Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE jER iwn among us V . 1 1 1 U ' ■ n u i id del u the pictures, it i idicioiis t<> « a\ il too mueh ibout t he supposed real " Ki >l {n British lilm of them II «• II T\ cuffs, and nearly all of them have a playful way i>l making arrets without but, taken all round, their ■ \ ••!•> . \ cry 1 . seem to think nothing of walking into n lady's drawing-room without takii their helmets, uul the friendly iu-il with which n lot of them re eive the inspee ■ iil'T would get ;in, genuine hum into t rouble on the spot. immendable number of films denl ng with historical subjects nro flawIml irae arc :u>i . In one film \\ c lia\c -.•■■il Oliver Cromwell riding a jumper like an expert ; and in r \\ •• watched N,i| oleon at Waterloo frowningly consulting what inii supposed to be a map of Belgium, but which looked suspiciously like a map of Middl Film burglars arc mostly more transparent than glass. In real life they would be arrested as mm hi as t I icy walked nut ef their secluded homes unless the police were too helpless with mirth. Hut the burglar whom in a picture we saw set off t" raid a mansion at midnight, ■rearing n pair of the thickest boots he ■onld have purchased and carrying an ssional tools and wen in a carpet-bag. must have been either an amateur or quite a new begim .0. 81. MUSIC \L TERMS [LLUSTRATED. No, I, hOl NlXT Wx-tK BUT THE W£LK AFTER OUR USUAL ISSUE Dated Dee 11 and published D AN UNUSUAL ISSUE DOUBLE CHRISTMAS NUMBER of "PICTURES." Price 2d id Do Not M s's /'. ' .M.i Non Tr i too much. by Fred OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. What Matters Wh ch ? \ Belgian friend of mine swears by her lioni that the wonlstlie a etuis speak in lit are ] nch. I couldn t ir by my hulidom. as I in not sine it 1 lii-.e one, Imr. at any rate. 1 s;1j,i ( did llu| k so. Ir i not likely Kniilish actors in ICnirlish company would s]K>ak French, is Still, that s whit she sa\ s. so ! said I d to you and tied out for certain." .1. I'. (Bridlington). Plainer Titles at Last. •• How plail 1 am that many now Brit i.sli have ii.-l the plain title to explain you took the * ibieet up in er we were {riven titlewith pink. and yellow orn uncut s around the ils and ;i's the title was Slashed otf almost a soon a ii was on the screen it took one all time to di~: over the letter at all. Xuw different — instead of The old titles in^: plain lettering on a dark ha k ml, and one can at once read what the title is in.' 1 1 1 1 to convey withoul having to strain one's eye-. I1' it is : he influei:. your dear paper, please may I thank you: P. 11 5t.Lt onards-on-Sea I. Win Is this Win? 1 met a friend the other day who lives in the heart of the country ho was op in < 'a\ entry on holiday. He heard us speak of Charlie Chaplin, and one night he asked, 'Who is this man;-' 'I he a Liberal Member, a General, or nV.C. Would you beliovcthat one ; "' ./ go about with their oyes open anil not realise that 'Charlie' is the greatest aa comedian the world has ever known? ii coarse, we soon told him all about the laughter-maker, and now h ■ will not go inside a cinema unless one of 'Charlie's' !i!ms j-, (Hi. A. S. < 'ie. entn ). Quite Likely I "Do you think ii possible thai a young lady who used to sing in the cho us at the Theatre in Loudon, could hare gone i i the Seli'. ( ' imp my in A iuse ] e m .-in,' I recognised her in a ball-room scene in a Selig drama which was shown here." Ii. V. (Clapham). happened in i'itmlawl. Editor.] An Out-Df-the-Ordinary Pap3r. "My brother has asked me to write ami thank imi for the very pleasant hours yonr Picti kes has gi\ en him since he has been ont in the Dardanelles. Before he went away ho did not think oi looking at your book ho considered Pictures were niter bosh ; bnt now he is quite reformed, and says we at. home cannot realise how much they appn a cinema show when they tut a chanco of going to one. and that Picti res is such an ont-of-t he-ordinary pa er that all the fellows in his Brigade like it. C. M. (Southampton). "Pictures" fro;n Paddy. 1 have jusl had a letter from my b 'somewhere in the North Sea. telling how much he appreciates youi I send him my copies every month, and lie sin s the) help to pass many a pleasant hour while, they are waiting for ' something to hail 1m taken pari in each of the sea-battles so far, and was in the -hip which fired the first shot in the Heligoland Bight. H rather prond of that, and saye the only v. i-li they have i for the chance of anothei i in.' " Paddt (Peterborough).