Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER ISO Week ending Nov. z-j, 1915 Picture News and motes MA K E a note of the date December tih v, hen t he Double Christmas Number of Pictures (price 2d.) will hi; in the bands ol (we hope) all our readers. Mi ire particulars latei . * * • • Cabiria has broken all records, we are told. 1 1 is strong enough to break anything ! » * « Otis Harlan, the Selig star, weighs over three hundred pounds, and yet on the screen he is a mere shadow. * * TJie Silence of Dean Maitlantl, the "Ideal'' picture, is booming. Though the Dean be silent, the box-office talks. « # e Constance Collier is the latest stage star to go into pictures— for the Morosco, in which company Cyril Maude and Maud Allan have also played. V.: VS *r •& Pickle-eaters, says an authority, are invariably sweet-tempered and affectionate men. Note for producers: Don't let your "villains" eat pickles. The Indies are not mentioned. # =£ # * Mabel Forrest, the wife of Bryant Washburn, recently presented her husband with a bonny bouncing boy. This answers the oft-repeated question, " Is Bryant married? " # * * # A cinema poster at Westcliff-on-Sea : " Satan, for one day only; by special request." It reminds us of Irving, who when Toole burlesqued bis Mephistopheles said "So you think that funny, do yon?" to which the famous comedian's reply was " Devilish ! :' This is Not) the Life. THE life of a film property-man is not an easy one. For example, some of the properties called for during the filming of a picture-play at the Rselig studios. Chicago, inclnded one dead cat, a dozen white mice, a dozen cannonballs of clay, i me wooden cannon, and some mock shells manufactured of hickory. And the poor man had to get thenr; During the Year, 1914. ACCORDING tothe Editor of Selig's I'.'sli /mi . a28 head of villains were killed ; L-,233 mortgages were foreclosed and three cancelled; l.sss.HiH) automobile chases occurred; 3,009,999,] 11 buckets of water were emptied on silk bats; 222,333.002 new butlers appeared in ' big sets;" and 11 new plots were unearthed. In Memory of Nurse Caw 11. THE Phoenix Film Co. has produced a lil m based on the murder of Nurse Cavell. The scenario was written by Edgar Wallace, the well-known novelist, and the subject will be shown in conjunction with Lord Derby's recruiting campaign. The proceeds from the film will I e devoted to the Cavell Memorial Fund, and all the players are giving their services free. Civilisation's Publlc=house. TI1K great British public-hous to-day is the pict u'e-show v.ith its 1,000,000 patron-, each day. And there's no bar agaiust treating there. It's encouraged, because it means two hour of refreshing recreation after a day of strain. A treat that it a treat. From one of SepvcovtKs yell A Snake in the Scene. DURING the taking of a desert scene in The Great Dicidt . R jmaine Fielding suddenly observed a large rattler coiled up a few feet away from the scene being taken. Mr. Fielding, anxious not to spoil the scene, said nothing toany one. The noise evidently disturbed " Mr. Rattler.1' who started to uncoil, but Mr. Fielding was equal to the occasion. He shouted "stop" to the camera-man. whipped out his automatic :i8, and with a well-directed shot blew the big rattler's head off. Woman — Everywhere ! THEY talk about a woman's sphere As though it had a limit : There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given. There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whispered yes or no. There's not a life, or death, or birth That has a feather's weighs of worth Without a woman in it '. And the poet should have added •■ Nor a film studio/1 THE PLAYER'S HOLIDAY.-No. 5. Alary Pickfbrd dons Billie Ritchie's togs. Plum Puddings tn Pictures. THOUSANDS of Christmas pud for our Tommies on \ ire are being made at Whit • famous house in Bayswater for the 1) \ilg Xeios pudding fund, and recently moving photographs were taken of the making, boiling, and packing of the first eighty-three of the,e paddings. This topical film will 1 shi m n at a great number of cinemas throughout the kingdom. The \Var=time Conjuror. IN the days before the war a friend of ours was something of an expert in the amateur conjuring line: but, one of the first to answer the call, he fated to find that the legerdemain which enabled him to do all sorts of things with e>_'gs was of little avail against the enemy's shells. And now. having done his bit gallantly, he is as courageously prepared to face the future minus an arm. "My occupation's gone in one re? fipect," he told us, smiling rather ruefully. "I shall have to say good-live to the game of hanky-panky. I've nothing up my sleeve ! '' But after all, in the hanky-panky of life, a stout heart under one's vest i> something to conjure with. Generous Gifts :o xh.. ^und. THE trade's effort to rais the purchase of a complete ambulance convoy, with ac the nation, is being magnificently responded to. Already eleven gifts 1 t Lei "i have come in or are promised. Edisons, Lubin. Vitagraph, and Famous Players pay for a car each. Gaun. of Paris and London, have contributed £500, and so has \V. F. Jury, who is the Treasurer of the Fund. Dr. Jupp, who is the President, has given a similar donation, and the Provincial Cinematograph Theatres have given £500 and other offerings. Cecil Hepworth and his staff are raising E500,and the London Film is making a similar effort. Familiar Film Captions. AN American contributor to the Script has sued up the following sub-titles. Th. -y so often appear on the screen that all will recognise tie. :-. That Night: As the Days Went By; Moruiug; That Afternoon; Later; The Next Day; She Never Knew. T! Arrives; 'The Bud 0! the Trail ; lb Bel in Her ; The Weddin* Day ; Toe Late : he Reception; Still No Message ; Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!! The Signal; Faith ; A Stranger; The Christening ; Aud Some >iu-t Suffer: A Little Child Shall Lead Tli The Call to Arm-; Conscription; C Martial ; In Better Siirronnduigs : S e Trusted Him ; A Child .it the Sea . , motion; The Long Dull Days. Com .eii.e; She Becomes a Nnrse; Her (>wu Child; No Place to Turn ; The Lure of the City; Her Friend Proves False; The Better \\a'\ ; A Wild Flower; Leave Me; He S \11ew ; Twilight ; They an Watched ; A Detective is Summoned ; Eluding Capt \ Mother's love; Back Home; A Friend Indeed; She .Meet .Mr. Dross; i Dream-; A Benefactor; Love Finds a Wav ; I'll" Return; Circumstantial Evidence; A Reporter Hets the Story; Bankruptcy; Disgraced; The Clouds Pass Awaj . Happy at Last ; Love Rules the World. But why. oh, why has he Overl I bewbiskered friends, "One H Later,'' " Saved ! " and "Her Blessing"?