Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOEI* Picture News and notes WHO IS BLOGGIEr ■ KM.) * « * • Are you trying for one of the C65 worth of prizes? (See page U3.) * * * Henry B. Walthall baa been duckhunting along the Illinois River. * # * 77/e Woman Who Bid is being 9hpwn to his Majesty's Navy on board ff.M.S. Orion by request of its officers and men. * • ■ • * Selig have the distinction of showing tlie first picture to be exhibited before the Pone in the Vatican at Rome. * # # Yon saw Mary Miles Minter's picture in our last week's issue? We hear that directors fight to direct her. Each one is pacified by a turn. * # Alone in London, the Ideal Turnerniade drama, is not Buffering from loneliness. A big crowd is always present. * # # # Day and night films ! In Kansas City a theatre has been opened to run picture shows for twenty-one hours daily. Pity the poor pianist ! * # # « Well! Well! In The Gentleman from Indiana, a Pallas picture, 14,000 gallons of water were required, and every gallon ■was hauled by motor-trucks from a well three miles away. A real coloured man, not a " make up," has done some clever acting as a negro servant in The Greatest Power, an Eclair nlru dealing with hypnotism. * # # # Kitty Gordon, popular in London musical comedies a year or two ago. is the latest stage star to succumb to the films, and is to appear in As in a Looking Glass, under the World Film brand. # * # # Mary Pickford, it is announced, is going to write every day for the Montreal Hej'ald: Her articles will deal with the Home, the World, the Theatre, the Church. Love. Ambition, and oilier topics of human interest. William Garwood wishes you to know that h>' is not married, but hopes to be. lie has no sympathy with the man who is too selfish to be married, and thinks that double-harness and a few children are preferable to single blessedness. * * * * Neva ( ferber has an admirer who writes her from different towns, but never signs his name. Each letter is a little nearer California, and Neva is wondering whether her correspondent will eventually turn up at the studios. * # ■ # Grace Cnnard loves precious -tones. and her home contains both diamonds and sapphire-. For the benefit of 1 bad burglars she Keep a gun, and Grace (who i part-author of can hit a coin at twentv pa* George Lost the Point. TIIH following took pla Standard Film Folio . cago : — First Exhibitor I see John Bunny has joined Barnum and Bailey." Second Exhibitor " Why, John Bunny is dead ! " First Exhibitor " Well, 1 -aid he had joined Barnum and Bailey." George, the porter, went back to the poster department, and the following conversation occurred : George — " I see that fat John Bunny has joined Buffalo Bill." Poster Clerk --" Why, John Bunnv is dead ! " George—" Well. I don't know whether Buffalo Bill is dead, but 1 hear all the folks in the office laughing." Church and Cinema. MR. FRANK GROAT, of Athens Pennsylvania, has recently sold his cinematograph outfit, generally considered one of the most complete in the State, says the Philadelphia North American, to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Elmira, New York. It is the intention of the church, according to Mr. Groat, to use films in connection with all sen i A few weeks ago we published the fact that a complete film drama was shown in a New York church, and followed by a sermon based on the story. A Real War Story. HERMANN DAREWSKI. who • is contributing a series of arti les, "How .1 Write ray Songs,"' to Everi/icomans Wt Mi . tells a real story regarding his famous song "When we wind up the Watch on the Rhine." in the refrain of which a phrase of the German song "The Watch on the Rhine " is introduced. Many officers and men visit the London Hippodrome when home oh leave; and " it took very little time." says Mr. Darewski, " for the chorus of my song to be carried out t Flanders. In the dark, -till watches of a certain night a detachment of our boy in khaki. feeling assured that they wer.e a long way from the nearest Germans, started to sine the chorus of this song. But the enemy \\anearer than had been suspected, and the familiar tune penetrated to his trenches. The linn came to the rather natural conclusion that some comrade were singing their own national sone-. and joined in. revealing their position, Week en Jan. 29. 19161 a heavy attafl on the enemy position, and about oH Germans most nave been \en ever written." tatty and .Mabel Go East. THE X tone Cofl pany, under the diree s<J buckle, left I. \ York on December Sorniand is the star. The probably use Fort Lee studios, but work will nfiued to thi eit^Q as they will handle a good man] tions in various parts of the East. Players "Gassed" in Studio. LACK 1 foresight on the part offl dii -utly came near cansiJ the deaths of several players at tbj Yitagraph studios in Brooklyn. X.Yi Whilst a scene was under productidj littles and retorts filled with nitrii acid and brass filings were sending noxious fumes through rubber tulie into an adjoining set. a fact which til producer failed to note until everybody -tailed coughing. Walking around the set, the producer found Van Dyk0 Brooke and Leah Baird Bitting in chain unconscious. Tbey were carried int(5 the open air and revived. WHERE'S YOUR ARMLET? The author Jones, after leaving this charmi actress out ot the cast, is told by her that lie oiud to be playing a part hiuis It — iii A'Aoti .'