Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 513 Picture News and Notes N EXT week we shall publish the story of the long-announced film, Thi Tailor of "Bond Sti Last few weeks! Of course you go to the pictures; but are }ou watching for tlio.se film scenes ? • * * • Four more scenes on page 531. Favour us with titles. It will fascinate yon to fix 'em. and t here is no fee for finding 'em. • » « <* » "Pictures'' in the making. In next week's issue we shall begin a series of cartoons of members of our staff. * # * * Other great British pictures: Far from the Madding Oroied, A Welsh Singer, and Doorsteps. They're Turner films, and, having seen them, we know they're trreat. * # • *" April 1st is All Fools' Day. On April Oth wise pictuTegoers will see The Purple Iris, the six-week serial which shows a princess in a royal harem. ' * * « # "We read that the film trade in Austria is very active, and that a great film, The Moore House Mj/ster//, is being prepared by the Oesterr'eiehische Filmindustrie Company. Another mystery ! * a # # A dainty dish. Four-and-twenty dancers from American vaudeville will form a beauty chorus in Essanay's «;oming five-reeler, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. * * * # It is possible that Spain will produce a film version of Dun Quia-ote to commemorate the tercentenary of Cervantes' death. If the idea materialises the Spanish Government will grant one hundred thousand pesetas (about tt.oOO) to pay for the production. In America an :' eyesight hill " i:> being promoted to ordain that a ten-mi interval should follow each thirty minutes of pictures. We presume that a professional waker-up win be employed. « * » • Tt is stated t bal I Ihina sends annually to the United States £6,000 of peanuts, the shells of which are distributed in the cinema theatres. British shells are fortunately distributed among the Germans. * * m • According to the Berliner Ta no one between the ages of fourteen and eighteen may now visit German picturetheatres. The reason given is that immorality on the screen has ceaselessly increased. Trying to catch up with the German Army, we suppose. * * * • The Two Mrs. Tanquerays. THE first appearance of Sir George Alexander in the cinema halls is creating a lot of interest. Sir George is appearing in The Sect n < \frs. Taitquerag, in his old part of Aubrey Tanqueray. The name-part is being essayed by Hilda Moore, and a novelty in the production is the appearance iii the film of a character which only existed in imagination in the stage-play namely, the first Mrs. Tanqueray. This part is being played by Minna Grey. A Reil Resemblance. A NEWSPAPER writer has discovered a facial resemblance between the hero in His Worship the Mayor and the redoubtable Mr. Horatio Bottomley. There is some sorr of resemblance between the features of Horatio and the honest Mayor in this American production, but "the Ideal Company, who own the picture, assure us that the resemblance was unintentional. T*amK r\V^ '. THE TWO CHARLIES: "Mr. Pest " of the Stalls and .Mr. Rowdy" of the Gallery. Both pints arc played by Charles Chaplin in Chat-lit ,U the Shaw, W^^ii WkEK END1N March 4 19; Our Film Stories. FULL stories of the following fil have appeared in our F< brua issues : s v.', ,.-. II Wit \out . uury otb; Ti I. Messenger. The Commuters, Febrati 12th; Bloggic the (_■, Iiif'eli February 19th ; and Zazu February -''I The Boxing Hepworth Star. WHEN" Stewart Rome was in trai ing for his strenii' us fighti part in '!'!•<■ \Vhi'< II ,p, he w easily the most pleased man in Walt* Courteous and calm in private lil his friends and acquaintances all si pected that his new power as a liox miirht lead him astray. Fortunate] nothing happened, and the film wn he made will lie ready on March 8th, "Jimmy" will be a Success. JIMMY. " the most recent B and film. d< • I elonga to Gaumo Film Hire Service. This film ve sion of John Strange Winter story w produced by Eliot Stannard and A. Brambl?. Great care was taken obtain the correct atmosphen various fitments (for advertisemel rates apply to Manager) were used ensure reality in various scenes. \A call this film a jjooJ one. and cons qucntly it should liook well. A Courageous Camera-man. J. T. RUCKER was sent to photograj an experiment in burning film ; Leonia. The Trans-Atlantic lm much at sta\e. They wished to dete mine before they built their studio, fa tory.and laboratory just what resistant to explosion the walls should have, ar what apertures should be made in ther A vault was made, and tilled with million feet of waste film. The apertui was covered with glass, and there was a electric attachment to set off the fir Ruckerwas told of the hoped-for com? of the flame, and took his place with tl camera some fifty feet from the apertui and about fifteen feet out of the dire; line. Then the fuse was fired, and. lili a flash of a mammoth cannon, the flan spurted out in a horizontal line. Tl: million feet of film burnt itself out i fifteen minutes, and inside of thre minutes the spurt was opposite wher Rncker stood turning his crank. Th heat was terrific. and Rneker's eyebrow and the hair on his wrists were singe and his skin burned before he consentti to move his camera back. The flam eventually reached seventy-five fee from the mouth of the vault. HJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIililllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllt! I Cecil M. Hepworth I himself produced I Iris, and Sweet i Lavender. rTllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllS