Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

FlCTURi.5 AND THE PICTUREGOER «\Vr;:K ending Oct. 2, 1915 Picture News and Notes MANY readers have asked us when The Juggernaut (the big Vitagraph drama) is to be released. In January as a Gaumont Exclusive. # * * # "A Select Circle confined to people who have not seen Charlie" has been i'< unied. The members, says the < faiema, H-, u number four. Who. can they he ? # * * * A < hild's Prayer :— ' Bless father and mother and King and Queen, and all our brave soldiers and sailors who are fighting for us, especially Charlie Chaplin."— Dull 11 Sketch. # " * * * We hear that The Mystery of a Hansom Cab which B. and 0. have made for the Ideal is a winner. The old-time cab. as compared with the modern taxi, was slow, but it's the "Mystery" of course whichhas done the trick. # * * * Constance Collier, the well-known actress, is said to be going out to California for film work. We have r. ad also that Sir Herbert Tree is going to appear before the cinema camera in America. It's a long, long way to England ! # * * » Writes a reader:— "I looked in at a cinema and found a funeral procession passing on the screen. The lady-pianist •was playing ' We all go the seme way Jiome!'" Quite time she went, anyway. # * * * " Up to the present no comedian has succeeded in establishing popularity both on the halls and in the pictures, says the Bioscope, but Billy Merson maybe the first to accomplish theiask." The man in possession— so to sp( ak. # # * * Alexander Dumas wrote The Three Guard-men, The Count of Monte Crist 0. and a lot of other books. Alexander was some writer, believe us! On a bet. he wrote an entire volume in a week which is even more rapid work than that accomplished by photoplay writers. # * * * Our memory reverts back to the film when some brave and beautiful girl ran forward, every time an accident happened, and. tearing her white petticoat into strips, made a tourniquet for the victim. Now we don't suppose she'd have anything tearable about her person except a handkerchief and a powder-rag! # # * * "Within a few years lrom now large numbers of British' men and women will be earning good incomes by writing for the pictures, and the output of films produced bv British brains and enterprise (says Leonard Williams in the Daily Mail) will have grown to some hundreds of times its present figure." Perhaps'. # # * * Chang's Rest-Cure. '• f^HANG," the valuable ourang \^> outang, who made himself ill the other week, was dying for three solid days. Uuring his last moments some of Selig's pretty actresses were called in to tempt him with costly delicacies. The miracle worked, and the animal is now him self again. "Chang" is as artful as a wagon-load of human beings, and w« wonder if he ever was ill. Hidden Talent. THE following letter was received by the Famous Players Company:— "'I am desirous of becoming a Picture A 'tor. and am writing to enquire whether you would be prepared to engage me. I should prefer to be a Dramatic Actor, because I imagine I could act better as a Dramatist than as a Comedian. I am at present with a local firm of Auctioneers, having only left school last August, but sh mid prefer t> be an Actor, as 1 have had an ambition to become one ever since I thought of starting in business, and feel sure that with about three weeks training, I should be able to do anything that was required of me. I am 15 years of age. stand 6 feet in height, so with a little disguise, would make a good actor." FUN ON THE FILM. : Who's vo' in mourning to '-. ■■ Why. de wife of <lc gon'man what gave me (lis overcoat.' (A Cartoon by Henry Mayer for Universal Films.) " Carried Away." BECAUSE Fay Tincher. the Komic comedian, became excited during the staging of a scene in I «icinding It it cost her."./. This amount was used in restoring a piece of statuary borrowed for the occasion, The scene was being enacted in an artist's studio, and in her excitement the cane she was wielding became unmanageable and knocked the statue from its pedestal. Kay likes to make a "hit" in every scene, but she does not want the cane again when statues are around. A Moving Picture Aliracle. WE understand thai Billie Ritchie lias received a tribute to his wonderful fun-making powers that is without parallel in the whole historj of the stage. When the L-KO comedy, The Fatal Note, was being presented at the Palace. Aintree. near Liverpool, Billie Ritchie's tunny antics SO convulsed the audience t hat Corporal Robert Beck who had been invalided home from the war as a deaf mute, suddenly recovered his powers of speech, and burst into a peal of hearty laughter. Not only was he able to laugh, but he can now talk and hear as well l>efore. so that the cure wrought by Billie is little short of miracuh Comedy Serial Coming. SINCE ihe time when Mr. Selig fir-t inaugurated the film serial •■ The Advend Kalhlyn moving-picture market h -■■•! a deluge of "' perils."' " adventui " episodes." Yet it has remained the house of Selig to introduce ano; idea in filmland. It is not what might be termed a "serial"' this time. 1-.. series of twelve comedies, each in I parts, complete in itself. This which will be issued under the title of The < 'hronicles ■■*' I crowded with good, healthy humour. There will lie no "slap-stick" comedy and no vulgarity, but there will be plenty of logically humorous situati guaranteed to incite unaffected laugh In Love with California. FANNY WARD, who will be Been later in The Marriage o* Kit/ Lasky production, has fallen in love with California. " It was, in a way. very difficult for the first few days.'" ?he says. " I was nervous of course, because I realised 1 knew nothing about pic; work. I am all right now though. Will yon believe that I really can't s) after seven o'clock in the morning w ide awake and just glad to get up? o'clock is my New York hour. I d> know when I have taken such a fancy to any place in my life. Any one who doesn't like Los Angeles must have something wrong with him. there's a screw loose somewhere. Yes. I am willing to sell my English homes."' A Cure for the Screen Struck. A GIRL who worried the producei .~\ the episodes of Kalems // Helen Railroad Series for a month. in her effort to land a position as an actress, has been cured of her yearning for a photoplay career. To get rid of her the producer invited the young lady to accompany the players who were about to work in' the climax of A"< a forthcoming episode. The guest saw Helen drop from a boom-hook to the tender of a speeding train, heard the producer explain that she would have to perform similar stunts if he enga-. her— and took the first train home ! Talking of Feet ! THE following is a new and true story of Charlie Chaplin. During a lull in the production of a film several of his pals chaffed him about his uni pedal extremities, which they compared to tramcars, gunboats, and other ci sal apparatus Charlie pretended t< offended, and strolled away. A lewminutes later he came back apparently thrilling with horror and excitement. "Talking of feet." he gasped. "1-1 just seen a man drop two hundred leetj into the square outside'.' ""What. ejaculated his listeners. starting to \ feet with blanched faces. " How sin eking! "Of course, the poor fell killed'-'" " No." replied Charlie, nonchalantly twirling his cane; "you he dropped two hundred feet— of nlm .