Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

98 PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER WHO ARE THESE PLAYERS P Week e.vd;vc Oct. 30, 19 15 "PRIZE 2-PRIZE £10 £5 m 10 PRIZES ofi CREENED STAR OVER 200 PRIZES TO BE WON! We give below the sixth set fit' pictures in our Players' Puzzles for Picturegoers < ompctition -c: Screened Stars.'.' The Competition is quite simple— and quite free. Below you will find six pictures representing the surnames (only) of well-known Picture Actresses .nil Actors. Wliat you have to do is to write, in the spaces provided, the surname you think each picture represents. Thus tske picture No. 1 in the first set —a pick and a ford. This represented tho surname of the Famous Player -Mary Pickford. Fill in the solutions of the other pictures in a similar way. Do not send now -keep each set till the final set has appeared. A £10 note will he awarded to the sender of the most correct solutions. £5 to the next, and lOs each to the next ten, and 200 Consolation Frizes to the senders ol the next best solutions in order of merit. You can send in as many sets as you like. Fill in the sixth set now — and bear in mind, even if you cannot get all the answers right,yon may yet win tlw <£\Q — and there are 200 Consolation Gifts. Only ■well-known British and Foreign players' names are illustrated. Their names are always appearing in our pages. Back numbers conta ning previous Sets may be hid from oar Publishers. /^X * • ■'■ As ENTRY NAM1 FORM. A.DD1 6th Set. OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. R.sadei' Acts ■' Down Under." •" I thought you might be interested to know that a little girl friend of mile', who used to read your paper a L'rcit deal when she was in England, is now play ing~f or films in New Zealand. She writes and tells me that she loves playing for pictures, ami it is not a hit like work. Violet G. iHendon). The Temple Love-scsne. " In the isMie for September -1th last, under the heading of ' Our Letter-bag. appeared a letter from A. W.S. iClapham who saws little love-scene acted in front of the fountain in tht Temple. B.C.. and though! he recognised the lady as being Chrissie White. He was inquiring after the title of the film, so that he could be able to see it sen ened. Perhaps the following will interest my fellowreader .-— • Hepworth have just n-prodnceU Sir A. \V. Pineio s Sirett [.aveivler. and some parts of the story take place in tin Temple. The cast includes Chrissie White, as " Sweet Lavender." Alma Taylor as " Ruth,' and Henry Ainleyas " Dick Phcnyll." The film has been acquired by the London Independent Film Company, of 4. Deuman Street. AY., who would, no doubt, let him know if tho film is to be shown in the S.W. district. B. M. V. (Walworth). We Are So Sorry for Him. " What would yon say to a man who denounces pictures and picture-palaces as altogether demoralising -physically and mentally? The man 1 know says they injure the eves, and are bad in that they give the children ' ideas.' He regards me with pitying contempt because I love pictures an I picture-players, and declares he wouldn't bo found dead in a cinema. I have tried to make him come, have asked him how he dares condemn without seeing them, hut he persists in his obstinate opinions. Now 1 like this person, and I am sorry that he should lose one of the greatest pleasures yet devised by man. He cannot discern the difference between cheap melodrama ami good, sound sentiment. All pictures are condemned by him, he warns everybody to avoid them, and, since he is considered an authority, his word have effect. What can I sayto convince him of the good effect pictures have had in impiovinglhe taste of all ' goers' so that they know a good thing when they see it. 1 hate people to state opinions 011 thimrs before sampling them. d< 11 t yon i W. B. W. (Watford). Can British Actresses be Natural? ' I was glad to seein this week's ' Pictures' that people are asking for more English films. Iquite ague with the letter written by lM, O. (Birmingham).' 1 have been watching^ class of English cinema students, and seen some splendid acting once they had overcome the English reserve and nervousness. 1 am a cinema-artist myself, and although not in any way attractive in face, hut good general appearance, very active, full of wit, and strong in acting, still 1 do hot expect 10 rise very high in the cinema world unless more interest is taken in English girls. 1 feel sure 1 could do far better than half I see in some tilnis. where the real, natural side of acting is not seen at all. They are either too far-fetched, perfect rubbish, or the artistes are not serious enough in their work, and an unnatural. I noticed in some films last week where the girls who were playing serious parts, and where there was a fine chain e for them to show the gilt of changing expressions, laughing to themselves, yet trying to keep a straight race. Of course such a film is not worth seeing. 1 have heard do ens of such remarks passed. 1 think it is time the English awoke to the tact that they can lie ami will t r\ to be equal to our foreign friends.' I> M London).