Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

MOTION PICTURE A New Popularity Contest! And It Will Be the Greatest Ever Conducted by Any Publication Picture players come and go. New faces are constantly appearing among the great players of the day, and many of those who were popular a few years ago are now little known. Which ones are the most popular today? We are desirous of knowing, and we are going to let you decide, thru the medium of the oldest, largest, best and most representative publication in the world. The Great Popularity Contest for the Players will give you an opportunity to vote for your favorite. It will give you an opportunity to show your appreciation for that player who has afforded you the most enjoyment, and this kind of appreciation is equivalent to applause. Thirty-six Prizes to Players Thirty-six prizes will be given to those players who receive the most votes, and you will surely want to see your favorite among the winners. How Votes Will Be Counted Each issue of the MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE, beginning with this one, will contain a coupon which, when properly filled out and mailed to us, will count 10 votes. Each issue of the MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC, beginning with the May number, will contain a coupon good for 25 votes. A year’s subscription to the MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE will count 100 votes and a year’s subscription to the MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC 150 votes. Subscription price: MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE, $1.50; MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC, $1.75. Special Prizes to Readers A cash bonus, divided into first, second and third prizes, will be given to those who send in the most subscriptions to either the MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE or MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC and the most votes during each month. If you desire to become a special solicitor, write today for particulars. Further announcement as to the time of the closing of this contest and as to the prizes will be made in the next issue of this magazine. Begin voting now by sending in the coupon which you find in this issue or your subscription to the MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE or MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC. Cut this coupon out and mail to the MOTION PICTURE PUBLISHING CO., 175 Duffield St., Brooklyn, N. Y., or enclose with other mail to the same address. GREAT POPULARITY CONTEST conducted by the MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE. I desire to cast my vote for as my favorite player. Name Address Note. — In sending in subscriptions, write on a separate slip of paper the name of the player for whom you wish to vote. No coupon is necessary. 25 Votes Boys of the Screen ( Continued from page 22) with Eclair as the villain in a “kid series.” He played the boy role in “Alias Jimmy Valentine” and had the fresh office boy part in “The Little Church Around the Corner.” In “Hearts of Men,” a Charles K. Harris picture, a delightful story of children is interwoven, in which Master Frank Longacre and Nicholas Long, Jr., are rivals for the friendship of charming little Ethelmary Oakland, while a crowd of other youngsters are used in several school scenes. These, then, are some of our principal boy friends in the films, and they may bfe trusted to do full justice to the American boy as we know him in our everyday life. Naturally enough, these clever boy actors are called upon to do hazardous stunts. Sometimes they find themselves in a tight fix. But they never balk or show the white feather; they are heroes both inside and out. During the taking of a scene on the St. John’s River in Florida, recently, little Georgie Hollister was thrown fifty feet out into the stream, instead of a few feet, as the director had planned. The boy could not swim and he was in a dangerous plight. He was rescued, true enough, but it was a close call. “That nearly got me that time,” he exclaimed, as they laid him out comfortably in the back seat of an automobile; “but will it — will it make a good picture?” That is the spirit of our boy friends in the films. Ditmars in Camera Wonderland ( Continued from page 19) ously for victory. In this connection it is well to state that not even the stage manager was able to prevent the excitement of the scene from communicating to the audience in the grand-stand, and in the last lap the more excited spectators climbed the grand-stand railing and entered the race. Two great difficulties had to be overcome in this scene. One was to get all the contestants off when the monkey fired the starting-gun, and the other to distribute handicaps so skilfully that the swiftest could not race ahead of the less speedy. Each detail had to be worked out, and each animal having a “speaking” part had to be trained. It required four months’ steady work before the camera man was called in. This scene required a stage of forty feet. The next most difficult performance required a stage the size of a postage stamp. Upon this performed the star of the fly juggling troupe. This fly rides into the arena in a chair upon the back of a beetle ; then it juggles dumb-bells. The children will be delighted with what has recently been done. While the work of Mr. Ditmars’ dramatic school is not strictly scientific, it will be of great value in promoting an interest in animals among children, to say nothing of grown-up folks. He is attempting to do with the actual subjects what Kipling did in the Jungle Tales with imaginary ones. And as for Alice in Wonderland and her Walrus and her Hare, they were pretty flat creatures to the real actor birds and beasties of today. ( Sixty eight)