Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

eon anJ Heard anL Copyright, 1916 Where millions of people gather daily many amusing and interesting things are bound to happen. We want our readers to contribute to this page. One dollar will be paid for each story printed Contributions must not be longer than 100 words and must be written on only one side of the paper.. Be sure to include your name and address. Send to: "Seen and Heard" Dept., Photoplay Magazine, Chicago. Owing to the large number of contributions to this department, it is impossible to return unavailable manuscripts to the authors. Therefore it ivill oblige us if no postage or stamped envelopes be enclosed, as contributions will not be returned. Respectfully Deferred MOTHER, didn't the man and the lady get married in the last picture?" "Yes, dear." "Mother, didn't they have a baby in the next picture?" "Yes, darling." "Well — mother. Can I have a little sister tomorrow ?" Philip Davis. Yonkers, N. Y. $ L. B. Will Grow — and Know THE picture on the screen was of the hero rescuing the girl from a watery grave. He had taken her to shore, and now he supported her in his arms. "Well !" said Little Sister savagely, "it's a wonder he wouldn't kiss her." "Huh !" replied Little Brother belligerently, "aint he done enuff for her already?" Joseph Flanagan, Scran ton, Pa. S> Boy, Page the Brush! HE was small and rather forlorn and quite ragged, and his rumpled hair fell into his eyes. He crept silently into the "movie show" and sat down beside a lady. Presently, observing him, she bent down and whispered kindly: "Little boy, doesn't anyone ever comb your hair?" "Yes'm," he whispered back, "but the people upstairs what lent us the comb has moved away." G. G. Halloran, Newark, N. J. A Potential Murderer LILLIE had an Aunt Lucinda of whom he disapproved wholly. Billie and his mother were watching an eagle skimming a cliff and clutching prey in its talons, on the screen. "Mother," observed Billie, "I wish I had claws like that and could fly high like that." "And why, son ? What would you do ?" "I'd pick up Aunt Lucinda and fly much higher than that with her." 122 Billie's mother (much amused) : "And then what would you do?" "I'd drop her." R. P. Conway, Philadelphia. Pa. * Thanksgiving? Well No THE screen showed a close-up of a man who had looked upon the wine when it was very red indeed and was seeing a good many snakes crawling about. "Mother," whispered small Doris, "do you remember the time father said he had seen red-white-and-blue turkeys with straw hats on?" Mrs. J. J. O'Conncll, Washington, D. C. i Could Still Wiggle IT was at a movie show in the moonshine belt. Two mountaineers came in just in time to see the villain bending over the hero. "I reckon he's drunk," said one, of the prostrate hero. "Naw, he ain't." said the other; "I just saw his fingers move." /. /. Stork, Ehnhurst. L. I. ® Quite Old Enough THE screen showed a little boy saying his prayers on his grandfather's knees. Six-year-old Willie : What is he doing. Aunt Mary? Aunt Mary : He is asking God to take care of his grandfather. Willie: Isn't he old enough to take care of himself? Miss Sophie Greenfield. Montreal. W-c-1-1. a Little THE film displayed several richly gowned women, decollete, seated in an opera box. "That makes a fine picture," remarked a woman in the audience to her husband. "Yes," he answered, "but isn't it a good bit under exposed?" Marcel Gaboury, Montreal.