over the streams, and where the l>est river fords are situated. The attention of the men is directed to any depressions in the soil, the existing trenches, forests, and valleys. Nothing is omitted that can give to the soldiers an opportunity to lighten the labours of the march. Thus, on entering a town, the soldiers know at once where the barracks and bakehouses are situated and where the tradesmen's shops may be found. Are You Star-hunting? Seep. ■>$•