Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

ricture Show, Xovcmber dtft, 1920. Famous Readers of the " Picture Show. No. 43. — BERNARD DUDLEY. BERNARD DUDLEY'S smile is proof enough that he is pleased with this issue of the Picture Show. You'll find a copy in every British studio, any Monday morning you look in. And now British films are coming to the fore, you will find more news of our own British players in this premier paper for picture-goers. — +-* — This Week's Pleasant Surprise. YOU will remember I told you that there was another pleasant surprise for those who look forward to our Art Plates. As soon as you turn to our centre supplement you will know it is here. There are more and more of these beautiful pictures in which the hero and heroine are posed by your favourites in filmland. Will you write and tell me i£ you like them ? Just a Reminder. LOVERS of our Art Plates should also remember that the fourth coloured picture is presented with No, 4 of the " Girls' Cinema," out to-morrow. This is entitled " Say Yes," and is a beautiful proposal scene, the hero and heroine being the well-loved film stare, Charles Ray and Scena Owen. These pictures have received such universal praise, I couldn't resist a last reminder to my readers of the Picture Show to be sure and secure copies for themselves. The Wonder Man in the "Picture Show." AS I expect you know, Georges Carpentier, the man who is world famous as a boxer and a perfect type of manhood, has appeared in a film. This film has the fitting title, " The Wonder Man." The story of the film has been secured for the Picture Show, and will run for two weeks, commencing next Monday. Every man and woman in the country will be interested in this story, which has a real hero playing the part of a reel hero. It is a story of love, intrigue, and sport. Don't miss it, and tell your friends. They will thank you. — m — Is This For You ? JAMES KNIGHT tells me some kind reader of the PrcTuitE Show has sent him a tobacco-pouch, but he has no means of ascertaining who the sender is, as all the signature on the little note was " A female reader of the Picture Show," and there was no address. Mr. Knight begs me to convey his hearty thank3 and appreciation of the gift. So, little lady, who considers James Knight -the " best actor in the whole world," Mr. Knight thanks you Pli6b,qTapKg ard Paragraph.^ oP Pictures. Play^ and Player/* Music versus the Screen. I SAW Ivor Novollo just before he left London for Paris, to see himself as others will see him in Louis Mercanton's film version of " Miarka." Ho told me that he does not intend to desert his musical work for the all-conquering films. As you know, his latest song, " Thoughts of You," is being sung with tremendous success by Miss Jose Collins, in " A Southern Maid," at Daly's theatre, London. Mr. Novello says that it bids fair to rival his now historic " Keep the Homo Fires Burning." Gareth Hughes as " Tommy." I HEAR that Gareth Hughes has been chosen to enact the role of Tommy in the picture version of J. M. Barrie's famous novel, " Sentimental Tommy." Gareth has risen to the forefront of film players in the brief space of twelve months, after making a great impression on the speaking stage. As you know, he is only 21 years old, was born in Wales, went to America as a member of the Welsh Players, and has stayed there ever since. — *-¥ — Raymond Wants to Know. DO you know that Raymond Hatton, the character actor now appearing in Goldwyn pictures, says that he receives more letters from admirers in England, than from America? Yet Mr. Hatton is an American, and has never been in England. How do you account for this ? — *-f — Now the Spiritualistic Screen Play. YOU know there is a wave of public interest in spiritualism now sweeping through the country. Three of the most successful plays in London have this theme, "The Unknown," " The Crossing," and " Mar}' Rose,'r so the coming screen version of Robert W. Chambers's novel, " Athalie," is expocted to create a sensation, when it is shown over here. The story centres round a girl, possessed of psychic powers. From her sheltered country home, she becomes a popular and well-known spiritualist. We shall see Sylvia Breamor, Conrad Nigel, and other popular players in this film. — *-* — She Means to be a Pilot. POPPY WYNDHAM tells mo she is busily trying to learn the strictly technical side of flying, for she is determined to pilot a machine on her own account before many more weeks have elapsed. She admits that the work is both hard and tiring, but she feels that knowledge as to how to pilot a machine is bound to come in useful to her some time in her film work, so she is working with this end in view. L' No. not Harold Lloyd, but BRYANT WASHBURN and MARGUERITE L00MIS in the coming film " The Sins of St. Antony." Glasses do make a difference, don't they ? Dangerous Dance Frocks. 1GHTED gas fires and Hawaiian dance frocks do not take kindly to each other when the gas stove is alight, for, as you know, these hula-hula frocks are made of grasB. This was the cause of what was nearly a tragedy at the Metro studios the other day, when one of the dancers who was working with Madame Doraldina, walking past the lighted stove, swished her skirt in the fire, and in an instant was in flames. One of the men immediately grabbed a coat, and threw it around her, smothering the flames before much damage was done. Needless to say the other Hawaiian danoers, cold as they were in their tropical frocks, kept away from the stove, thinking it better to be cool than burnt. An Ungentlemanly Ape. ^ T HEAR that Dorothy Phillips is nursing a I bruised head, as the result of being hit by a cocoanut, hurled from the dizzy height of a giant tree, by a large ape. Four members of the ape family were used to give realism to her coming picture, " Men, Women, and Marriage," and it was when Miss Phi'lips was enacting a most dramatic scene with James Kirkwood that this ungentlemanly ape hurled the nut. Dorothy says that a large picture hat she was wearing probably saved lier from more serious injury than she received. Their Best Parts on the Screen. IT is not always an asset for a screen player to be " born to the part." For instance. Charles Ray, 'you must know, was born and reared in a town, yet it is in the " simple country boys " parts that he excels. While Ward Crane, whom most of you have seen as a dapper city youth, wa3 reared on a farm. The best plays of these respective stars are said to be the ones shortly to be released. Charles Ray in " Peaceful Valley," and tWard Crane, with Anita Stewart, in " Harriet and the Piper." The Pope on the Film. MOVING pictures of Pope Benedict the XV. have been'secured, after many months of effort to remove the bar against camera-men at the Vatican. These remarkable pictures constitute the first opportunity ever given to view the Supreme Prelate in action, as well as to witness tha most sacred ceremonies of the Vatican. Troubles Never Come Singly. PEARL WHITE has both of her cars in the repair shop. And the athletic actress put them there" herself. She drove one over an embankment to avoid hitting two children. That she did not mind. But when she backed into a ten-ton