Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTVrJiS AND THE PICTUREGOER 374 Week ending j...\. 22 iyi6 Picture news and Notes TEN PO uND S FOR M 0TH1 N G ! # • # * Won U1. you win, frei of cost, <>ne of over two •andred prizes ? Then turn to page 39b. # * # * • The Hepworth "Pinero boom" hursts on the public tliis month with the appearanco of Sweet Lavender and with Iris to follow on March 18th. • * # What will he the effect of Charlie Chaplin's kicking powers (disastrous enough to human beings) on the bull in Carmen, his next subject ?" # # # * A Newcastle man recently made his 103rd rescue from drowning. Qui. ft a re -I of realism, for he is not a film EC ir. But loot er picture his rescues would have made, # * ss * Jackie Saunders, the Balboa beauty, is said to have succeeded in kissing herself on the lips in a clever double-exposure effect. Personally, we would rather she had wasted her energy on other lips — our own, of course. , # « * « " Dark days and long nights, gloomy rumours ai;d pessimistic interpreters," says the Newcastle Journal, " make for depression in the home, and the respite afforded by a visit to a picture-house is an antidote, to depression and a tonic to the spirits." # # # • Old playgoers will remember jkTamzt He Nitouche, which was done as a musical play at the Duke of York's Theatre (then called the Trafalgan, London. Now we note that the story has been filmed by Ambrosio, and will be shortly seen on the screen. # # * # Asked in the House of Commons recently as to the possibility of obtaining leave from the French Government to exhibit films showing the work of the French troops, Mr. Tennant said that if there was a demand for them the films, he was informed, would lie produced. # • * * The Duty-Dodger. " I ET me see," Baid the splendiferous Li shirker, examining t lie tin-. -ugh a glassless circle of gold (class being detrimental to the eyelashes),"] think I'll have an omelette." Whereupon the actress flashed her eyes in the direction of his table, and exclaimed," What you want, young man, is an armlet." /•>. nil A Star at Fifteen! LITTLE Mary Miles Minter, the charming and youilgesl star of the Metro Company, add whose portrait appears as o\ir frontispiece, is only i/\ven years old. Yet she has already played lead in several big Metro productions, and bid9 fair to hecome one of the world's greatest known cinema artists. ^ on will see her shortly in Emmy of Stork's Xest.a delightfully artistic five-part Metro dr. una. We hope fcc have much more to say al Mary's abilities in future issues. Soldiers on the Screen. THE biggest mass of soldiers ever seen at one time in this country is shown on the film at the Empire, Leicester Square, where, during the afternoons, the official Navy and Army films are shown. The scene is the review by the King of two Divisions of the New Army. Ten THE PICTURE PLAYER'S HOLIDAY. No. 10. Kathleen Williams in a Keystone Comic thousand men have passed by when the camera shows a magnificent perspective of thirty thousand men marching with fixed bayonets, the last ranks fading into a faint touch of shining steel, a mile or two away. "Economy" via the Cinema. AN excellent suggestion has been made in an article now before us in regard to the help which our cinemas could be to the Government in popularising by means of the Screen war loans, and instruction in the need for economy. "Our poor have never been taught to save."sa\s Hie Guardian: ""our middleclass have forgotten their lesson, while the wealthy have too often learnt nays of unprofitable spending. If the Government are in earnest, and if they believe in the fervid appeal for economy which has just been issued by a number of distinguished bankers, why not speak With all the eloquence a visual appeal carries to the six million people who will attenjB the cinemas next week, and the weed i'. and the week after that !' Is there* ne in authority with sufficient imagi-J nation to realise, and sufficient couragfl to u-e. this splendid opportunity ? " That exhibitors will as cue man helpJ the authorities in any scheme forth, wel' fare of the country, as indeed they have" done in the past, we can have no doubt J provided always that the K economy 1 taught at cinemas is in .t elsewhere taught ] to weaken the people's " picture' habit. To the Women of Britain. MADAM SARAH BERNHARDT, who my readers will see in the wonderful film Jeanne Dore, has sent the following touching message tc Evert/woman's Weekly for the' en ragement of the women of Britain:—'" Jn this tragic hour my message to every woman in Britain is : Be brave! sure in the victory which awaits my brave countrymen and the Allies. Men must fight, but this is not the time for women to weep. They must be strong in faith, active in warwork, inspiring as ever. l>y their loveand patriotism, the magnificent courage of their countrymen. Fran will never forget what Britain has d and is doing French women and Briti-h women join hands in a bond of mutual sympathy and affection, rejoicing together in the renewed hope of our glorious future and of our eternal friendship cemented in the War.' In the same issue of this popular weekly, publisl on Tuesday next, is a powerful " straight from the shoulder talk " to women, written by Horatio Bottomley, Editor of John Bull. We also noti with interest that there i< an announ meut of a Beautiful Baby competition and a new skill competition with biy money prizes, both of which are to commence in the following week's issue. Pictures in the Snow. ROLLIN S. STURGEON and his company of Vitagraph player are Bnowed-in at Bear Valley. The snows were somewhat late in their arrival this year, and travel is always difficult when once the white carpet _ properly and thickly spread. Mr. Sturgeon has been doing a little shooting, some snow-shoe walking, and canoeing while in the Valley, andjtke trip is anything but a hardship to him, even though it involves the hardest kind of work. Perhaps Yhu Can ? THE poet -its and tears his hair, he's searched the lexicons with care t,> find two words, however rare, that rhyme with Henry Walthall. He's tried " moth-ball." it don't sound right. and " maul," but Henry does not fight, then " he'll call Paul " is silly quite, it's n\i;n to rhyme with Walthall. Then " fall in hall " like Keystone sounds, and " wall " and " pall" are common nouns, there's " stall " and " tall " and " gall " oh! zounds, one cannot rhyme with Walthall. "7fc (pmmufexf a /Ummvt* <zy %uwtati>