Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

Wl IK KND^U '3. ^J'5 79 PICTURES AND THE P1CTURRGOER NOK.M \\ now Mil). w|10. ui,,,, „„( playing for 1 > 1 1 1 1 . lias a laptoil mam lil.u stories for Pic n res. 10 producer who would he host to do justice to such world-famed «ses. When the time came lie the He). worth Company, for whom M. Hepworth,"thegrcatall-British er." is head of the producing Work was immediately begun. and bpth of the pictures are now com] although not yet shown to the public. comes the exciting part. Sir Arthur Pinero was. of course, a bit anxious about the fate of his , lays, even h he knew that }l r. Hcpworth Ibnsclf was handling the production. I 11 the humblest reader must it is difficult to put a stage play on to the screen and still retain the spirit • story. 'I'll • day came for Sir Arthur to see S,,-,,/ /.,,,-,,, I, ,-. Every nee rued was a bit nervous. What • I his verdict be ? His first statement was almost an ■;. He had really misjudged the 1 of the cinema producer. I) and had not realised what an art was involved. In the c:i> lie had been coin incod i wonderful medium of expr. ture-play could be. The work of one of Cecil M. Hei, worth himAlma Taylor, of Chii-ie White, ■••■art Home, of Lionelle Howard, t Hopson. and of Henry Ainley (the .,x Hepworth stars who took part 1 lily " wonderful." And that, of was a great thing for the HepCompany to have achieved. But possibly Sir Arthur thought that N mhr was an exception. At my rate, he was anxious about Jri,-. It lieult story in many wavs. merely 'it isso areata subject." let when bur had watched the whole story unfolded on the screen he was teed far beyond what he had even eed was possible. Tlie most difficult ot all his plays had been rewritten foi 1 he oreen, played I ! .,11 in sucha ua> that the itorj h el uehioved a new lif... Even to him. who hud w ritteu it and seen it interpreted many times in the Btttgo rehearil>, it I, id | 1 me. mil, u an I a nei\ -I, .-net h It was then thai Sir \> thur Piiwro wrote tlie wonderful lull trof prui ■■• w it It \> hi. di Alma TaCoris both delujllto I embarrass d. One of Our Story writers. NORM \\ now \i;d is kuown to main of yon as b • t i i n stage and a film actor. His name, of course, is familiar to our readei as the « rites of several -tone adapted Prom tilms, which have appeared in these pages, and therefor.' his portrait reproduced hi i ■ \\ ill be doublj interesl Jusi lately Mr. Howard has been pi tying heavy lead for the Arrow Film Company in a new all-British sporting drama. He deserted medicine, he I us, som irs ago, for the stage, and drifted into film-land after a varied theatrical experience. Some of the filmdramas in which he has played are // < 'on,, I ,-n's Honour, Fit mis of II, II . Guar (imj Britain's Secret, I .\,ir, I Wooing. HisFather's Sin, an I Vinu and the Hour. We hop,, shortly to publish another story from his pen, "California and You! " FOR two years Ruth Roland, the Balboa favourite, has been reci ing htters from the scion of a prominent English family. Even the war lias not interrupted tl rrespondence, although thewrher iss >rving bis.country as a Lieutenant in " The King's. (Liverpool) " Regiment. "1 wish it was all over," he writes, referring to the dreadful conflict, from the Front. "However, we haven't nearly finished yet by a long way. The end of this war seems like California to me a darned long way off. But I'm jolly well going there some day. ''Really. Rath. I don't suppose you know how ripping you are. • Lord. I wish 1 C mid" hear yon sing, and speak to you. Life h are issickeningly hard work. Some other, I saw that yon sang n s< u at a charity recently entitled :Ca.'.i irnia and Von." I'm jolly well going to get it. The title seems just about to express my thoughts. " On reading over what I've written, it sonnets pretty average bosh; but anyway it's genuiiie. It's awfully weary and nagging hi re. Letters are the only soldrink, and that's no use to any decent man. Your lettersare worth a dozen others. They simply can't be compared toothers. 1 ve kepi all you ever sent me. Anyhow, ydu know what 1 think of you, i though I can't express it.'" Then, he continues trying to'express it;" but Miss Roland was too considerate to reveal any more. That her admirer comes "from a family of standing is evidenced by the fact that his pater invested half a million pounds in the English War Loan. T " Help ! \\ ei a Starving; and Thirsty ! " 'IMS stui'lliii ( 'h.n lie < 'I iplin. It happeix d purnesl during t he prouuctii hi* latest com m on it • waj to thi count i j | in v\ hich, a-> we ■ I Cliai ind in . company wi re strande I about Ave miles from -h ire in the ichooner Vaquero, t ■ I "i Boine 20 • tons, \\ nl, no t 1 ,• n ater on bo ml. To |> 'gin n il h, t be motor launch, t h ■ only available craft in the hill bom take them a-l,< re, bi oke dow u, and t Iih onl\ meaus of connect ion bel ween t he vessel and the shore was bj an old rowTwo of i he product v e *ayed t ho passage in this frail craft, but the heavy eurf capsized t heir I He inn hile t he companj on ] iii a most dejected state. < Ihnrlie and his vivacious leading lady, Edna Purviance, did their best to I p up the its of the marooned i arty, but lack Of fo id and water . , ious matter i to Charlie (j| nm-t I, ■ remembered lie i an Euglisbm and n hen theVenice 5tal i m ignalled a message asking how they were faring, he in-i on signalling back the dramatic wot " Help : we're stari ing and thirsty ! '' During thenighi the boat rocked so that t be « hole crowd were It « as a miserable company of ci imedy players that were taken off the ship the next morning by the repaired launch. The gaiety had fled from all. Charlie tried to smile, but his moustache had 1 n washed away by the gale, and the attempt was a ghastly failure. The schooner was later used in the taking of the harbour scenes of the new comedy, and finally provided a mi sensational spectacle u hen it was blown up for the purpi sea of the play. THE PLAYER'S HOLIDAi'.-No. Maurice Costello as Charlie Chaplin. I.