Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND TiiE PICTUREGOER O ARE YOU STAR HUNTING? I" PRIZE W 2PRIZE i; £10 £5 W GREENED STAR OVER 200 PRIZES TO BE "WON ! We give bolow the fourth set of pictures in our Players' Puzzles for Pictni Competition " Screened Stars." The Competition is quitesimple and quite free. Below you will find six pictures representing the surnames (only) of well-known Picture Actresses and Actors. What you hare to do is fo write in the spaces provided, the surname you think each picture represents. Thus fake picture No. 1 in the firsl set— a pick and a ford. This represented the surname of the Famous Player MaryPickford. Fill in the solntionsof Hie other pictures in a similar way. Do not send now keep each set till the final set lias appeared1. A £10 note will be awarded to the sender of themosl correct solutions. £5 to tlio next, and 10? each to the next ten, and 20 J Consolation Prizes to the senders ol the next best solutions in order of merit. You can send in us many sets as you like. Fill in the fourth set now -and bear in mind, oven if you cannot get all the answers right, you lu.iv yel win the £10 -and there are^OO Consolation Gifts. Only well-known Britisli and foreign players' names are illustrated. Their names are always appearing in our pages ^ptfh^^^T^^ ENTRY NAM1 FORM. A,,K1 4th Ser. HULLO! Are you there? This Gerard 2095, Oh, have moved from Adam Si offices are now at 85. Long Acre, W.C And very nice, too! " Tims lately have 1 • -a many times on the 'phone. J hope our thousands of ■ idente will note the new address and nem phone number, and not continue to send to ori"ing up the old. Tin. new building is the : ly opened by Odhams, Limited, whose ever-ii -in"ss has • ited an • sion to their already huge premises. Our own Editorial and •ment De partments are 1 ■ ' • t } i ■■:> one floor-, but onr Publishing Offices are still a* Acre a few doors away from us. Some People Swallow Anything! In a recent issue I published a li tter received from a reader containing one of those absurd and preposterons rumours which How into this office almost daily. It made me laugh, and in merry moodl gave it that famous comic-3ong title Archibald, Certainty ^ for heading, expecting my readers to enjoy the joke as 1 did. Now for the seqneL Two readers have actually written t'> ask if the story was true! Some people will swallow anything. The story was .,; course pure invention, and if I had thought for one moment that any oue was going to believe it I would not have published the letters J. H. Martin's Latest Success. Many good things haye come from the house of Martin of Merton, and assuredly one of them is 7" ■■' ■ H story with a gi ip. which was screened the other day at Davison's, the British agent. It tells of a young man falsely accused on the strongest circumstantial evidence of the murder of his father and shows the young man's escape from a envict prison in company with the actual murderer. A strong low interest makes the drama even more entertaining. Some of the very beautiful, l)eing taken i;i Derbyshire during thai 1);; iday which 1 told you the Martin Companj enjoying dircing the summer. Misleading the Public. Practically serves a devouring public with matter ni erning film players and pro. he published are absurdly ina i and result in readers asking them. By t his nioi letter eiuioses a newspapervuttiug whii h that in 1 3.0 I » performers employed. From which we may assume. if we please, that if every performer rode a horse he had six to choose IV im. A generous margin for losses in l perhaps. Ls a matter of fact, the correct figures are just 1 1 1 :