Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)

/t*/ \jr ts ^> tsr i w r /f u'tryv/c1 ;\uvr,.UDf.K iy<£-+ "Duck for Ever " has started a small cyclone around these parts. Letters of agreement and disagreement have come in so fast and so rr r~, n furious that I To The Per daren>t rf them sistentPen The same applies to Pushers. the red_hotFPRudy_ fans, inspired Ivor-Invokers, and Matheson Lang Moaners, who seem to have spent the greater part of the month at their writing desks. ' Well, I've carefully perused all your epistles and you all have my sympathy. But I'm strictly neutral, so don't start slinging brickbats hitherwards. Your defences are most able, " Romeo could learn quite a lot about loving from Rudy," says Rudy's Champion (Wilts.) "Rudy, Ramon and Ivor are simply sublime," writes W. T. (London). And so on ad infinitum. More power to your elbows, my little ones, your efforts keep the post office going and gladden THE THINKER'S heart. " As an American at present living in England, I should like to say how interesting I find your paper and specially your page of discussions. I've always This one likes been interested in B's. British films, since I saw Clive Brook and Fay Compton in This Freedom. I must say it amuses me intensely to hear of everyone raving over Valentino, Novarro, Milton Sills, BuckJones, etc., when there arc so many Britishers better than they; this conclusion I have arrived at after carefully studying the players in both countries. Of all of them I award the palm to Clive Brook, and next to him would place Dick Barthelmess. " T think the former the most perfect example of a Britisher and a gentleman that one could find anywhere, his characterisations are always perfect — A Bouquet for witness his dual Brook. role in Out to Win. I venture to say that no other actor could have played the difficult part of the hero in Woman to Woman so perfectly. He is remarkably good-looking if a trifle stern, and as strong a personality as one could wish to find. I take off my hat to him now that Ince has secured him. I repeat that England's loss is America's gain. For THE PICTUREGOER I have nothing but praise, it is so level-headed and fairminded, not like some of our hysterical movie magazines." — Yank (Grimsby). " JLIow is it that fans are not fonder of Alice Terry?" enquires Harley (Ireland). " I place her as the most beautiful actress on the screen, without ex Thrue for ception. She is also You, Colleen ! one of the few who can really act, and has a wonderfully expressive face. Alice never grimaces, nor exaggerates — sure signs of mediocrity. The finest comment on her was a subtitle in The Conquering Power which read, ' My cousin has a face like an angel.' Alice Tern' has a ' good ' face and that is the best description I can give about it. I think I could write more than you could ever read in the praise of Alice Terry." flf you saw the quantity of fan letters we forward to Alice Tern,-, you'd retract your query, Harley Mind Rex Ingram doesn't get on your track, he'll be here about the time this issue is on sale.] C. H. B. (Blaydes). " T have read with much interest, various readers' views concerning types of screen heroes, especially ' The Perfect Lover ' type. I should like to voice my Just a Little opinions on certain Love. ' types ' with the hope of finding out how many agree and how many disagree with them. For good looks, good acting and good dress give me Rudolph Valentino ; for strength and manliness, John Bowers; for dash and daring, Richard Barthelmess (as in The Fighting Blade); for the youthful lover, Cullen Landis ; but as the PERFECT lover, give me Harrison Ford. What do you think? — Fordite (Bristol). "J-Ierewith one or two suggestions for your January number. Firstly, to Hades with ' Planet ' articles and ' Health and Beauty ' stuff ! Some Mr> Thin^er» }'ou Strinoent asked us what we c„ „„„;,• thought, we've told suggestions. b x>. „ < yy you. Drop Stars at Home,'' and give us souvenirs of films as in earlv numbers of THE PICTUREGOER. Increase British Pages to four, give us better paper in 1924. We won't desert our paper, we started in 1914 and we have all PICTURES vols. We want ours to be the premier paper of all." — Six Improvers (Small Heath, B'ham). [Motion seconded, my friends. We'll see what we can do towards it in the Xmas issue. Sorry we can't oblige you re Advert, pages, we would if we could, believe me.] yhe Xmas PICTUREGOER boasts of the loveliest cover we have, as yet, ever given you. It is a multicolour reproduction of the Magic Carpet scene in The A ]\'ord in Thief of Bagdad. Your Ear. The issue itself is simply packed with good things from cover to cover. Place your order now to be sure of getting vour copv. THE THINKER.