Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 48 -will flock to see it. That .is not the case; the something good must be supported by a personality that the public ■ I in. Until British producers grasp these facts I forecast a big slump in cihema shares, and a corresponding rise in music-hall prosperity." Lyceum-players on Screen. IT is not ever j player of the"regnlar" stage who can make a success of picture-acting, but several of the Xiondon Lyceum players have done so. Lauderdale Maitland and Nina Lynn, who appeared there in Her Fbrftia MurriiKii ■ . recently wei'e in the film version of 'I In Veggctr-yirl'is Wedding, the former as " Jack Cunningham " and the latter as "Maud Villiers." Miss Lynn also played in The <ih-l Who Tool, the Wrong Turning, the latest of Walter Melville's dramas to be " picturised " by the British Empire Films. Limited. .Alice Befmore, C. F. Collings, and Wingold Lawrence, all members of the Lyceum Company, also played leading parts in this Mebviflian film-play. The Cafe-C n ma in Paris. THE other evening I went to Gaumont, on the Place Clichy (writes "Percival" in the Ueferei . and found a crowded house. The pictures herein Paris do not avoid tiie war. And the house, which is a huge one, for the Paris Gaumont" is in the old Hippodrome, was packed to .overflowing with a very representative Parisian public. The Paris Gaumont has one interesting feature which ought to do well in London. You know how well you can see moving pictures from the Lack of the stalls. Here in Paris, between the stalls and the promenade. Gaumont has set up narrow little tables with tinyshaded lamps on them and seats for two or four. Ton can be served with harmless drinks and enjoy the movies, as it were, from a caj'c. You may smoke all over "DON'TS" FOR PICTURE PIANISTS. OONT 6MIIE AT THE MANNER SWIFF. IF SHt IS UNDEH 1*0. DONT DO THi^ AT Tut iNTLRVM . PfOPtE nay MisrAk'k rou FOK Tut • DONT LOOK TOO PLEASED AT TREA&URY ON SATURDAY DONT F0R<,E r that Vbu «R| TO PLA\ SOMtTltlLS W'eek ending Oct. 16, 1915 the bouse. There is au interval dn which you may stroll about loves to stroll about, and • and pris E a iati.n the • hall turn, and the orchestra is throughout. The Thing that Mattered. Tin lira da] l ■: I found A mighty crowd collected. ill VI v -■;■-; sited, Ai :n that vast throng v> frightfully excited. .\ 1 clrcw a man aside, 1 ■■ Pray tell me whether Gn. ; new te fill (p,r race with pride 1 9 drawn this crowd together f H vi d me slowly ii]> and down As though I'd put a ■twTl answered, with a >ulky irown. i re gettin' at me, mister ! '■ Ab;s ! " I sighed, " must I infer That tidings black and fearful Are causing this tremendous stir Although the crowd seems cheerful ? " He ^ave a most uncalled-for wink, Which didn't help to calm me. And muttered rudelv, "Strike me pink, The bloomin' blighter's barmy ! " What crisis, then," I cried with heat, Enraged at his indictment, '■ Brings thronging thousands to the street In such intense excitement ? " " ■ Crisis ' yer grandmotho-r ! " said he, •• What bee's got in yer bonnet i A film is tcot ice've come to sef, i'.'iu Charlie Chaplin on if .' " — The Shoicman in " Passing S/ioir." i Where Moving Pictures Originated. MANY of us have wondered who invented the moving picture. Now] we know. H. Van Loan in his " Konfessions of a Tillum Fiend," a humorous series in the American Muring Picture Weekly says:—" Thomas Edison is supposed to have lieenthe genius who introduced them to us, but. without desiring to subtract any of the credit which is rightly due to him, I wish to state that after two trips around Cape Home on a brigantine and three nights on a bench ou the Victoria Embankment T have gleaned some very valuable information which shows that a youth by the name of Naybob Kadanins. of No. 2,023, lid en Avenue. Sodom, was the ereati :' Of the idea. ippears he was 'snooping' around the lake of Galilee one day when he discovei I, from the top of a mango trees a beautiful maiden who was shampooing her hi ir in the war is of the lake. He didn't see the maiden ; ail that lie was her divine form reflected in the waters. He remained until after she had taken her morning 1 ath and then h dour. ;; <.l lMM-hltek tO SodiUU. where he told his parents he had discover da form i amiu ove J ■ and at 1 formed com] vvhi wen I the Lake > I Galih ■ w bi h certaij form of acting and dancing for tin crowd which assembled on the brow 0 the hills, out of sight of the actors This acting was reflected in the waterof the lake and mad.1 one vi the great ; are -hows imaginable,"