Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOE?. 422 Picture News and Notes THE PICTURE PLAYERS HOLIDAY. No. 11. G. M. And rson as Billy Mekson. Next week! A fine story of Rosemary—that's for Remembrance, the fiveoart Metro production. * * * * . "Tilly;' the sixty-year-old Selig elephant, lias been taking the Mayor of Los Angeles and a party round the Selig Zoo grounds on her ancient back. * # # # A ninety miles-an-liour gale blew ont a number of panes of glass at the Gaumont Studio, Flushing, N.Y. Quite a breeze in the dressing-rooms. * # # * A Trans-Atlantic Company of players arc tripping it to China. Japan, India; and South Africa of course, for filming purposes. How these players do enjoy themselves! * # # # Fire-worship and its remarkable prophetess, who perishes on the altar of her own deity while saving a multitude of entranced onlookers, is the theme of a Vitagraph feature called '///< Power. * # # # In '/'//,• linns, ,,i Tears (Metro) Emily Stevens, « ho plays both parts of mother and daughter, whilst riding in a big ear runs down her mother in other words, she drives her car over herself! Aivn't these cinema tricks wonderful? * • * # There has never been a more pro mising continued Btorj screened than 'l'h< Red Circle, which Balboa is now doing r..r Pathe's. Ruth Roland and Frank .Mayo are in the east, as also are many other persons famous in lilmdoin. [h Lancashire, what was once ■< skalmg-rink, holding some t,000 people, is .--aid to be bringing it -^ owner a small fortune. A large sreeu cnts the gi floor in two so that two an lienccs can see the other set (films) at the same time. * * # Our January Film Stories. FULL stories of the following films have appeared in our January issues: The Vortex, Those Children, January 1st ; The Juggernaut, January 8th; Sold, The Winner, January 15th; The Four Feathers Sweet Lavender, January 22nd; Scandal, January 29th. A Narrow " Shave." OXE of the few screen stars who wears his own moustache for pictures is Henry B. Walthall. In the first part of The Strange Case of Mary Page he is to appear as a youth with an upper lip as bare as a bald head and later he has to wear a moustache Result: Mr. Walthall beasts that he will raise a full-blown moustache for the part within two weeks ! It's a narrow " shave." anyway. A Bit of the Adelphi. I\\ OXDER how many Londoners know of the existence of Lower Robert Street— a gloomy cavernous passage leadiug ont of York Buildings and forming part of the old Adelphi arches? writes "Quex" in the Evening News. Viewed in a fading afternoon light, the place seems to suggest the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and I should strongly advise any cinema play producer to note its location in his address-book. He would find it very useful for, say. the approach to the dungeons of a feudal castle or a subterranean passage in the Bastille or the Prison of Chillon. A lip re Binding. WE hope that not one Pictures reader fails to keep a file of the paper. Many who send their copies to the trenches are in the habit of removing the wire stitching for a moment, taking out the sheets they wish to keep, and then stitching the remainder together again. Several readers have told us that they tile the Hepworth advertisement whether they "read them Hist " or not. Here is a tip: Bind the Pictt ri:s by months. using the Hepworth Picture Play Paper for that month as cover, the Hepworth paper being larger in size than PlCT0KES. Any who have not yet sent 2s. Eorayear's subscription (twelve copies post-paid) to the Hepworth Company. 2, Demnan Street. \\\. ought to do so at mire. Valli Valli Hurt. VAl.1,1 VALLI, whose portrait appears on page in. has jnsl finished her work in a "Metro" production, I'h, Woman Pays, but had to act for weeks with a broken wrist. she recent y gave an interviewer an ml of the accident i " The woman Wkfk i i l'l !!. 5. I9I6 ! She doe< she does . : She thought she'd crank up her own automobile just once, for the fun of it, to show that -be could do it in an ei _ icy. But the thing knew -he was :i man. and bang! Wrisl smasl three operations and tie picture waiting for me. Was there ever a title I fitted so well as that ? " Exit the Wicked Cigare'.te. THE ( >hi ■ i: ard l ire, which! incurred the enmity ..f young lady picturegoere in the State by Wishing a footage limit on tl. for kissing, now Bternly banns the cigarette-smoking, without which film villainesses can never hope to lie either adequately fascinorons or fascinating. Apparently the Board fears that goings-on would afford shocking examples to the real villainesses who may occasionally patronise the "pictui Because of the prohibition, we hear that Lillian Drew, the alluring Essa " villaiuess." is considering th^ a J -ability of learning to snijke a pipe. British Fleet for Realism. ONE of the big scenes in the An, Kellermann picture, in production by William Fox. at Kingston. Jamaica, under the direction of Herbert Brenou. will be the bombardment the historic Fort Angusta, restored to a resemblance of its original military importance by Mr. Pox's army of employees now on the island. Now it i< t be destroyed again for moving-picture purposes, and it is stated that the British West Indian fleet, stationed off Jamaica, will use real powder and shells and all the paraphernalia of war in accomplishing its destruction. Is Your Baby Beautifu"? IX addition to the second of Herman Darewski's sen'—. " How I Write My Songs," in which appears the full words and music of the refrainoft he great pantomime success," Somebo !y Knows. Somebody Cares," the current issue of I.' ivomans Weekly contains another powerful Straight from the Shoulder Talk " by Horatio Botto nley. entitled Who*s 1 our Lady Friend ? ' and the first page of photographs in the Beautiful Baby Competition, in which cash prizes of £150 are offered. The new feature. " Woman and Her Work, "by an expert, is proving invaluable to the girl who is considering the question of a career. pilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlllllllllllllllllllK£ I In 1898, before any j I other British produe 1 | ers, Cecil M. Hepworth f | founded his company. 1 .^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiirH