Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AJID THE PIGTUREGOER 496 Picture News and Motes IN reply to many, wo have no connection whatever with any other film paper, good, bad, or indifferent. # # * * The ei dilation of Pictures continues to increase by leaps and bounds— especially leaps, this being Leap year. * ' * * * What are the titles of the films illustrated ou page 507? There are ^£65 worth of prizes. « * * * Constance Collier males her film dibut in The Tongues of. Men. Something P< talk about! What? * * * On an average Marguerite Snow ■writes three hundred letters a week. Many of them so to our readers. * * * Robert Warwick's boyhood hobby was collecting birds'-eggs. Even now he is frequently "rip a tree ''whilst the camera waits. Allan Morley, our cartoonist, has just inoved to Hendon, and would like to meet a reader living in that district who is interested in art and pictures. Letters may be sent care of this office. *"'■**'■*■"•-'# Henry Walthall is starring m Mary Page. Jn appearing in a serial he has turned another page in his career. Will lie, as the story progresses, turn the page down or turn it to a happy ending? BILLY MERSON AS CHARLES CHAPLIN. Drawn by Victor Maraton, o reader only sixteen years of age. Gas bombs are not only used-atthe Front. One was actually employed in The Lurking Peril, a Kalem drama, ia— which the actor had to don a respirator. * • * It is rumoured that Eliih Storey intends starting a private detective aey in New Fork City. 1 this because Edith has been sleuthing for a Vitagraph picture during the i month, or is it only a story r * Eleanor Woodruff, the Vitagraph star, recently made bread and biscuits from the wood of several trees coarsely ground up, and served them at a banquet held at her own house. Was it rough on the guests or the wood ? * » Those film fim-makers, Mr. and M Sydney Drew, have begun work on their first Metro one reel comedy. Sj < 'Inn-id/, and Mr. Drew appears in thirtyfou* of the thirty-five scenes ! We can't have too much of a Drew who will draw anywhere, # * * The illusion of the films is complete. When The Red Circle (Balboa's big detective story) was being shown iri America recently, and Ruth Roland was about to step into a trap, some one in the audience shrieked to warn her of apparent danger just as if she were present to hear. Where Is Tweedledum? THE question has often been put to us. Now we can answer it. The famous comedian now belongs to the Vim Company in America, and some startling films in which he appears may be expected in the near future, with Elsie McLeod as his leading lady. Good for Hepworth's. " "TWO notable productions (Iris and 1 A Welsh Singer) shown to the trade." says the Moving Picture World," are the vanguard of many ovM.no from the same source to follow. If those to come match in all-round quality these two subjects theposition of Hepworth" pictures m the American markel should be secure.'' Clara goes to Cuba. CLARA KJMBALL YOUNG, the World Film star, will shortly go to Cuba for a big picture adapted from a noted French novel, the name of which is being kept a secret for the present. She won the New York Mowing Telegraph Popularity Contest, with a total of 1,001,538 votes, or more than all the other contestants combined. All of which proves that she is s imi player. Mix the Miraculous. IN another one of those daring Western dramas. Z//i Passing of Pete, the bandit hero. Pete, is assailed by real bullets, which kick up no end of a dust around the desperado. Finally a bullet is supposed to hit Pete, who pitches headlong down the Bide of a steep declivity. He who pitches is TomMix.the Selig cowboy. (Mi. Tom, Tom '. The risks you run '. . k enoi: Why not Picture Prisons ? THERE are some things which prisons of 4.1ns country b learn even from the pi ia. There, ^aid Mr. J. F I -■•!', in a lecture on al His Majesty's Theatre, every prison has it>. theatre, and all convicts with a two months' record of nducf eu the relief thus afforded from the m tony of everyday routine. The theal one governor told him. maintained discipline better than a hundred o Wanted— a Handsom Alan. The Universal Company of A want a handsome man. and in a Contest which closes on April 1st (Yes, we notice the date) offer the winning handsome one a year's contract as a pictu Among the photographs 'hey have ceived is one m Prince wit name is Pong ' anished from Korea at tfa a twelve. He he wan+s to write the story of his life for the films, and that he would ■ it " Prince Pong Yee's Strngg i Life." The struggle to see Pong V a the screen would no doubt be a migbtv one. His D bat for "Trnngle." HB WAR-NERhas completed his first . play. 2%c /.' • with Triangle and is nearing the completi the second, The />' I !■' the second play he has to wear a beard, An actor considers his face his trademark, and he wants his trademark I easily identified. However. H. B. made no kick. "If I can't act the part well enough to overcome so small a handicap 1 don't deserve it at all." he said. '" All I want is a chance to do a real characterisation. If it's good. Warner w be overlooked ! England has never sent a miliar young actor to America than fienry B. Warner. As the star of Jimmy Valentine he played a whole year to capacity audiences in New York, and to equally la ge l>u>" -■ ' era! seasons thereafter on the road. M >i ■ recently he was the star of / Breaker. He is tali, lit-h looking, an expert horseman, a ma cultivation, grace, and / • /,' ,, • | will aft »rd him cial opportunities, for he had relatives in the Ki-t In ban Army, and li is as familiar to him as London. \ York, or aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiHiiiHiiimiiiiiiiiiu 1 Three big Pinero j | tilms have been | | produced by the j | Hepworth company. | =ni|||!i|||||||||||!llli!lllllllllllll!lll!ll!i!ll'lll!Mil!lllllllllllllirn