Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND TliE PICTUREGOER 370 : EXDIXG Jan. 15. jt,i6 Turner Films " Picture s made for YOU." A NOTABLE COMING TURNER FILM. A WELSH SINGER. The Author ... ... ... . Allen Raine. Tlic Producer ... ... Hear} Edwards. The Players : — Florence* Turner, Henry Edwards, Campbell Gullan, Malcolm Cherry, Una Venning, Aury Lorraine, and others. The Story —A boy and girl, lovers in the Welsh Hills, are parted by the call of Art. Years later, both having achieved fame— the girl as a singer, the boy as a Sculptor — they meet. The man falls in love afresh with his old sweetheart, whom he does not recognise. The woman reminds him of his pledge to the girl of yecfrs before. He goes to . seek her, to fulfil his promise. And he finds tha': the path of honour leads after all to happiness. S THE YOUNG 4 PICTUREGOER GIRLS AND BOYS, ice writing you last, Christmas has come and gone, and my pretty heading this week illustrates how some, and I hope very many, of you have been spending your holidays. For myself I had a very pleasant time, as. although I have many friends and relations at the Front, none pf them, so far as I know, have been killed. T tad pecasion to travel across London off Boxing Bay afternoon,and was not a little astonished, seeing what a -rough rind windy day it was„tO find long queues outside rnahy picturebooses, [learnt, too, that all the picture theatres did fullhouse business at night, which only shoves that, no matter what holiday il is, the people, both-old and young. wV/have their picture feast. At a picture-hous,e near ' here I live they give a performance every Saturday afternoon for children and il does one's heart good to hear the thunders of applause and roars of laughter, which can be heard half-way down the road. On one occasion, although I did not disguise myself outwardly,] fancied myself a child again and went inamongst fcbem. And then 1 understood their great delight. With them I laughed al the comical antics of thej:omedians and applauded the braverj of the heroes. 1 could not help wyselt, !i was impossible to be one of a packed audience of children without doing as they did. Their spontaneous enthusiasm carried me away. and for that afternoon at least 1 became a little boy again. Truly the pictures are a marvellous institution -the mightiest entertainer forall sorts of men. women, and children that the world has ever known. You boys and girls are lucky to be born in times of pictures. J often wonder how I managed without them in the days of m\ youth. The Painting Competition has been another monster successs. For a whole week paintings poured in as plentiful as the rain and 1 have had the usual ti-rlit task in judging them. But 1 am quite used to the work now. and have long ago come to the conclusion that painting is one favourite pastimes. The four painting-books have gone to the following for best paintings, aire being considered in examining all the pictures: Winnie Weatherlev (aged 10), 38, Dorking (load, Deptford. S.E. ; Reggie Ooukon (aged 13), 46, Dorking Road. Tnnbridge Wells; Horace Venner (aged i_-i. l'T.M a island Road, Walworth, S.E.: Doris B. Smith (aged Mi. 375, Staple!.. n Road, Bristol. A\vw;n OF Mkkit (you win this six tim.^s for a special prize): L. [son (Acton Vale), Alan Cansdale (Colchester), Frank Ilului (Cardiff), Thomas simister (Manchester), C. Bernard (Edinburgh), W. Ellison (Halifax), Nan Brooks (Edinburgh), Elsie Booth (Morecambe), Dorothy Hall