Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

k: kndi.no Oct. j, wis 13 PICTURES AMD THE PICTUREGOER OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. If You Cannot Get "Pictures." ■ I have no trouble whatever in getting my oopj evorj week. 1 gave a standing order to »•>> newsagent months ago, and be never Fails me. M> dear l'i. n axa is always on the doormat on Saturday mornings. ( t 'laphtun Junction). [II ill disappoin l)i>. | Archibald! Certainly Not! "A friend of miuo says lib knows somebodt that has just come from America, and this American part) told biro that Maurice Costello bad a ' fearfid row' with Florence Turner in a public street. Florence Turrior seemed to have boon in the wrong, and Cos tello said that he would leave the Vitagraph Company ifshedidnot leave. Hence Florence Turner coming to London. Now the person who told my friend all this said a report of the affair appeared in three American papers one being the Brooklyn C 1 should be pleasod it you would tell me if you have, heard au] thing about it. I. mi; F.i. (.London). Train Smashed Indoors! " I do wish 1 could undoratand how BIm Bcenerj and properties are 'created. The other day a friend of mine, who knows ;l cinema producer, showed me a roll of poster* bills he had had riven to hiin. and assured me that the play they represented had been taken entirely in the studios. One pieturV showed a terrible railway smash two trains, a length of railroad, ami' a house in the background. Several carriages of both trails were smashed. I can understand the railway lines and the house hoing sham hut the trains, that is where I am at a loss. Can you tell me how it is doner " H. L. (Auerlcy). It's Graat! Ifs Wonderful. • 1 had read so ranch about My Old Dutch 111 your paper (which I wouldn t miss for worlds; that I rang up ray favourite cinema fco inquire when he was showing it. and this was his reply: ' It's on this very week. And let me tell you, sor. tint it s the foinest film Oi ve iver shown. Oi've niver, until now, recommended any particular film, but even it my opposition house was showing it I'd feel loike standing out in Sackville Street and yelling about it. It's (Treat simply wonder: ful ' That night I went and took my l>st girl, and we found that it was all ho de Bcribed and more. My sweetheart cried, and she declares that I did as well, but 1 wont admit that. C. J. (Dublin). Wanted at the Front. "I have just-seen the Hepworth Comedies as shown to our Tommies at the Front, and it is my opinion, and the opinion of many others, that the cinema must now plava very prominent part 111 the entertainment of our heroes. \\ hat is more likely to raise the drooping spirits of a jaded soldier than a -rood, rousing comedy Now my word is— Chaplin must go. He is wanted somewhere near the fightnig hue.' He is great— inimitable -the One and Only. \\ minded soldiers home from the Front have rapidly developed severe attacks of Chaphnitis, and have communicated it to then pais on their return to the trenches. It is the duty of the great B.1J. to supply all the wants of their defenders, ami the greatest want of these is Charlie. Another favourite wanted there is Mabel Normand. How would light comedy suit Vivian Rich? .tommy would love her so ! " J. M'Q. (Edinburgh). If you find it difficult to obtain Pictures ' regularly tell your newsagent so. He can get it if you give him the order. RUTH STONEHOUSE. YOU know that Henry B. Walthall is Essanay's new leading man, and that he appears ill the famous Character Drama, "Temper." That is enough to make ever}' exhibitor desire to show this film, aud we know that whenever it is shown in the House near them the readers of " Pictures " will want to see it. But without beautiful Ruth Stonekouse the play would lack much of its interest, for her splendid acting as Rose Claybourne lifts the play right out of the ordinary. You have real so much about her in " Pictures" that further comment is needless, but if ee TEMPER, 99 A Three-Act Character Drama, is not on your exhibitor's list we know he will be glad if you will remind him about it. Point out that it is an THE EXCLUSIVE FILM Essrniay Film Service, Ltd., 22, Sobo Square, London, W.