Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 2t« Picture News and Notes YOU must u< >\ m I Ihrisl mas Nnmber. IT yon have ;t not it to-day. Twopence, and worth it! • * • • X' -I week's Pictures, the one .dated December 25th, will be quite Cb'ristmassj in character, although of the usual size and price. Please note. • # # • In spite of the fact that she has had offers from other companies, there is no truth in the rumour that Blanche Sweet is leaving Lasky. She isn't. # # * # ■ An actual conversation : " There's a lot of money in pictures," said a promoter, warmly. " Yes," said his listener, sadly, •" there's a lot— of mine." # _ # * # But, given a good plot, a good producer, and the right players, the speculator should he able to make the same reply, wearing a smile. « # * * An American picture-house recently offered a free ticket to every applicant who had never seen a motion-picture. Two hundred tickets were distributed. Dr. Macnamara thinks that "even the smallest plots sliould be cultivated." But we respectfully take exception to the cultivation of even the smallest of silly him plots. * # # # A carpenter has presented a cinema manager in Sussex with the following bill : "To cutting and banging two doors myself and one assistant, seven and sixpence." Were they cine-martyrs ? # * ' # # Prison "Pictures." The Minnesota State Prison, said to be tin' largest and iinest prison of its kind in the world, is verily an up-todate institution. Every week they show pictures to the "inhabitants." If it happened in oar prisons "six months" would lose some of its hardness. Pretty Qirl as "Ugly Duckling." AT the Balboa studio a picture entitled The I '(/lust Girl in the World is being made, and in this Jackie Saunders will he featured in the name part. We all know -that it will be necessary for Miss Saunders to disguise herself fortius part, but in the end her make-up may be removed as the duckling becomes the most beautiful bird. Beverly Bayne, Newspaperwonfan. BEVERLY BAYSTE, the Metro star, is one of the few women in New York City who lias a police card. usually given only to newspaper reporters, which entitles her to pas9 through police lines at fires, accidents, or similar happenings. It has just been given to her by the Commissioner of •oliee, for Miss Bayne has qualified as a newspaper writer, in aduit i m to her work in motion-pictures Hundreds, of newspapers throughout the eonntrj use her special article on women's fashions A Recipe for Reels. THESeli^ Panic-pot i • comn ingredients, mixed thoroughlj The papers. One mortgage on the old farm. One ehe-ild. One railroad track. One old mill. One villain from New York. One heroine. One' adventuress. One grey-haired father. One grey-haired mother. One honest young harvest hand. Two revolvers. One drummer with all the realistic eft The Amazing Camera. Blowing dust off the face of a 1.000year old mummy ! What next ! you gaspr But it actually happened for a coming Trans-Atlantic interest film which was made near the great Pyramid, where excavations are going on to "unearth" a buried city. For the first time in the history of the world the actual digging and discovery of a mummy is shown in a moving-picture, and you will see natives calmly blowing away the dust in order not to destroy the crumbling bones. THE PLAYFR'S HOLIDAY. No. 7. Henry Aiulej as Fo d Sterling. Week ENDi: Dtc vJur Cover Portrait. HELEN HOLMES, whose breathtaking adventures have aire made her world fame accomplished further d The '/• • ,i TransAt lantic drama coming in January. In this film her baby -tarta railway engine, and in order to rescue the child. Helen 111. a flying leap from a motor-car on moving truck, and whilst the trail rushing along -he climbs up and over a I trucks until she reaches the entrine and stops it. Truly wonderful '. Our Film Stoiies. IX reply to many readers, full stori-s of the following films have appeared in the following issues during < I ber and November:-— October 2nd 7 lintli of a Xation; A Woman with a Past. October 9th Did Xo Greatei' Lore. October 16th Rags. < >ctober 23rd After th. Storm .• T ,nr\r. October 30th— Lost and Won : Iliyh Treason. November 6th 77*. v Orchard. November 13th— Tht Outra Tl„ Struggle Upward. November 20thThe Mystery of a Hansom ('ah; J',,, Penman. November 27th— St/u ofG nut Cities ; The Face in the Mirror. British Comed.'a s the Best. WHENEVER America needs really first-. la- comedian for the screen she has to come to "The Old Country." Charlie Chaplin, Billy Ritchie. Billy B 3yd Chap lin are all British, and. moreover, are chiefly supported by Britishers. Indeed all the male members of Chaplin's Company— viz., Billy Armstrong, Leo White. Laurence Bowes. Harold Holland. George Cleethorpe. and Fred Goodwins are British to the backbone Rival "Carm ns." KEEN rivalry was creat ■& recently in an Indiana city where both the Fox and the Lasky productioi 3 Carmen were being shown the same week. War was waged between the rival theatres. Every available hoarding blazed with posters of the Fox So the Lasky house put a car on the ,-treets bearing a band and banners. Then the Fox house retaliated with a larger car with a, eign reading, "The William Fox Cm beats the band." This led the Lasky car to change its sign to " We lead, others follow/and "We can afford a band:" and tie Fox car replied with." Ours don't need a band:" Both houses were packed. The young son of William Lampe. the Balboa player, has the earmarks of a prospective financier. A roc nt visitor at the Lampe borne gave the lad a shilling. " I'd rather have a penny," said the foury ar eld. handing back the silver piece. •■ Win queried the amazed benefi 1 "Because grandma cant pat that in the gas meter," replied the youth. The COMMUTERS IS KUMMIN ~ hurrah! hurrah!! -sj