Reel Life (1916-1917)

TOPICAL FEATURETTES — Gaumont Three timely reels with a special value when the public wants all the news MUTUAL WEEKLY— 122 EMARKABLE pictures from Washington, D. C., showing the arrival of the great British and French missions sent to this country to con¬ fer with the American government on war measures are contained in the Mutual Weekly, No. 122. The Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, England’s minister of fore¬ ign affairs, and his suite are pictured as they reach Washington by rail. They are met by high state digni¬ taries and escorted to the home of Breckenridge Long. The Gaumont cameraman also caught Mr. Balfour and Secretary of State Lansing as they went to call on the President. The French mission was photo¬ graphed as it debarked from the President’s yacht “Mayflower.” Rene Viviani and General Joffre are the principal figures. There is also a pic¬ ture of the home of Henry White, former ambassador to France, where the distinguished French visitors will live while in Washington. The West point cadets of the class of 1917 were graduated ahead of time, but not with such speed that they were not caught by a Gaumont cameraman for this issue of the Mutual Weekly. Other pictures bearing on the war show , the parade of the Eighth Coast Batallion in New York, and the ride of “Paul Revere” in Boston with an escort of National Guard cavalrymen. The doings in Washington are events that will loom large in the his¬ tory of the world. The Mutual Weekly offers special value to the exhibitor at this time when the public looks to the pictures to see what is doing in this world of armament and war. The was has a personal interest to every picture pat¬ ron now. So have the weekly’s pic¬ tures of war news. A special herald of exceptional ad¬ vertising value is obtainable in quan¬ tities at low prices for the use of ex¬ hibitors running “The Vampires,” the mysterious and compelling Gaumont series depicting life among the Apaches of Paris. This herald is made up like a sensational newspaper. Ask your Mutual exchange manager about it. Mr. Charles Chaplin in his pose as “Napoleon Crossing the Delaware,” which appears in his latest picture, en¬ titled “The Cure,” is such a hit among exhibitors, for use in press and adver¬ tising copy, that the publicity depart¬ ment has ordered it made up in elec¬ trotype form for distribution through the exchanges. Buy this cut at any Mutual exchange for 35 cents, the schedule price. REEL LIFE— 55 HE foremost feature of “Reel Life” No. 55, which will appear on May 17, shows how telephone lines are laid across the continent, with details of construction and operation that are of special educational and travel value, the section being en¬ titled “Speeding the Broken Word.” Other sections display the method of preparing crabs for the table by wholesale and is entitled “The Toothsome Crab.” Still another pic¬ ture shows how ingenious dealers are beating the high cost of furs. MUTUAL TOURS AROUND WORLD— 28 NTENSELY interesting scenes showing the island of Barbadoes, a storied British posses¬ sion, and the ancient , castles of France, arg comprised in two sec¬ tions of Gaumont’s “Tours Around the World,” No. 28, released through the Mutual May 15. The scenes in Barbadoes are of especial interest since they display a civilization akin to that of the Virgin Islands which the United States government has just acquired from Denmark. The island of Barbadoes may be visited by many American soldiers who form our French expenditionary force. The castles shown in this issue are situated along the River Loire. Only, to mention their names con¬ jures up pictures of important events in French history. At Blois Castle the Duke of Guise was assassinated by order of Henry III ; at Chambord Castle once lived Stanislas, King of Poland ; at Ambroise Castle, where Charles VIII was born and died, is buried Leonardo da Vinci, painter of “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Sup¬ per;” at Langeais Castle Charles VIII married Anne of Brittany; and at Chenonceaux Castle once lived Catherine deMedici. The Barbados pictures give an ex¬ cellent understanding of this island which was visited by Columbus in 1493. There are numerous views of Bridgetown, including the water front and the principal square and buildings. The sugar estates are seen, as well as the life of the natives away from the towns. One unex¬ pected picture is the tomb of Ferdinando Paleologus, last Christian Emperor of Greece, who died in Bar¬ bados in 1678. The West Indies pictures now being released at intervals by the Gaumont Company through Mutual exchanges are being taken by Willard Van der Veer, with J. Norton Nellis as his as¬ sistant. Mr. Van der Veer is prob¬ ably the most famous camera man of the tropics. Conditions there require the highest skill. He is now working in Trinidad, making pictures for both “Reel Life,” the magazine in films, and “Tours Around the World.” REEL LIFE— Page Six