Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PKJTURLb AZiD THE PICTUREGOER 17-1 K ENDI.\-< ruining ray life," was Daphne's bitter reply. "With hi dying breath he uttered the lie he had threatened and Robert believes it." Paul's unspoken thought, as be left the room in t " Thank < rod I kept that letti r be to Daphne. That v ill open Scaton's if anything will." He was not disappoint* d. Robert Seaton knew the instant he saw Sullivan's letter how cruelly he had wronged Daphne. He hastened 1" the theatre, iwed by Paul. With trembling hands he knocked at the door of her i •■ No, no!' cried Paul. " Here in my r om." He threw the door open as he spoke; and horror seized on the two they glanced within. Th< re id Daphri a ' ik of unutterable misery onher beautiful face. Her hand was raised to her head; and in it. its ci rid muzzle pressed firmly to her temple, the revolver. Seaton's whispei-ed " Daphne "reached her ears. She turned saw in his face nothing but love and remorse for bis hasty judgment and with a glad cry she new to his arms. There is no need to say that Sins of Great Cities is the thrilling type of drama the story narrated above will confirm that ; whilst the fact that Ebba Thomsen (Daphne) and other clever Nordisk players fill the cast is allsufficient evidence that perfect aidingis present throughout this enjoyable threepart picture-play. The release date is December 30th. WHISKERS WHILE YOU WAIT Funny Little Mistakes they make in Fi ms. RAYMOND AND THE R'NG-TAILED RHINO. 1 RAYMOND HITCHCOCK, a wellV known stage-player', lias made Ins first debut in a four-act Lubin photoplay. The Ring-tailed tihinoceros. This is how it happened. When Geo. Terwilliger, head i:f the Lnbin Co., asked Mr. Hitchcock to ;'mi his forces he said. " No movies Eor nmh ; so siree ! " All the Lubiuitos tried to persuade Hitchie to join. But nothing doing. Then Larry, a friend of his. said. " Let's do s:i ■. etlun,, .1 i.nn i). diunm E week The script of The Ring-tailed Kldnoceros was the result. Hitch io saw it. and asked Larry to Iii> home, where the scenario was finished) and il was hi the neighbourhood that it was filmed. Larry not only succeeded in persnadin Hitchie t<> play in the picture, but made of liis wife (Flora Zabelle), his macaws, his friends, his house and his grounds. Bravo! IT was a scene in a thrilling film drama showing the miser's i and the unfortunate old gentleman lyiug murdered on the 11 : bag wildly at the corpse was the hero, and confronting him was the detective, looking awfully accusing. The villain, all sardonic smile, was in the background, and the hero was so clean shaven that he really must have just co: the barber's. The scene changed, and j street, with the hero rushing out of the miser's front-door, and the detective in pursuit. The abrupt shock of the accusation appeared to have had a startling effect on the hero. Iu the room, than two seconds before, there was suspicion of a hair on Ins countenance, yet now our hero wore a delicately 1 lined yet unmistakable moustache. Wonderful, wasn't it ? Zet is was quite simple, really. No photo-plaj i; ever filmed right off from beginning to end at one and the time. _ One scene is negotiated at time, in one place, and another later on, possibly a hundred miles away. In this drama the minder was finished off by the camera man. and the producer had then to wait for a day or two until the street scene he required was available. By that time the hero had forgotten that he hadn't had a moustache in the room, and had omitted to got a new shave. .Often, too. a picture drama is produced "backward." A funeral might be filmed one month, and the deathbed scene the month after: and it is not unusual for a criminal t< > be filmed "doing time" many days before be commits the forgery or other enterprise of genius which gets him into trouble. t leni rally producers are most careful ; but mistakes will happen. In a famous film the hero was shown being picked out of the river, and in the next scene, when he was supposed to be still wearing his sodden garments, he absentmindedly si ruck a match on his trouser lee'. The adventuress who was shown jumping out of a window ivith her 1 off and then being picked up in the street outside with her hoots on must have been a remarkable young person ! The letters which characters in iilm LUNCH TIME IN THE STUDIO: A .in full warpaint ofte "illains. Hemes. Heroines. Bags, and Riches D sit at the ^aiiic table. s are supposed to write, and which are then shown on the screen, lead to little rui-tak and then. Such letters a:e next t ually wiiUen by the actor m to pen and pencil 4 them, but I by the man, either 1 in^ to his . • fancy. M< plaj to be writing \ n-y iy; but a big film was n> arly eked by an 1 . t fulie •.-.«. ■ He was playing a spendthrift who had to write distractedly to his rich uncle to implore' assistance. He rou.-t have I eenj very distracted, since the pictui ed him writing a long letter, w was shown on the screen full of agitated blots and he accomplished it with ut once dipping his quill pen into tie. ; bottle. wlx iy Las been shown in a: film writing out m with then blunt end of a pencil and the point _ in the air. Yet the clerk rcaw the effort without a wink. Of course it does not do hypercritical, but some film let; :;. In a Elizabeth photoplay Phiiip l! note to the Maiden Queen. V ■ inform heq that he was _ done: the Armada to smash her up. He wrote hi= in English, spelt several words ii reetly. and employed a rigid " • mercial" hand, which was not invented until a couple of centnries after his decease. Hut all these' thinhave been due to his foreign educati And the effect was. k> say th i striking when Mary Queen of Scots v .is shown penning her abdication at I. leveu — writing every word of it hi and the fateful document when rlu on the screen turned out to K> the du.tiou of two people who wn x hit ely dissimilar hands. We have seen the heroine of a film write to her lover, far. far away in India, and rev ivo his answer on precisely the samost\le of uotepaper and in the same shaj ed envelopes as she had herself used. Hut she might have given him a supply of her own stationery before I12 left her. Probably more little mistal o.-cur over supposed scenes in pa brokers' shops than over anything else. It is to be hoped that the film people make such gorgeous income. that I never have occasion to learn anything about such establishments. The way in which the benevolent "uncle'' will advance handsome sums on jewellery ha never tests and on gold watches he accepts as genuine on sight is positively touching. The limit must, however, have been reached by a film actor who redeemed his valuables by present i punched tram-ticket instead of the orthodox one. The picture revealed it 1 tram-ticket, and the pawnbr accepted it without a wink. Many films come from the I States, and it may be that in the 1 of the Tree the police have peculiarities