Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTURES AND THE P1CTUREGOER 3L0 w'kfk kndi? Jan. Picture News and Notes HOORAY! We'rea centipede! * # "Why: I! cause l't< TUBES has scored one hundred w< * # This is our one hundredth number since " Picti res " and " The Picturegoer" (the last-named paper Laving b eu started by our Editor) were combined. * # # Like Cliartie's Aunt, we are still running, and, with your help, will run for many more hundreds of weeks —we almost wrote years! * # A New Year's Resolution : Cut oat " That Night " from sub-titles. # * * # The President of China is stated to have thirty-one children. Should he decide to produce films he will have a cheap stock company. # # # * * Cabinet has been shown for the first time in Paris at the great Vaudeville Theatre on the Boulevard des Italiens, which has been opensd as a cinema. How would you like to be sweetheart, wife, mother, daughter, aunt, and grandmother to one man ? Eugenie Besserer, the Selig player, has been such — for screen purposes only. # # ■ # * A Corner in Dimples. DON'T attempt to manufacture dimples; they are a monopolised product, and Lillian Walker has the motion-picture field all to herself. The other day the popular Vitagraph player received a letter from a girl admirer, who, desiring a beauty dent on each cheek, endured great pain, but all to no avail. Our Cover Portrait. IF the reception accorded to The Adventures of Deadwoo 1 Dick, which we witnessed at a cinema recently, is any criterion, this English " Ideal " series is in for a good time. Fred Paul is really splendid, and a fine photograph of him as the hero in these six stirring pictures is given on our front cover. We might remind our readers that a pennj edition of these. stox'ies has now been issued. Ford, the Fox and the Film. RECENTLY the spare time of every Keystone camera-man has been taken up in an attempt to secure close-ups of a running fox. Ford Sterling, who is directing a comedy which contains a hunting scene, ottered twenty-five dollars for twenty-five feet of film showing the escaping fox. Kenneth McLean camera-man cor the Sterling Company, succeeded in winning the prize, lb secured some exceptional film by placing bis camera on the running board of an automobile, and after Betting the Eos tree kepi speeding alongside of it. THE PICTURE PLAYER'S HOLIDAY. No. 9. Charles Rock as Margaret Joslin (Sophie Clutts), Essauay player. PJayers' Popularity in Brazil. THE following players came out top favourites in a picture-players" con. test conducted by a leading newspaper in Brazil. The numbers indicate the votes polled :— Actresses : Frances, a Bertini. 9.871; Asta Neilsen. 9»,235; Gabrielle Robinne, 8,179; Cleo Madison, 6,201; Grace Cunard.5,64tf. Actors: Waldemar Psilander. 10,382; Kinilio Ghione, 8,513 ; Arthur Johnson, s.:N_>. Fun Across the Pond. PHILADELPHIA filmland met Philadelphia "fan" land at Philadelphia Funland recently. The proverbial "merry marriage bell" was cast in the shade for the yet more merry " movie " belles, who were on hand in great numbers, to be gazed at with interest and delight by their yet more numerous number of admirers. All the players in town mingled with thousands of non-players, and representatives of several big film houses each had their private box. Pathe took along a mascot, a large gold-coloared live rooster, which was paraded around the ballroom at intervals. Who knows — perhaps after the war even London filmland may rise to something similar. An American Story. MR. JUSTICE COLERIDGE having decided that the correct pronunciation is Kineema, a number of learned people, says the Bioscope, have rushed into print on the subject, much, of course, to their own gratificati' :i. [ am certain that 0 eople will continue it's i ." at any rate. Which reminds I -to. y of tl an lady and the Irishman. Said the lady, in el her "' vac d "t ;.. and on coming out we dived into the din iest little jitn bus ; . it was a drit arid then some. Our crowd was tick to death when I stepped right into I rein-flivver's seat-ana told him 1 could do a stunt with the gees that would make any professional guy qnit. He didn"t hold on to th it, >urs ■. the poor old dear couldn't una Who Wants Charlie Chap.in ? WE do not mean in the flesh, or on the film, but in imitation marble, so that you can stand him on your piano or drawing-room mantelshelf. We have seen this charmingly lifelike model of Charlie. It sands nin3 inches high, and any reader of Pictures may obtain one foreighteenpence (sixpence extra for postage} from Moss Empires, Ltd. 86, Charing Ci Road, London, W.C. Clever Bird Actor. AN important part in the latest production by the Essanay Company is played by a raven. In fact it plays the title-riMe in the screen version, in si:-: parts, of Edgar Allan Poe's immortal work The Raven. At first tl e bird was exceedingly difficult to train. It refused to eat. and at rehearsals came exceedingly obstreperous, and the only part of the poem it seemed likely t >" realise was •Quoth the Raven. • Nevermore.'" It quickly grew accustomed to its new surroundings, however, and, judging by its appearance on the film, one would imagine that it had had years of experience as a film artist. In* this picture the part of Poe is played by Henry B. Walthall. Staging a Big Indian Picture. PRODUCER THOMAS H. 1NCB is making preparations for the staging of an elaborate Indian drama. Sixty five full-blooded Indians were brought tolnceville last week by W. A. Brooks, and fifty more of the redskins arrived t his week. The Indians, who are mostly of the Sioux tribe, are occupying a complete village of tej at [nceville. Trey are splendid specimens of their race, and range in from two months to ninety-two years, the youngest being a lusty-voiced papoose and the oldest a well preserved old chieftain. Negotiations arc under way for even more of the bronzed warriors, and W. A. Brooks has been instructed to comb the country for all available redskins. It is expected that within a few weeks Producer luce will have at his disposal several hundred Indians to appear in the first of the Tiiangle-Kay-Bee Indian series. ® ^'COMMUTERS COMMUTE?