Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

K NDING .•111) 3 9 ) HIE PIC 5R li he fought in an •"»''. liuht <>ii.> JiH |piipils was the famous French t 'urgent ier. ■ I lioeii in I. "'ill"" In N 111 \ first \ isit. 1 li\eil for nice. anil .Mil'. to KiilT I with my wife and two children tinted i I. oking for u nice, huge top loor on a lull near tt imrk in Cent nil London, ■ I eiin stai t .1 i.'> nuuisiiiiu and physical trainiiiir school, But u must under fresh-air conditions. 1 had mi.Ii .i school in America, and turned out quite a lot of athletes. My treuti is better than anj doctor's medicine. The business man with a tired mind and Hahhy muscl.s need stimulating, and physical exercise will d.> it him. Menial tiredness slows down the circulation, dulls the nerves, lessens the secret ion of the glands, and reduces the power of digestion; but lionding i breathing exercises, regular walking, and careful dieting «i!l -""ii make him lit. The keyed-up man may do two hours' work in one hour, but it can't hist. He will need rest, and the right kind of bodily exercise will ui\e it to him and make him ti' both mentally and spiritually/' During his stay in . -a recruit band stopped outside, and Mr. ither, who recognised a sergeant, went into the crowd and made a stirring speech. Ai the present time he is attending daily at the Y M.C.A. in Tottenham ut Road, where he already has nil men undergoing a course of physical training, and any reader who | wishes to become tit should write to Mr. . ithcr at that address / Whiti II r . the film in which the black champion appears, and the story if which was published in our December tsth issue, will not be released until .March, but we strongly advise you to watch for this great British boxing picture. OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. Riddle-me-Ree. Last week I saw Tk Eternal City six S, and I gness 1 know it pretty well The story starts with David's mother oiittiiig suicide and leaving David. His r eornes hack and learns of his wife's ic end and enters a monastery, and the sub-title reads, -Years later becomes Pope Pills XL' Well, the story goes Oil, and all this time we are thinking the Pope is Da\ id s father, until about the seventh part, when the sub-title reads, ' The Pope is suspicious that David is his unfortunate sister's son.' I David really the Pope's son, in which case l lie second -iib-titlc must be wrong, or what [( sounds like a riddle, doesn't it : Well, I should like it solved. I went to see it all those times to try and fathom the mysterj . but with no success: and six of my friends did the same." L. R. (.Croydon). The Versatile Hand. ■ I am writing to a-k you why it is that many British (and sometimes • • e the foreign) producers allow lilins to be shown to the public in which the villain -. the heroine's, the hero's, the forger's, and the chee-ild's handwriting is all the same? rhe present-day picture public takes notii v detail nowadays, so why do they treat a ehee-ild J. B. (Islington). WHAT IS YOUR TITLE FOR THIS PICTURE? Write your choice on a postcard and address it to " Title," PICTURES Offices, 85 and S6, Long Acre, Loudon, W.C., and post to arrive by Monday, January 3rd. A CHEQUE FOR ONE GUINEA will be awarded to the sender of what in the opinion of the Editor is considered the best title sent in. N.B.— Look out for our new big Free Competition, particulars of which will appear in next week's issue. IN WHAT AGE EXISTED THE