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W'lIK 1NIHNO
Sept. 25, 1915
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PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER
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IT I'll C IMI.K A producer's duties are not all boer and
Bkitrlcs. This one (Howell Hansel) bad to Bireci a kcene
in Lnbin's ZVUie's ftmuii • v ■ i« From a telegraph-pole.
And Busy Days for the Producer.
Oourse. Miss Dressier plays Tillie in the above-named lilni. Hut Bhe'was Bol 1 In i>uly out who worked hard to make a success of this five-act farcical comedy. Howell Hansel; the director, laboured night and day; He has had much dramatic experience, having "been thi'ee years with Charles Frohman and two years with Liebler and Col, playing leads in A Gentleman of France, Tfie Fourth Estate, The Fi'iht'i: . // ... and Tin Woman, Three year's ago Mr. Hansel decided thai there was a wider field for his activities in the motion-picture world. Hfftegan Ids career as director by producing the film version of Ben Bolt, His next venture was I'!k Million Dollar Mystery, in forty-six reels, which is said to have made a million dollars for its owners,
Left Footlights for Films.
I HAVE always longed to play in downright melodrama, 1 hut somehow I have never got further than to fight a duel and knock a man down!" admits J. R. Tozer. a late member of Charles Hawtrey's Company, who deserted the legitimate stage for picture work, in which be is rapidly coming to the tore. He longs for something thrilling, and there is little doubt that before very long his dramatic talents will win for him plentiful opportunities of the kind that appeal to him a a versatile actor of strong, heroic parts. Mr. Tozer first appeared upon the cinema stage about three years ago, when he played the part of King Solomon in The Brass He was so taken with silent drama work that he was determined to do more, and accepted an offer to play the leading part in Tin Call or the Drum. His role in this' was such a huge success that he was chosen for important parts in Beveral other Cnnard tilms. He also played for B. and C. Cnibn, and If. L. B. Film.-, and it was for the last-mentioned company who offered him a twelve months' contract—that he left the Vaudeville Theatre, where he was playing the lead in Our Boys.
For the past few weeks Mr. Tozer has been resting in glorious Kent, but has just had an excellent offer from a well-known firm, who intend producing a film that will probably cause a big sensation in the cinema world. "The play I most enjoyed," Mr. Tozer declares, " was BZer Nameless el, , lil. m which 1 aet^-il with Elisabeth Risdon."
[n hi? spare moments Mr. Tozer is very fond of writing fiction, and many of his stories have been published. One of them. .( Wooden Bar, appears in this issue. He has a. very real desire, by the way, to serve his country in the present crisis, but is. unfortunately, unfit for the ?^my. He is engaged to be married to a well-known Cardiff lady, and at present his bachelor days are spent m a charming' little flat 'in the West-end of London.
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