Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

I>ICTURES AND THE P1CTUREGOER 134 Nov. ONLY THREE MORE WEEKS! PRIZE £10 £5 2 PRIZE CREENED STAR OVER 200 PRIZES TO BE WON Wo give below tho tenth sol of picttires in our Players' Puzzles for Picfcnr . Competition— " Screened Stars. ' The Competition is qnite simple -and quite free. Below you will Bud six pictures representing' the surnames (only) of well-known Picture Acta and Actors. What j-ou have to do is to write, in the spaces provided, the surname yon think each picture represents. Thus take picture No. 1 in the first set -a pick and a ford. Tin 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 has appeared. A £10 note will be awarded to the sender of the most correct solutions, £5 to the next . ami 10-! each to the next ten. and 20 > 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 tenth set now— and bear in mind, even if you cannot get alt the answers right, you may yet win the £10 and there are 200 Consolation (Sifts. Only well-known British and Foreign players' names are illustrated. Their names are always appearing in our paues. Back numbers containing previous Sets r.ny be had from our Publishers. ENTRY Lpage with the subject whi my mind, and will be f'T another f. .1 tiii«cht — the ble Christmas Number of Picnn It is shaping quite nicely, thank yon. Since I last wrote I have the proof of the special Supplement which will be presented gratis in every copy. It is a Hue art portrait of on second thoughts I will hold up this information until next week. Whistle and I Shall Hear. I learn from Turner Films. Ltd.. that there are some exquisite scenes in -/ Weigh Shigei;the film from the novel by Allan Haine, which has l>een made by this company. Can you picture a producer being so far frym one or two performers that his voice would not carry ? This was the ease in one of the scenes made in Wales. To photograph Florence Turner and another player on top of the cliff the camera was placed away down on the rocks below. a fact which neetated the use of whistles. This is the first time I have heard "f a small scene in which, through distance alone, whistles became a substitute for the voice. Billy in the Briny. A few days air" I was one of the crowd that chuckled over /'•'. 1 1 ' the third screen production featuring Billy Merson. Even the saddest will feel gay when they see Billy as a shopwalker in a big drapery establishment ; but wait and see lnm in reels two and three as the only man in a sea-side village where women wear the trousers. and you will see -well, just Billy Merson, that's good enough. The Globe Film Company know something. They tell me that tie y have secured all the Billy Merson films for the next two years. Famous 'Villain" Passes way. The passing away of E. S. Willard. a famous actor-manager, and one of the greatest of stage villains, is of no little interest to the picturegoer, seeing t hats Mr. Willard has sc red in many stage successes now being shown upon the. screen, including The >i/r< ,■ A the Penman, and t I ts „' Lvndon One of his greatest creations was Cyrus Blenkarn in The Middleman (the part played by Albert t hevaUer in the London Film production), which I well remember clapping at the Shaftesbury Theatre a good mar.; g ». H •■ made stage history, too. in JvdaJk, as the Professor in sir J. M. Barries I Pro/ N and as Benjamin Goldfinch in .1 /' s .•.'-. t ; plays which would make lovely 1 reductions. Although Mr. Willard died in London, he spent many years in America, where lie was an immense stage favourite. Anita Su wirt's Great Success. Whenever 1 go to see a film with Anita Stewart and Earle Williams in the cast 1 look forward to enjoyment.