Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

IDJNO (X r. 9, 1915 35 PICTURES AND THE PICTUKEGOiK OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. Quite an Authority. 1 irould nut mi-.* jolt} old P. v\t> P foi tlif irorlil. Tbe picture palaces themselves would fall rather Mat I guess, if one did nol know tin persona acting in the Blir.s. I am i|iuti' .in authority on iln 'movies' non thank ii> \ ..lit ripping little lim'k. Hero's to it* Inn life innl general prosperity . I. M. V. (Che Children. Cheering, and Chaos. \i one hi tin' palaces near hero there is .1 Children's Programme, everj Saturday afternoon, and the Ifill , has 1h en Iut out of theirprograinmo because thej made such a row over 1:. Thoj chei red, and Btamped, and shouted, and called onl things, until tlw place was like Bedlam. I've seen some pictures l>ui I've never heard an 3 audience make such a fuss'ovor anything a* that made over the v 1 I)n4»da] , l> i; K.llmiin. " Star " Huts in Camp. had 11 ripping holidnj ' just on a mouth at a holiday camp on the Blast Coast, \ tents tin year, a* thu lights -bine out to Imt dear little huts instead, with just canvas windows. I straightway named un lmt 'Man l'ii kt,. nl. ami mother's' Harold Lockwood an 1 thf idea so pleased the other campers that thej came to me and wanted me to mark their favourite names on t Indoors of their lints ; so we had the Maurice C.-ti'llo hut, the Lilian Walker' lmt. the'G. M. Anderson ' hut, Ac. IX. (Watford). A Real War Drama. "Have von noticed in the papers that we are not taking so many prisoners lately f And the following will explain why. A friend of mine told hu' a storj from liis brother at tho Front. ■ We were given the order to charge and got to the top of tbe trench when a sniper spotted Fred, who wi s the first out, ami the next minute he fell hark into mi arms with a soft-nosed bulletin his tempi,'.. 1 laid him down and charged andcameacross the sniper, who saw he was spotted ami tried to bolt tor it. lmt 1 tot up to him ami he threw up his arms ami said. I'm tor England, are you. I said, " Yon're for Kingdom Come, and 1 ran my b. nonet tinhim ami thus avenged Fred.' • I a. kie (London. W.), Pictures, Prejudice, and Posters! " For a long time [have been made really quite unhappy by the prejudice of many of mj triends against the cinematograph. I have been laughed at for my enthusiasm by my friends, jeered »t for ' wasting my time by my family, and invariably treated with disdain ami contempt when I have introduced the subject of the pictures into my conversation witli acquaintances or strangers. Now this has troubled me very much, for I have always been positively convinced that the art of the moving picture is quite as great as that of the legitimate stage, and that if these cineraa-jeerers could once he got inside a picture-theatre they would wax equally as enthusiastic as I. At last, however. I have discovered the reason of this prejudice. It is the cmdeness of the picture-posters that frightens away the uninitiated ! Yesterday a friend expressed her adhorrence of thi se 'awful things' and said she could never bring herselt to see the plays they represented. Then, for the first time in my life I began to see that there was a preat deal of truth 11. tin-. and that it is (Juir,' likely people who know nothing of the beauty and artistry ol the films are frightened away by the crude and glaring posters. Can't anything be lb. lie • ° E. F. (Ancrley.) RICHARD TRAVERS. All Picture-goers know Richard Travers, and every Picture-play in which he has appeared has shown them what an accomplished and versatile actor he is. As Captain Rutledge in «e VAIN JUSTICE, 9$ An Emotional Two-Act Drama, he ha; added yet another success to those past achievements which have made him one of the most popular actors on the screen. He handles the strong emotional situations, in which this film abounds, with power and d stinction, while the love-passages and quieter scenes are finely rendered with all the delicaiy and sympathetic charm which make his acting so delightful. Do not miss this great film greatly acted. If you do not se it on the list of future events at your local house, tell the manager. He'll be glad to hear about it, for it's one of the Y,/S/S/U/V\AUJf THE EXCLUSIVE FILM . ,iy Film Service, T.M., 2.', Poke Pquare, London, W.