Pictures and the Picturegoer (April - September 1915)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 54 Picture News and Notes ARE you voting? If not, why not (Jut contest is in its last w ■ Edgar Jones's hobby is collecting specimen butterflies. * # " Mice and Men," which Sir J. Forbes Ronertson made go suc^essf ill, is being filmed by Famous Flayers. * # # House Peters, who will play opposite Blahcne Saweet in ijasky productions, is ;ui iiinglishman, born at Jtfristol, and 6erved through tlie rSoer war. * # Pale bine collars are worn by male performers in the oeiig studios. White collars caused reneeuon winch resulted in lost details in the photographs. * # # A cafe at Blyth is advertising "'Keystone' peas without equal." We already had tue butcher witn "Hunny" rabbits, and the fruiterer with "JNorinand "-y pippins ! * =& # Over sixty theatres in London alone have already booted Hepwortn's great til m '• Jjarnany itiidge.''" No excuse tliis tune for readers who write they cannot find this picture and want it. Would you be so kind to Let me know if you could find me a place in your Co? i have always had my mind pn Film acting 1 am sixteen lasc birthday. Willing to do anything I am driving a engine at preasant." — A letter to the H'amoas Plai/cfs Company. ,: No matter how small the percentage of soldiers drawn into the picture-shows on a Sunday evening." says the t£oo Gazette, " we adhere to the belief that the cinemas compare favourably with other inducements held out to the young private or the young officer." * * * "Superior persons of our acquaintance." says the Sn(Ji_/tl Celegvaph, "have told us that our lining for picture-shov s is a sign either of a depraved mind or a weakening intellect — possibly a mixture of both. yV ell, we can't help it. VVe like the pictures, and we go as often as the very scanty leisure of an exceptionally busy person will allow. If we had more time (and more shillings to spare) we should go more frequent ly." A V.IUI cs»? iNo! " I NEVER had to take any 1 dare-devil chances as lots of us do." said Blanche Sweet toan inters iewer. " The nearest I ever came to it was in ' '1'he Lonedale Opel ator,' when 1 had to ride in the cab of a locomotive. And I ha\e never played hea\ ieseithur " after a brief mental review " .1 suppose because I am a hj,< mde. No blonde can look like a \ illainess. That is left for the brunettes. Blondes don't look t he part. I have alwa\ the heroine or the fair c b-e M-d, whichever if chanced Shelling the Pictures. AS yel i here is 1 1 ily oni \ illag ■ at the Fr< ssinga cinema theatre", but the films (supplied free of charge by the Hepworth Company) are enormously popular with the soldiers. I ly this hall was heavily sh during the progress of the pictures. The Camera Alan. YOU'LL find him wherever men are doing big things, and you'll know him by his camera. Generally heis a gentleman; but he isn't finical i:i his language if you step between his lens and his picture. His business, says a writer in the Sunday Magazine, is the business of bottling history, as one would bottle sunshine, were it possible, to be released later, and he tells his story in writing on the wall that all can read. Yon have seen him. He is the moving-picture camera man. Chicago Camera Campaign. MOVING-PICTURES for campaign purposes is the latest fashion in the film world. The Mayor of Chicago, a candidate for re-election has had a complete set of pictures taken by the Essanay Company. In these he is seen from the time he takes breakfast in the morning to his return home in the evening, showing him at his desk in the city hall in all his routine duties of the day. They include also the public buildings erected during his terms, street and pier construction work, and a score of enterprises which the Mayor was instrumental in starting. The pictures are shown at campaign meetings where the Mayor is billed fco sp sab. Great "Pictuie" Ci.y Opened. WITH cannon booming, fireworks blazing, and thousand cheering. Universal City at Los Angeles, the only city m the world built and used exclusively for the production of motionpictures, was formally opened to the public last month. Fully 20,00 ' persons visited the city on the opening day, including numerous wealthy tourists. The afternoon was spent most interestingly. First came a review of the Universal producing companies at work in the various stage settings on the main stage, which can ace immodate sixteen producing companies at oi\r<\ Then, while crowds as large and enthusiastic as those at any big football match sat on the green hillsides, the .t i v. F. A Ariui. 24, : l"! Bison Company produced a thrilling l-sceue. The c intents of a I • he hillside were let !•■ and swept away for a Western mi 1, w Idle cow I led Marie Walcamp from a band of Indians. Universal City exceeds all anticipations. Its five hundi _ive easy access to lofty mountains, can. ered peaks, green hills. flowered valleys, plains, and rivers. It •is a motion-picture city in appearai nment, and inhabitants. ' Lady Novelist V.sits Studio. TO see "The Exploits of Elaii, the making. Mi A. X. Williamson, who with her hushand has written many popular works of fiction, ; paid a recent visit to the Jersey City Studio of Patlk Frcres. It impi 1 her so much that on her return t" New York she wrote:— " I was s>> afraid of 1 >eiiig late that I woke at five o'clock. Well, the tiling itself was deliciously ghostly and crisply dramatic. It gave me as new a thrill as if in a dream-walk along the Milky Way. Not that it wa> one bit like the Milky Way getting to Jersey City. I shouldn't even have known that it was Jersey City when we got there if I hadn't been told. It Mr. Theodore Wharton (isn't he Prime Minister or Secretary of War of Pa; filmland?) who informed me that J( 1 City is the ideal home for a stu because it's ringed round with all the b>st scenery in the world ? If he w Lilians or smugglers' caves, or waterfalls, rivers, or yachts, he simply Intake a short walk to find them, and 2 hack for lunch. What Nature thoughtlessly failed to provide has I died by some genius or other iuside the studio. There are streets and forests, temples, ancient and modern. Yon merely have to say : ' Let there be' an Elizabethan house or an opium den, and there is one." A Charming "Foreword." PICTURES have been descrih the universal language of the age. in which we live. Weber claims that music is the universal speech of mankind. By the happy combination then of pood picture and pleasing music one finds the magic kej which gives easy a so !SS to the great stories of every land which unfold to us the myst and wonders of countries we have nevci seen, which enable us to see and enjoy the world's great dramas, tragedies, comedies. Pictures and music know no barriers of speech, no limitations. "Occasionally there will l> pictures which., by reason of 1 deep human interest, will put you in a serious mood, but always there will be picture! which will grip your interest pictures which will make yol glad, will fill your soul witl laughter, and will eliminate from your system the day; accumulation of household Ol business anxieties." Fr Associated Pro rincial Picture Houses, Ltd., fo% '!,, opening of thtirnew Picture W sbury,