Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

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PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOEK V62 Weee ENTUKG Nov. 20, 1915 ARE YOU TRYING FOR ONE OFTHESE? PRIZE 2-PRIZE ilO £5 10L 10 PRIZES ofi CREENED STAR OVER 200 PRIZES TO BE WON ! Wo give In-low the ninth set of pictures in our Players' Pnzzles for Pieturegoors Competition :' Screened Stars.'' The ( Competition is quite simple and quite free. Below yon will find six pictui-cs representing the surnames (only) of well-known Picture Actresses and Actors, What you have to do is to write, in the spaces provided, the surname you think each picture represents. Thus— take picture No. 1 in the tirst set— a pick and a ford. This represented the surname of the Famous Player .Mary Pickford. Fill in the solnrionsof the other pictures in a similar way. Do not send now— keep each set till the final set has appeared. A £10 note will be awarded to the sender of the most correct solutions. .£5 to the next, 1 10s each to the next ten. and 203 Consolation Frizes to the senders ot the next bcsl solutions in order of merit. You can send in as many sets as yon like. Fill in the ninth set now — and bear in mind, oven if you cannot get all the answers right, you may yet win the <£10— 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 containing previous Sets may be had from our Publishers. ENTRY NvMI, FORM. Addrsss, 9th Set. OUR LETTER-BAG Selected from hundreds every week As It Should Be. I have seen more British films this hist tour weeks than 1 had previouslv seen for tour month-. Is ;t duo to the tax." or 1 coincidence . But 1 do appreciate them." B. B !l glu A Loss to Pictures. ■ As a constant picture-goer and I notice the tremendous popularity the comedy pictures enjoy -yet then-are many in which 1I1 -chie! character is more painful than fanny.. The majority of comedy iilni-pr.xlucea must be slow. 1 myself saw a man playing in a drama last week at the theatre. and why some picture-making firm has not si him up long ago i a mystery. His facia expressions would take pages' t.. describe He i remarkably agile, and his kno. business is of an original kind. He pi shrieks of laughter with hardly a word spoken. 1 do not know his name, but he is rather slim, with thick, flying, black hair, and a pair of most expressive eyes, and a ripping smile. Ifanyof'the represc-utal American or French firms saw him I think they would hesitate to engage him.' L. M. M. Lower WalmcrJwS Cinema's Roll of Honour. "1 admire the patriotic point of \ i. \v of • T. S. (Highgate)' >•« British films: but when your readers talk about young fellow in tltc trade joining the Colours, it show how little they know of the Cinema trade Hull of Honour. •• If they had all read the trade journal irom the outbreak of the war. • T. S.' would have found the industry ha given men from branch, including actor-, connected with it. Almo-t every week the trade papers announce that some one connected with the trade has fallen in Flanders or el-, where. Has mj fellow-reader heard that i h t re i*%<\ Cinema V.C. "No! T. S. (Highgate must not nw away with the idea because the fellow on the screen looks eligible he i so. To t utlthe young men out of the scene is absurd. WIS wants to mi' pictures wherein the characters are all old men and women ■ What kind of iilms would "T. S.' have us see i time ■ • Personally I consider that the , trade has done very well in sending n en to the Colours, judging from reports in th journal-. B. M. V. , WalwortlijB Credit Where Credit is Due. •• I take your pleasant little paper wi kly, and was interested in the Competition aliout the famous actors, but 1 was surprised to setthat Courtenay Foote is classed among the non-British player-. This i suivly a mistake, as I am sure Mr. I'oote was barn in England, and. 1 think, in Harrogate (in)" own native place1, where his people now live. When a film featuring Mr. foote was shown not long ago at our local picture-house, he was announced on the programme a formerly of Harrogate.' and 1 lielieve he ailed on the English stage for>ome veils 1 1 went to America. Of course. 1 maj have read your Competition notice incoi lectly. but 1 hope you will not object to my writing on the matter. Mr. Foote is such tinguished, handsome, and talented actor that I feel proud he is a native of this town. I do not wish America to claim him as a countryman." Minn (HarrogateK. .-.-■' iji'itr ii>iht. Mr. ■ flJH 1, but. an hi ' sfilm \eorkhm it.ru c_un/j£f\ to America, his name crept into the I List by mistah . Ed.]