Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGCER 122 : f.n:>i::c Nov. 6. 1915 Turner Films Pictures made for YGU." "MY OLD DUTCH "— booked by over 600 Theatres in less than two months— is a TURNER FILM. Other TURNER FILMS are: Released during past 12 months . Through the Valley of Shadows. For Her People. . The Shepherd Lassie of Argyle. Shop Girls. As Ye Repent. Co mi Jig: Lost and Won. Far from the Madding Crowd., Caste. A Welsh Singer. The Great Adventure. And others to be announced later. These have come or are coming to your lavourile Theatre. Ask the Manager " When? THE YOUNG PICTUREGOER ,ea.r Girls and Boys— .Animals have been and always will be popular film actors. The elephant here shown is one of the clever troupe of Bostock animals (and many of you must have seen them during their visits to England) which arc now being employed in America in a new brand of "Centaur" films. The Bostock animals include some of the cleverest foullegged IrieU performers in the world, and their .screened actions are sure to amuse and interest you when they arrive in this country. One good thing about such pictures is that you run no personal risk of injury. A little girl friend of mine once stood admiring a fine elephant at the Zoo. Suddenly the animal curled his trunk around her right arm and lifted her high up in the air. Of course the child hollored, and so did the keeper. "Don't struggle," he cried, "or he will break your arm," and after moments of tense excitement the little girl was rescued. Now, no matter how affectionate an elephant might be, he cannot embrace yon with "his trunk if he happens to be only a shadow. I have just heard that a few weeks ago four lion cubs made their first appearance on earth at the Bostock Zoo, and that children in Los Angeles have been asked to compete in finding names for them. And who knows? perhaps these babies will grow up to be filmplayers also. As I have started the subject of animals I may as well keep it up. Attached to the Lubin Studio in Philadelphia is Mike, a monkey. He receives three dollars a day for his services, and enough peanuts and candy to kill the average child. Everybody likes Mike, except the office cat. because she, poor thine-. Js disliked by Mike. Attached also to the studio i3 a dachshund pap you know the sort, very long body and very short legs. The monkey and the dog are chums, and the latter did not object when Mike took him up in his arms the other day, carried him over to the eat. and hurled him on top of the cat's back. During the awful fight which followed Mike assisted his chum by pulling the cat's tail. When peace was declared Mike wasperched on Marie Dressler's shoulder, telling her all about it in monkey language; the cat was hidden in the producer's new red motor-car ; and the dog was chasing in joy-wheel fashion his own tail. Perhaps the only real Irish doggy actor in Ireland to-day is" Brandy." the full-blooded terrier, that belongs to Patrick O'Sullivau. an innkeeper at Beaufort. Up till the summer of last year Sidney Oleott has gone there with his company to make pictures, and always on Sidney's landing in Beaufort " Brandy " has been his slave, and ready to do anything he wished. The result is that this little terrier figures quite prominently in many scenes in these Irish pictures, which are being released by the Lubin Company. The dog knew when to come on and when to go off,aud acted with all the intelligence of a grown-up child, and every time Mr. Oleott took his departure "Brandy'' just howled his tiny heart out. Every month I receive one or two letters from " nephews " or "nieces " ii: which I am warned that. having reached the age of fifteen, he or she i> no longei eligible tor my competitions. Alaslil is too true. and. in addition, a constant reminder of how time flies. But it does not follow— does it?— that because mj reader is no longer a child he or she will cease to read Pictukes. In fact, the a