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Picture Show Annual 9 r key Ktpt~ thcMouies Wallace Reid, whose death robbed the screen of a boyish charm and breezy cheer- iness that have never been replaced. Francis X. Bushman as Messala, the villain of the piece, and Ramon Novarro, the hero, in " Ben Hut." PICTURESQUE PERSONALITIES OF THE PICTURES—PAST AND PRESENT ALTHOUGH the cinema as we know it now—and by that I mean plays made by moving pictures—is only about eighteen years old (for it was in the spring of 1908 that D. W. Griffith started to direct for the old Biograph), its short history is packed with romance and tragedy. Picture plays there had been before Griffith came on the scene. The first movie that could really be called a picture play was " The Soldier's Courtship," made by an Englishman, Robert W. Paul, on the roof of the Alhambra Theatre in 18% ; but it was in the Biograph Studio that the real start was made with the film play. Here Mary Pickford started her screen career, to be followed later by Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and the three Talmadge sisters. Natalie Talmadge did not take as kindly to film acting as did her sisters, and when Norma and Constance had made a name and the family had gone from New York to Hollywood Natalie went into the business side of the films and held some big positions before she retired on her marriage with Buster Keaton. Most of the actors and actresses in the first pictures directed by D. W. Griffith are unknown to present-day picturegoers, but among them were Owen Moore and Mack Sennett and Flora Finch. B