Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

FICiURliS AND TfiU PIC'l UREGOER 404 Week Jan. 29. i9i( PffBE] POSES OF KllANK KOSBEET ClIEROK.t, THE A-MERIe AN-In IAN' i'LAYER. before I paid 64i000 for a hotel which 1 was running there when the Hans pecwgied the town. Tliey are there now, worse luck ! and, of course. I lost everything. I only just managed to get away in. time by hard fighting through the crowds to the steamer. Y>s.it ivas exciting': I shall never forget itaslono' as I live. In London 1 am now playing for Davidson's. I have just finished the juvenile heavy part in The StolenBridt episode of the ■I»h,i Drcn-. DihcCir, series, a three-reel brook story. For this picture we made use of Sir John Robinson's old country house at Woodford. Peggy Richards played the part of t he bride, and I had to steal her."" Mr. Gheroka paused to deposit the , end of a cigarette in our editorial ashtray. " Mr. Rooke played the detective," he continued, ''and my confederate (Charles Vane) and I tortured him on a wheel. Yes. I lielieve he enjoyed it. for he is still smiling. Oh. yes. I went to prison for my sins. 1 am to appear in their next film. I cannot tell you the name, because nine times out of ten we don't know the name until we are right through with the picture. and sometimes not then.'" We hope shortly lo have the pleasure f>f seeing this typically American-Indian player on the screen. He is one of the hesl dressed men we know, and a good t it le tor him would he th? Beau Bvunxiha! of pictures. Sally Crute Suffers a Fall. SAUA CRUTE, the leading lady of the Edison ( lompanj . had the misfortune to suffer a severe accident last week. While ascending the stairs to her dressing-roorn in the Bedford Park studio of the ctjmpanj she slipped ami tell, fracturing both knee | ans. She was taken to her 10, mis in the End cot I Jlotel. and the doctor who attended her said that she would be confined to her apartments for at least four weeks. JUST OUTS Handsome Coloured Postcards of BLANCHE SWEET PAULINE FREDERICK Pbicb Owe l'> mn E lc r 11 THE PICTURES Ltd., 85 & 86. Long Acre London. Who is Bloggie? AN ESSANAY PRIZE COMPETITION. HE is the quintessence and quaintessence of "picture" comedy. He is a fun architect, with an inexhaustible store of whimsicalities from which to model his comicalities on. He has a style all his own Like Cha] "iin.he has discovered the hilarionsness of hats and the facetiou.sness of feet, and his face, walk, and gestures are all equally. funny. But. unlike any other comedian on the screen, he has fully exploited the jocundity of the optic. He believes that the eyes are the funniest features on the face— WHO IS HE? A prize lor the fits! eorrWi answer. TAKE YOUR opinions .1' i"d-nosed comedian* withstanding. Bloggie his ljcen seemed by t&i Company, and will amnse pictni _ 'Jreai Britain. With <rr*-at pleasure v. lish a portrait of I man hir in " reduced " eircmne fortnights time we will intn u readers in his entirety. bo is Bloeu ! I of the 1 en ; he has often made you la and in the . ially written I ties he has We -hail sea I tilth" reader 01 tin journal ■■ ■ •man identity. On a postcard, write what you tin: i Bloggie « real name, and ; '"Bloggie," 1' Long A.< re, London, W.< '. The of the first eprrect reply received wJ be awarded a handsome mm OUR LETT£R-BAG Selected from hundreds every week. Who Wants Some Fre= Copies ? •I am leaving England for M ' thought perhaps yea wonfd ah. that any reader of vonr most in' paper can have. Ear p< stage to their mro address, about one bundled and forti of Pi. riKKS. 1 have taken the books -ince they wen' first published, ami it is with much regret that I have to part with them. I nit with so much ln.'.'a,''' it is quite impossilfl i" lake them with me. •■ T"i 1 hwood r How It Is Con •. • I 5hink v.iiir nr simply great, \\'h« 11 the first set an waivable to guess all the films with the ex coption of one. aiulthat 1 h;nln I got ail my back 11 1 her. ami started looking' MB the liai rilnis Till I found it. Xn-iirally I. was im|ia tient for the second set. ami when it came 1 tilled in tlv name of tlie first, and turned t< rt. and ihe nejrt. ■■ ■ ■ I the next, hui alas! had not seen any of them. tVut eanu ,ks. ami after ahout ten ) perusal 1 managed to find the second picture. but the last two were n<»j> ess. Well, last evei.ing 1 went to the cinema an I In and behold! a film came on wliieh the same as the last picture. I ruslie I ij the title lilt .1 in ui h Uli given and it did-! Mm .1 a oil of luck. wasn t it • But T have still the third pic lure to tinil out. Blow I 111 m;i;' \ week s sot. I can tell you it's fine tun. I . K. (Croydon). See " Jewel " and Think ! ■ I have been to see the famous Cliristi Science picture entitleil ./• ••■ . It is one of the prettiest and best produced pictures 1 have ever seen. Every oVtail is perfect, aifl Ella Hall as the little girl who scatters hapnl ness wherever she goes is just tine. 1 -honld advise everj person who is at all interested ifl 'thinking' pietnres to ro ami see t >.is ona It has made me think a lot. K. S. (Higligi 'THE BEST GIRL TO COMMUTERS