Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTURECOEH S23 V.'j :fi; ending Jan. b, 1916 Picture News and Notes FIND THE FILM! Sec page 313. # * # • Have you seen Tin Jockey 0} Death / Watch for its successor, The Circus of JJcat/i ; it'.-= a reel li\e subject. # * » « Save you noticed our growth? Next week will be our one hundi edth number since the two papers were amalgamated. # # # # Whimsical Walker, the famous Drury Lane clown, will be seen on tli<' screen in TheNut mill I he Kernel, a Trans-Atlantic Comedy to be released this month. # # # # ''Still waters run Deep,'' but they are going to make a splash. The Ideal production featuring Lady Tree is both deep and broad in quality. It is superb. *• * # First cat — ch your cat. Viola Dana Edison) rescued a stray one, and when three kittens were needed for G /ad iota, she had them ! # # # Henry B. Walthall says his part in The Raven is one of the best things he has done. "'Quoth the raven " Never more ! " But H.B. W. continues togive his best. # # # FIND THE FILM! See page 34-3. # * * . Ten ricks of cordwood, several sacks of spuds, vegetables of all kinds, and fruits were taken in exchange for seats at a country picture theatre in a small Washington _ (U.S.A.) village where money is scarce. # * * Over Two Hundred Photos! ALL cinema-goers and others will be delighted with the fascinating book which has just been published — Cinema Stars. It contains photographs of all the most popular cinema actors and actresses. As there are over two hundred of these photographs, really admirably arranged in most iiitistie borders, one wonders how the publishers can offer such a tine production to the public at the low price of 2d. World's Greatest Love Song. THERE is not a reader of Pictures who doesn't know the wonderful old song "Annie Laurie," and we believe that there will not be one who will tail to see the marvellous new Hepworth picture-play based on the song. The story and settings are said to be intensely beautiful. The picture will not be shown to the public for several months yet. but you cannot hear of a tl thing too soon. The Subject of our Fr< n <pi< ce. II 1 announced that Ri niaine Fielding, whose portrait is reproduced as our Frontispiece this week, has deided to remain in Bho ni\. A 1 i . . 11a. .\ I ere he has built a beautiful home and studio, and will produce pictures for the Trans-Atlantic under the title of the Cactus Brand. These will be one and two reel subjects, featuring Mr. Fielding. It was with many regrets that Mr. Fielding severed hisconuectiens with the Lubin firm; simply a case where he could remain in Arizona, which has been for a number of years his home .-: But one firm's loss is another's gain, and we may look for something exceptionally good in the future. Children Impressed by Film. WHEN the Empire. Watford, offered 10s. each to the four children who wrote the best essays 1 .11 /■'/■„ ence Nightingale -all the competitors remembered the incident in which Florence as A MOVING MYSTERY! Who writes all the "messages" for a picture-plaj (This has nothing to do with the " Clutching Hand.' a child nursed a broken doll. As one candidate put it. "the first patience she had was a doll with a wooden lee. Another assured us that "Florence went to a place called dardanelles"— evidently the effect of the present crisis. One writer remarked that " she once did a good turn to her sister. She had a baby." Vet another of the competitors exclaimed rapturously. " This was the most beautiful film I have seen, and a good and noble woman.' Four Reels of Excitement. THE villains, foiled and baffled, yet retain the papers. Protea barns that the\ will hand them over to the German representative at a secret ruin in the Isle of Wight. There are dungeons and caverns to pass through ; great, ponderous moving stairways of solid masonry are manipulated ; secret through stone walls Ik. entered. There are deep wells i which people are thrown, indeed, tl; is much mystery and a gr< at deal • 1 daring shown. Protea finally assa the citadel with nine constables. I only leave the ruin. some evidence of tie struiru'le that taki from the potted synopsis of /',-,/ . ///..ad-' tive film of great daring. An American " Ad." THE Sensation of all War Pictures bar none! The Warring Mil Opened at 'the Olympic Theatre. Chicago, November 28th in rain and blizzard— to sensational business. Police Reserves called every day to handle the crowds! Why ? : ecause it is the jnly war picture that has ever shown an actual battle fought from the beginning to the very end. Ri-_rht 1 ef your eyes ;• > of the bloodiest fought battles of the year! Charge after charge of maddened, blood-thirsty armies ! Heroes falling like chaff 1 the withering fire of the enemy ! The blasting cannon levelling one of the most modern sti holds ! The wicked spittiii-r Howitzers ripping the ranks of oncoming men ! The deathdealing machine-guns tgreat gaps in human walls! Thj Kitchener ot Pictures. LTRING a conversation between two screen-actors one of them charaeiRomaine Fielding as the " Kitchener of Pictur " Earl Kitchener." he went on. "has the reputation for being one of the greatest disciplinarians in the British Army. He will tolerate nothing slothful, he expe fro n his men the full qualities the soldier. Nay. he demands it, and sees that he gets it ; but be is just, and does not exact ' from his subordinates what he ') would not do himself if the occa sion w »re necessary." The ability as a disciplinarian has been largely instrumental in putting Mr. Fielding where he is to-day. It is the faculty In' has of getting the best out of everything and everybody surrounding him. and his putting of things on a systematic basis. Munitions of Merriment. A GOOD title for the comedy releases coming from the Gl Film Company. Three Iferson subjects you all know about. A fourth " Bferson "' is /'//; /'< rrili'i '/<<•. and in addition there will be five laughtermaking comedies from America, headed by /7c Commuters, Adapted from the American play of the same name by James Forbes. Now you know t!u mystery of those little black and white advertisements in our pa es. D' I TAKE YOUR ™£ W BEST GIRL TO COMMUTERS