Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER >42 Wj-.fk ekdixc M.-.KCII II, ]gj< Picture Mews and Motes "THE PICTURES" STAFF. No. 1. The Editor. ONLY three more weeks for finding the film and winning one of our £65 worth of prizes. * # # * Last Monday morning's mail was a record! Over six hundred letters containing orders for postcards and — questions '. * «_ * * It is said that 121,000 feet were wasted in photographing The Birth of a Sn/ioti. The film as shown is 12X>00 feet long. * * * * In next week's issue: the concluding Btoi'y of Ultus : '/'■> Uanfrom the Dead, and a fine story of the Trans-Atlantic him Il< r Pre// . **#■;* In the matter of notifying the inhal ita Jits of big towns, or those of them in the picture-theatres, of the near coining of Zepps.th'e screen should once more prove itself a useful public servant. * # * # " Betty," a chimpanzee, plays a leading pari in Crime and Penalty, a "Martin three-reel thriller, and Betty's fee for performing before the camera is .stated to have been £40 a day. Hetty has "pulled the strings.'' so to speak. * * u « The Yell of the Yell aw Press. IF all the film imports (says '/'.'/< Si consisted of i ositiveprints the most I ulky form in which pictures of a given value can lie can i< d the whole year's import Sl,200,000 worthwould ipy a space less than LOOft. long, 60ft. wide, and 20ft. high, or the equivalent of less than one small steamer, sneh .s the packet-boats that plj between this countrj and thesis erisle. So much for the freight and tonn • " argument." (ioing to the Dogs. A .MOTION picture projecting ma-' chine Ins just been s >ld to a mining camp in Alaska. On the final stage of its journey the machine will be transported by an Alaskan d _ = * i the snow to it destina tion. One might almost say tint here is a case of " mo> :'■■ " going to the i The Two Spiders. PAULINE FREDERICK will be seen later on in'TTie Spider. \ fine star and a fine title.' ]Te3;bntwe understand the Essanay Company have produced a drama called '/'.: which features Ruth Stonehi Another fine star, but the same title. We shall have two spiders crawling on the screen unless either company can substitute a bluebottle or some other creature for one of them. "Why Women Must Save." LET it be said with truth hereafter that the great world war of 1914-16 in defence of civilisation, justice. and humanity was largely won by the self-sacrifice of the women of the British Empire." This is the striking summingup made by the Right Hon. the Earl of Meath, P.O.. in an intensely interesting article by him, under the title "Why Women Must Save," which appears in the issue of Everywomah's dated March 11th. on sale on Tuesday next. Is this the Smallest Cinema? VANADIUM, Colnmbia, is so small that it is not even marked on the map. The seating capacity of its cinema is seventy-five, and two shows are given weekly. Henry B. Walthall and Edna Mayo pay frequent screen visits there. although toget to their destination they have to encounter great difficulties. As Vanadium does not possess a railway station the films destined for its cinema are -thrown on the mountain .side while the train is passing through, The returned films are carried fifteen miles on horseback to the expri ss olfice. Already "Made Up." HERE is a letter received by the World Film Company of America: "Much against n.\ families' wishes 1 have decided to be a movie actor, and as] like your pictures so much I want you should have the first chance to hire me. 1 would make a tin.' type for leading man. hero parts, first \ ill, mis. comical characters and Jewish. Another reason is that you would save a lot of money on me in face paint. 1 imd stand all movie actors paint their faoe yellow. This would not be necessary in my case as 1 have the jaundice." Prosperous Balboa. TEE rise of Balboa films is like a fairy tale. After an extensive theatrical experience. 11. M. Horkheimer came to Southern California in 1912, determined to get into the picture business, At the time he had never seen a cinematographic camera, but he t<v.k o\ei t(. udio vacated by thel Bdison c ncern in 1. cli, and! i ted ■ n o joined by E. D. 1! ri \\ ho l.adi ■trical engineer u| time. Gradually tlie-plant increased in and capacity, and to-day all four corners of two iut streets. There are a dozen builds _with an annual capacity i i reach <: K O.OOOiu pay-roll already runs inl "Greatness" on the Film. IT is never « ise I that the mi' ill not i writer in tb "There may come a time when careful cri ti>'s v. ill award tos the treasured adjecti tiie present time certainly any such of the adjective would Be absurd. The movie drama has pable nor given tbt »t indica tion that it ever can show itself ca] . of affording an actor the chance to do great work." .And we have 1 •i-i-tentlr called many of our film stare " ureat " players. But our readers will agi with us that he who wrote the above is scarcely accurate. "Not What Pictures Make Him." PRESIDENT WILSON was tha guest of honour at the First Annual Dinner of the Motion Picture Board of Trade of America to which nearly one thousand guests sat down. The following is quoted from the P: dent's address, which was confined largely to his own contact with the industry: "I have sometimes i very much chagrined at seeing mvself in a motion picture. I have often wondered if I really could be that kind of a guy. The extraordinary rapidity with which I walked, for example: the instantaneous and apparently automatic nature of my motions; the way in which [ produce uncommon grimaces, and altogether the extraordinary exhibition I make of myself st nds me to bed very unhappy .... But I am not what 1 appear to be in the pictures you make of me. I really am a pretty decent fellow, and 1 have a lot of emotions that do not show ^n the and the things that 1 don't say would fill a library. The great cr< ss of public life is that you are not allowed to say all the things that you think." ^IIJIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllliiMillllllllllllllllllllllj; 1 A complete cinema j | programme, changed j | weekly, can be pro ; | duced by Hep worth. | iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii