Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)
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PicKires and Pic hd reaver
JANUARY 1924
What QoYou TKitAk?
Your Views And Ours
PRAISE for the Christmas PICTUREGOER reaches me by every post. From one confirmed grumbler I have received a letter saying : " Your Getting Better Christmas issue is Every Month, great. But can you keep it up?" The answer is" an emphatic affirmative. " Getting Better Every Month " will be our slogan for the New Year, and there are many treats in store for our readers. Next month's issue, our special All British Number to coincide with the February big push for British pictures, will be a souvenir edition that every picturegoer will wish to treasure. Let me warn you in advance not to take a chance with this issue. The demand is certain to be enormous. Avoid disappointment by ordering your copy now.
" WITH eyeballs bloodshot and tired. With eyelids heavy and red. A film fan sat on a ninepenny seat, and these were the words he said : Reels, The Song Reels, Reels, pad
of the Short. ding and titles galore, oh, woe is me, why can't we see those two-reel films once more? I'm tired of sixreel films ; preserve me from the sight of films that start at half-past six and finish late at night. I laugh at Felix the Cat. The Leather Pushers is great. But I hate the men who make long films, with a hard and bitter hate."
With eyelids heavy and red, with forehead wrinkled in thought, a film fan sat on his ninepenny seat, snort
Kinema topics of general interest are dealt with on this page each month. All " Picturegoer " readers who wish to participate in our debates are invited to write to " The Thinker," 93, Long Acre, London, W.C.2.
ing an angry snort. And then in a voice of dolorous turn (would that producers would listen and learn), he sang the " Song of the Short." — Peggy (Wimbledon).
44 DEFERENCE leading men,"
writes Jumbo. " Nix on
Valentino. Novello is milk-and
watery. Meighan is mushy. Novarro
is kiddish. Monte
Making it Blue gives me
Snappy. those Sad-Eyed
Hero Blues. Lew Cody gives me the willies. Can't get a thrill out of Percy Marmont. Cullen Landis leaves me cold. I dislike Kenneth Harlan. Eugene O'Brien means nothing in my young life. Give me virility. Give me strength. Give me rugged beauty. Give me courage. Give me the great outdoors. Give me broad-shoulders. Give me a MAN. Give me Tom Mix ! "
Take the lot, Jumbo, and give me peace.
" IS it maiden madness to fall in
love with a shadow, man?"
inquires Sentimental. " Don't say
yes until you have heard my story.
You see, in all my
An Idyll of life I have never
the Screen. had a lover. I
was the loneliest girl in the world until I saw my ideal man on the silver-sheet, but now I feel perfectly happy. He is not a star, but he appears in a good many pictures, and by going around from kinema to kinema I never miss a week without seeing him. I know we shall never meet, and I have never
written to him, but I am content to love him from afar. My shadowlover gives me an interest in life that was lacking before. Friends tell me that I am morbid-minded. What do other readers think? "
44 T THINK one reason why German pictures have been so successful, is because they make such a welcome change from the general
run of screen pro
Getting into ductions. To my
a Groove. mind, British and
American movie makers have got into a deep groove with their pictures. They keep giving us the same type of story with the same stars over and over again, and not one film in a hundred makes any attempt to get away from the beaten track. Have our own moviemakers no ideas, no originality? Why do not the great creative brains of this country write direct for the screen?" — M. C. (Worcester).
44 A CCORDING to one of the
newspapers, Lillian Gish has
decided to play ' Juliet ' in Romeo
and Jidiet, and other players with
an eye on the
Why Do They same part are
Do It? Norma Tal
madge and Mary Pickford. Of the three I prefer Lillian Gish, but in my opinion not one of the players I have named is suited to the part. Surely Mary Pickford knows her own limitations well enough to realise this? Is it foolish vanity that prompts stars to essay roles that they cannot hope to fill successfullv?" — M-. M. (London).
44 OERE are some New Year
Resolutions compiled by me
with apologies to the stars concerned.
William S. Hart has Resolved to Dry
those Tears. SesSome New Year sue Havakawa Resolutions. has Resolved to
practise kissing. Charlie Chaplin has Resolved to make a picture. George has Resolved to retire into a Monastery. Pearl White has Resolved to retire into another convent. Swedish Biograph have Resolved to make a nice, cheery picture. Buster Keaton has Resolved to smile. Cecil B. De Mille has Resolved to make a picture that will contain no flashlocks to bygone ages.— Carol (Manchester).
To which I would add that the Editor of the PICTUREGOER has Resolved to make Volume Seven the lust of the Bunch, and he means to keep his resolution. The Thinker.