Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTUKjES AND THE P1CTUREGOER 33 ARE YOU STAR HUNTING? Ist PRIZE 2PRIZE £10 £5 W 10 PRIZES ofi 200 Handsome Consolation Prizes. CREENED STAR START TO-DAY! It costs nothing to enter! We give below the thin! set of pictures in our Players' Puzzles for Picture<roers Com pet it ion lm Screened Stars." The Competition i> quite simple and quite free. Below yon will find six pictures representing the surnames (only)of well-known Picture Actresses ami Actors. What you have to do is to write, in the spaces provided, the surname you think each picture. represents. Tims take picture No. I in the first set— n pick and a ford. This represented the surname of the Famous Player -MaryPickford. Fill in the solutions of the other piet ores in a similar way. Do not send now keep each set till the final set has appeared. A £10 note will he awarded to the sender of the most correct solutions, £5 to the next, and 10s each to the next ten. and 200 Consolation Prizes to the senders of the next best .solutions in order of merit. You ean send in as many sets as you like. Fill in the third set now — and bear in mind, even if you cannot get all the answers right, you may yet win the i'lll-imil there arc 200 Consolation Gifts. Only well-known British "and Foreign players' names are illustrated. Their names are always appearing in our pages. so hick numbers will help yon. Get all your friends to join in the hunt. An a ] Jones | MP • £ WOJtJU^uLA. Mosul PRiiON Rule's. lb fe ^guVU^Vy IB £ /u^ ENTRY " 3rd Week eniing Oct. 9. 1915 Veteran K;lem Actor Dead. THE news of the death of William H. Wesl a veteran member of tin* Kalem Comj any i. which to"k place "ii August 30th neat Los Angeles, will i with deep regret by a large number of our read William Herman West was ln.ru in Newport, R.I . about fifty-five yeai Following an appearance in P was for ten years in opera. After five years in repertoire in Brady companies, he was featured for two years in El Capita if. H»' played Foxy Quill. -r in Tin Highwayman and the Sheriff in Robin Hood. One of his m< st successful roles was as Sir Peter Teazje in /. i fp Teazle. For four years he was at the Tivoli Opera House in .San Francisco. Mr. West went to Kalem nearlj live years ago. His ability as an all-round actor early stamped liim as one of the d the screen. His characterisations of the high-caste Chinaman or the American Indian were marked by keen understanding of national traits. His >reen work will be seen in the series entitled T/n M Hotel. He was a gentleman as well aa a splendid actor ox the old school. In and Out of Pictures. Once I made an application To the Seiigs— what elation '. Got a job with bed and ration Me and wife. Took us all down to the ocean. By the deep see. waves in motion, All some playwright's silly uoti Sun and sb Clad us in a bit of bunting Such as cave-men wear in hunting. Each a skin -the rest was wanting Oh. my wife '. Sunburned legs and breasts and shoulders, Shins skinned up wit h jagged boulders, Clubs and knives and sea-weed holders. Art was rife! On the cliff the villain kissed her. Threw her off the hero missed her ! Now, alas ! no agents list her Such is life ! f(". /.. s \ l '/ FORM. Address Set. A' Viola Dana the Dancer. PPAKKNTIjY no school-girl ever was more fond of dancing than Viola Dana, the daintj little Edis< n lead. No matter how hot the daj and « hat studio i cooler than the '"outside" weather r she is always read] to take a whirl if she can find anybodj to brave the wilting pastime. Puffing away, she will hum snatches of 9ong till out of breath, and her partner is always the first to ask for mercy by stopping the dance. Modern dances (C nttnued on paga 10.)