Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

I l>l.M(J <v r i, 1915 15 PICTURES KNl) THE PICTUkEGOFR sweetness and tendameM ili.ii wouM have-seotbed the weep ing Jap mother had she I a able to see her The baby, in fact, ».i returned t>> the parents after being used in the film in even better condition than when it u:i^ received • • ' • • What i-. the difference between :i \ esael thai has jasl been torpedoed and Pictures ind Thi Pictdrboobb ? " Lftev trading through hundreds of answers tw • three times over, and reeling as though 1 bad been torpedoed myself, I ii--»i^i»-«i ward |ni/v> 1,. .1 boj and .1 uirl for the follow in. \ torpedoed vessel generally siaas, bu< Pi< rtntEa UJD 'I'm: I'll ii rkgq] 1; survives everything bj always risin Dorothy HiekmtiH (13), //. Ai\ ft < /. Hiyhmiti \ I'll'' veaael has I a ' holed" bj the 'dread Hun.' but Pictures and Thi PicTUREOOERis old by the" hundred.' " (14), 31, McCulloeh Stmt, Olanffow. 'ii- brigbt answers worth reading are ■ The difference is that one g lea .town and the other goes up. " The ressel « ui go under. But Pic 11 res will never K" under. One -inks t.i earth, the other rises in Came. The iii'iis that n -hip has been torpedoed brings sadness into many hearts, whereas Pi< itbh brings gladness and joj in. ill its readers, One is seen in danger . in the other there is .1 danger scene. Phe vessel's sail sinks lower and lower; the Pictures sale rises higher ami higher. Phe vessel is ending us career ami is -,,111 to the bottom bnt ai 6 has rorauiem-ed its i-ai-eer ami will come to 'hi' top. •• One is n\ ,1 mnii'il in the ■ blue ' sea. Ami the ether is turned aver ami ' read, " Thi' one has been hit. ami the other is Ii ' ■ One is Doomed whilst the other is Boomed. i.ns .,1 Mkku' ,six ,»t which will entitle the winner tea speeml prise Bva Preston Stoke-on-Trent), James Briscoe (Manchester) James K. Hingley (Tipton), Coralie L. Denning (Lanes), E. Sydney Dale (Macclesfield), Uvin Jones (South Wales), Lavinia Ptestoh (Stoke-on-Trent), Ivy Neai (Watford), bdgar Kellner (Ghorlton^enmHardy), Albert Riehardson (Brockley), William Smith (Brentford), Nellie Bnsh (Thornton Heath), Alfred Crick (Desborough), I.. Willis (Birmingbam), A. Morrison (Islington), Maud Snell (Leytonstone). A NEW "RIDDLE-ME-REE" COMPETITION. It is many week* sin,.,, you had one. and the following was Bent torn. liy one of yourselves, but rinfortunatel] the sender omitted to include his or her nam.'. H. re it is : — My tirst is M\ s,vntut My third M\ fourth M\ fifth M\ sixth Mi seveatfa Mary Pickford Ruth Roland. -Mary Fuller, Jane Gail, Tom Saiits.lii 1>i t nnt in Fred Paul. ,, Owen Moore. „ " Pimple." ,. Betty Brown. and also in Kurd Sterling. Charles Chaplin, hut not in Alice Joyce. Earl. Williams'. Alma Tavlor. M> eighth Maurice Costelfo, and also ia Florence Turner. My ninth Stewart Rome, Wally Van. Mj tenth Harold Lockweod, Billy Ritchie. My eleventh.. Flora Finch, Edwin August. M\ twelfth „ Tom .Mix. Edith Storey. M\ thirteenth.. Bess,,. Eyton, Harry Benliam. The hidden letters will spell the name of a well-known filmplayer. When you have discovered it write same 011 a postcard addressed to " Riddle-me-ree," is. Adam Street. Strand. W .<_'.. and post to reach me by Monday. October Ath, which happens to be the birthday of Uncle Tim. A Chance of a Lifetime. SETS OF BEAUTIFUL HALF-PLATE PHOTOS depicting the principal scenes in "Flying A" and "Beauty" productions sent all applicants on receipt of Postal Order value 6d. FLYING A" CO., 193, Wardour St., W. >> SOME if FIGURES. 'The Birth of a Nation/ the World's Greatest Photo Play, produced by D. W. Griffith, cost £100,000 to make* Griffith figures on the salary list at £20*000 a year, because he "knows how." He is the World's Greatest Motion Picture Producer. f Under Griffith's controlling hand and brain, 18,000 actors played parts in ' The Birth of a Nation/ In the wild rides of the Ku Klux Klan 3,000 horses were used, and the roads of a whole county commandeered for a day. On the 27th of September, The Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street, Tottenham Court Road, opens with the first presentation in London of this mighty spectacle. Two perhrmances daily at 2.30 and 8.