Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 14 + Wkek en Nov. 13, 1915 ALL ARE WELL-KNOWN NAKES PRIZE 2-°PRlZE £10 £5 M 10 PRIZES ofi GREENED STAR OVER 200 PRIZES TO BE "WON! Wo (jive below tin eightb sot of pictures in our Players? Puzzles for Pictnr petition " Screened Stars." The Competition is quite simple— and quite free. Below you will find six pictures representing the surnames (only)of well-known Picture Acta and Actors. What you havo to do is to write, in tlie spaces provided, the surname you tlunk each picture represents. Thus tako picture No. 1 in the first set -a pick and a ford. .This represented the surname of the [famous Player -Mary Pickford. Fill in the solutions of the other pictures in a similar way. Do not send now— keep each set till the final set lias appeared. A £10 note will he awarded to the sender of the most correct solutions, .£5 t>> the next, find 10j. each to the next ten. and 203 Consolation. Prizes to the senders ot the next best solutions in order of merit. You can send in as many sets as you like. Fill in the eighth set now— and hear in mind, even if you cannot get all the answers right, you raaj yet win the .£10— and there are 200 Consolation Gifts. Only well-known British and Foreign players' names are illustrated. Their names are always appearing in our pages. Back numbers ontaiaing previous Sets may be hid from ear Publishers. ENTRY Sui FORM OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. Acting by Return cf Post. ■ My friend and I have an awful 1 : pictures, and would simply lovi If you will kindly furnish us with full particulars as to how we can do -t we -hall nil very much andJX D. (Dublin). Wanted, a Cast. '• In the one British film which 1 night Mi. Ill-mil... was pretty and t there was ie< cast therefore, even if 1 wish to follow that inher career J cannot, simply I I don t know hi-i name. i:uu prevented frail talking about her to my friends, for 1 -imply know her as the girl who played in that film. Wlien will all English producers realise that publicity i the key to tli. door M. A. (St. John U "Mary Pickford" Shot. " I have had a letter from an officer friend in th. trenches, and In; tolls me that in his dug-out the -walls an covered with portraits of cinema actors ami actresses which 1 have sent him from time to time. Mary Pickford has had two bullets through her head, and half her frock is shot away : Charlie Chaplin (this is one of those big cut-outs; h.is had his head and hat completely shot off. He ends liis letter by saving that fresh contributions will be very thankfully received. a they expect in a few day-' tim.' to havecapturvd an important German trench, where the dad out walls will be hare, and they have not time to transport all their pictures to the new trench, as they leave them behind forthe newcomer-. T. S. (Aberdeen). Oh ! Owen Moore. ' My chum lias just been across to see me, ami told me something that struck me us being really good.' It ran thus : — ' Owen Moore went out one day, Owing more than he could pay, Owen Moore came back that knowing mora.' We suggest tint be should fall kick 011 his dear Mary, seeing that she earns -more thin enough to supply thorn both with the mere necessities of life/ ; 1 am in trouble. My favourite cinema 1 under new management, so now instead o) getting two Famous Plavers or Lasky film; a week we are getting such a mixture of films Then the late manager used to sing divinely and the pianist would play selection fron operas, but now songs and classical music an things of the past. The whole place to bs chilly and strange." Ivy X. (Watford). Tuck for Tommy Please Help. • Would you lie so kind a to insert th> following request in the columns of Pi nius With the collaboration of souk friend 1 ;:m -ending out some cases . things for my brother's men in the Darda lielles they have been out there now fo eight month-. I hope to Ik able to sent well-packed boxes: do yon thiul there are any of \ our reader who would hel| me (ill these cases for our men I am assure* that the men will got them. as 1 did the -inn tiling last year when they were in France The letter-" of thanks which 1 revived wer more than ample reward lor my tronlil N matter what it is. send it along — boita sweots, tinned cocoa, chocolate, cigarettes tobacco, soap, tinned fruits, soap-powders vest.-, scarves, mitten-, gloves -all are useful and they are appreciated. Don't beafraido your parcel being small every little counts Please Mill you allow the patrols to b addressed to me care of your office : " F, Bais I le of Wight).