Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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FIGTURES AND THE PICTURZGOER 1C6 Picture Mews and Notes IN" A Stranger in X< w York twelve cats were used. Screened with mewsick, a howling success is predicted, • «* # One hundred thousand feet of film is scut free every week for troops at the Front 1))' the Gaumont Film Hire Service. * # # Grace Canard, who, as the result of n slight accident, has been ill. is now back at the studios again, and working. # it * * Mabel Normand is making rapid strides towards recovery. .She wants to have her revenge on the person who threw that boot for luck. *C « # * Cissy Fitzgerald, the well-known Vitagraph star, is now playing for the Mutual Company, and will shortly appear in A Corner in Cuts. Miss Fitzgerald appeared at the Daly's Theatre, London, in The Gaiety Girl. & & * * A unique feature of the new Keystone studio will be a doorless cafe. The eating-place will be left open always, so that developers from the allnight dark-room may get a good meal between film-changing times. How nice! # * * * Striking testimony to the art of D. W. Griffith, the producer of The Birth of a Nation, is given at every performance, when soldiers fresh from the plains of France and Flanders 'are carried away with the realism of the battle scenes at the Scala. Mr. Griffith had long consultations with Army officers when planning these scenes. The Over= Zealous Producer. EVEN producers are human beings. This one happened to be directing the production of a Lubin one-act photoplay, The Son, featuring Octavia Handworth, Jack Standing, and Eleanor Blanchard. He was working on a scene of intensely emotional strength. Even the stage hands stood spellbound. The wronged wife appealed to the other woman for her husband. Tragedy was in the ail-, and the producer, forgetting all about his work and surroundings, and thinking only of the scene, walked straight into the camera, necessitating the taking of an extra 200ft. of film. "Cinema Day,"' November 9th. SINCE the war started we have had many "Flag Days." and although November 9th may not be one of these, it is. nevertheless, to be known as '" Cinema Day." On that day. which incidentally was (he birthday of KingEdward, a portion of the receipts of many (we hope all) cinema theatres will go to swell the good fund which the •'Trade" has started to provide a convoy of fifty motor ambulances with appurtenances for use at the Front. It will cos! ESO.OOOto do this, but as the Red Cross organisations are badly in need of help, the cinematograph trade are determined to find the money, JTou can help by making a point of visiting your -favourite cinema on that day, and forming one of the audience which we trust will fill the house at every performance. Now don't forget the date. Admiration from Arabia. CHARES CLARI is in receipt of a jar of tobacco and an Oriental pipe sent him from an Arabian who admired his work in Tlie Carpet of Bagdad. A sprig of jasmine was in the jar, which gave it extra value of a sentimental nature, fcr the Arabians and Persians are very fond of the jasmine — their favourite flower. Clary has had the blossoms put in a frame, and is smoking what is left in the jar after his friends have been at it. A Popular Resort. THE popularity of the Selig Jungle Zoo on the Pacific Coast is growing some. Following a gigantic celebration of Labour Dayat this Zoo. the Italian Red Cross picnic was held there on September 1st by the Italian colony of California, The Beginning of the World, a pageant, was staged there some five >*5< THE PLAYERS HOLIDAY —No. 3. Charlie plays in a Wild West Film, vW.EK ENDING days later, the east calling for tl hundred society peopli 26th a Southern Californian picnic was held at the Selis* Jungle. 1 on October 7th hundreds of Mexicans and Americans gathered at the sa place to celebrate the 100th annivei of Mexico's independence. We lioj go there ourselves — someday. Another Contest Winner. IX a great Cast Contest inaugurated lathe Motion Pictur M New York. Mary Maurice, the popular "\ itagraph player, came out top by a majority of over 300.000 votes.' Miss Maurice is known as the Sweet Mother of the Picture Plays, her benign appearance and gentle manners rendering her an ideal exponent of parts requiring ' sympathy and pathos. Advice Gratis. A WOMAN was summoned the other day in London for non-payment of rates. After pleading that her business (she owns a cinema-theatre) had not been paying, the magistrate replied : " I suppose you have no one to] advise you what films to get. Have you a Charlie Chaplin film? Ton must] have one of those. Then you must have something exciting — Alone i Pirates' Lair, or The It ■ ' . or something of that sort." Now she knows what to show and her pay-b x will doubtless be kept busy. How About Patriotism? IS not the following a great example to British Mothers and their and adore all to the -Slackers' writes John Hastings Batson, the actor well known in British films: — -When the Dutch West India Company attempted to gain a ooting in the Bra/ils they committed all those cruelti have ever marked their progn they have commenced a new colony. Among those who opposed then:. Maiia de Sou/.a. one of the noblest women of the provinces, distinguished herself. Iiij the action before Nazareth her son, Estevam Velho, fell. Already in this war she had lost two other sons and her daughter's husband: when the tidings of tie:' fresh calamity arrived, she called her two remaining sons, one of whom was fourteen years of age. the other a year younger, and said to them. ' Your brother Estevam has been killed by the Dutch to-day: you must now. in your turn, do what is the duty of honourable men in a war wherein they are required 10 serve <b>d and their King and their country. Gird on your swords, and when you remember the sad da\ in which you girt them on. let it not be for sorrow", but for vengeance ; and whether you revenge your brethren or fail b'ke them, you will not degenerate from them nor from your mother." 'Give us our swords' exclaimed the heroic youths, J 'we will revenge the death of our brothers, or perish like them.' Maria de Sou/a then sent her sons to Mathias. the Governor of the fort, requesting that he would rate them as soldiers. The children of such a stock could not degenerate, and they lived to prove themselves the worthy inheritors of its heroism and renown."