Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTURES AND Th2 PICTUREGOER 126 Picture News and Notes # <t # * On Trafalgar Day one thou riii ned lilms showing the Navj ;it work and at play. • # The French Government has authorised the reopening of tin cinema theatres in Boulogne. Hooray! # # ' # * Would you like to see elephants in battle ? Would you like tosee elephant chases through water? Then wait for The Flash Light, a Selig special. # • # # Cyril Maude's salary for silent playwork in America is said to be £4-0 an hour. Silence is gold, is it not !J We hear that his next lilra appearance is in The Antique Dealer, They're all after The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Although not released Until December 6th, the picture is booking rapidly. Watch for the story of this Ideal film in Pictures. # « # # There axe some would-be film dramatists who complain bitterly of the shortsightedness of producers, but they should remember that when a producer is considering a plot he always lias a cast in his eye. # # # # 'The Birth of a Nation is said to have led to the burning of the Princes Theatre in Montreal, because of its injustice to the coloured race. No fear of the Scala in London being set on fire, except with enthusiasm! * * * Five thousand pounds worth of furniture, from a. dining-room clock to a kitchen-table, has arrived at the TJnial Studios. The rumour that we spent as much on furniture for our new offices is hereby contradicted. THE PI.AYhR'S HOLIDAY.-No. *. • KeyBtone Fatty" in a wild animal film. Mrs. General Tom Thumb, widow of the i Lilliputian exhibited all o the world by Barnum, has been featured with other " little people " in a film called The Lilliputians' Cou l'his little subject is obviously a big one. # # * * The Cheery One and the Chaps. AN optimist who has been preached at, says Town Topics, about frivolous picture shows says he would like to have " a chop at chaps at church who chip at chaps for cheering Charlie Chaplin." And it should be added that " the chaps that leave their chattels to show their stuff in battles are the sort of chaps that cheer at Chaplin shows." The Cinema Ambulance Fund. POP " LUBIN no sooner heard of the Cinematograph Ambulance Fund than he gave action to his generosity. He cabled without a moment's delay 2,500 dollars. It will buy at least one complete ambulance motor outfit, he said, and will express in tangible form my heartfelt and deep sympathy with those Englishmen who are so bravely and nobly fighting in the cause of freedom. Thank yon, Mr. Lubin. Will others kindly note ? Foreign Twenty Years Aito. THE film world has introduced a new form of speech. We were reading in a Kidderminster paper of the effect of the cinema upon the popular vocabulary. First and foremost is-the-invention of the word " movie " to indicate a ' moving picture exhibited at these shows. Among other coinages are such roughand-ready verbs as " to movieise," " to filmise," " to picturise," and " to scenariose." Then there are such technicalities as the term " five-reel film " and the phrase " on the screen."" What, it is asked, would one have been able to make twenty years ago of the announcement that "Charlie Clickford, the famous movie star, will be seen on the screen to-night in a fivereel pictorisation of The Queen of the Cinema, a thrilling picture-play just released by the X \ Z Motion Feature Corporation P " The Cinema Cure. A WOUNDED Tommy at St. Helens laughed SO much at Charlie Chaplin thai he was caught leaving t lie hall without his crutches. " 1 never laughed so much in my life," he gasped when told >4 his absent mindedness. Recently we heard of a dumb man recovering his speech through Laughing at Nov, i5: Biilie Ritchie. N wait for ny who wj off over son. nmedian and off home without it. On Strike. NO "ne knew what apsel hi Royal but the other day pped his chain at the ■1 ran oft' at top speed. People scattered in all directions, t and plants which obstructed Charlie's course were pulled up or trampled down, and finally Charlie took an head plunge in the Los Angeles river. water evidently cooled his mad when an hour later they routed him out of his mud-bed, he went back home like a lamb. N.B. — We are not referrii:. Chapiiu, but Charlie the elephant. Who, Why, and From Whence? IT fits the melody of the chorus to " Red Wine/' and it's all be How, or why, or where it started nobody knows, but everybody wl anybody in the juvenile world is si . ing the following verse about Cbarha-j Chaplin : — " When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin. His boots are cracking For want of blscl And his little bagg] they; want mending Befcre they send him To the Dardanelles." How Should it End. WHEN you see The Itffsterv Drool, the splendid film owned, by the "ideal' Film Renting Company, remember that the owners offering £100 in prizes for the I criticism of the ending which the picgives to Dickens's incomplete tale, and the best suggestion for an alternative finish. As it is necessary to read the book in order to compete for the pri arrangements have been made with I publishers. Chapman and Hall. Ltd.. owners of the copyright of the novel. to have copies of the book on sale at all 1 theatres where the film is exhibited. For this purpose they have issued a new and special edition at one shilling which will be obtainable from the attenda ts Edna May on the Screen. JT is announced that Edna May been engaged by the Vitagraph ' Compauj to appear in moving pictures at a salary of ^20.000 per annum. J Edna May took London by storr LSDS. as the Salvation lassie in "Tin Belle of New York." In 1900 Miss M appeared a; the Shaftesbury Theal London, in "An American Beam returned to the United States in 1. in "The Girl from Up There." and reappeared in London at the Duke of York's Theatre the same year in the same part. She has been prominei featured both here and abroad iu many j plavs. among others " Kittv Grey." "Three Little Maids." "The School | Girl." " La Poupee." " The Belle of M fair." and in " Nelly Neil." her hasty resignation from her part in this latter production in September. 190t>. to become Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn. causing a newspaper sensation.