The following group games for children are planned primarily for the use of teachers and game leaders. It has been my experience that many of the games described in various books do not meet with universal approval on the part of children because the end and aim are not what they desire.
I have, accordingly, taken the liberty of changing the plan of many familiar games to suit the...
I have played nearly every kind of card game in nearly every part of the world. Always I have played for money, and sometimes for a lot of money. I have had a chance to observe, in action, nearly every type of card player.
Some of these have studied their favorite games for a long time and know a lot about them, and yet they lose. Why? Usually it is because of just a few habitual mistakes...
There are so many different forms of Poker that no one could even count them all. And each of them would justify a book all by itself!
Generally speaking, you can divide all the more popular forms of Poker into four main types: Draw Poker, which to most American players means the game formerly known as Jackpots; Stud Poker, which usually means Five-Card Stud; its popular variation,...
High-low seven-card stud is regular Seven-Card Stud in which the high and low hands split the pot However, the same hand may win both ways, using different five-card combinations from the full seven cards. In most games, no declarations are required as to whether the player is trying for high or for low.
Of all the high-low games this is the most appealing and the most exciting. There are...
There is only one drawback to the pleasurable life of the movie actor or actress. They draw big salaries ; they get their names in the papers and are deluged with "fan" letters to such an extent that special postal departments are installed in their offices; the work is interesting and the hours comparatively short. But, alas, they have to have a lot of clothes.
To be sure, the buying of...
On the legitimate stage nearly every actor at one time or another writes a play. In the same way, in the movies nearly every actor tries his hand at scenario writing. In fact, many of the most successful playwrights and photodramatists have had stage or screen experience as actors. For this reason, although this series is designed more for those who wish to act than for those who wish to write...
"But they have no brains !" someone is sure to say. That sort of thing is rather cheap cynicism. As a matter of fact, they have plenty of brains, but of their own peculiar sort. A movie actor, like any other type of artist, is an emotional, temperamental crea- ture; but the problem which worries him the most is one of intellect rather than emotion; in short, just how to control the reactions...
This article does not deal so much with how to act in a picture as how to act in a studio. Motion picture people live, more or less, in a world of their own. It is a world which may seem a bit topsy turvy to the outsider, with its own peculiar customs, and a greater freedom from restraint than is customary in the conventional world outside. Examined a bit closer, these outlandish ideas appear...
Although most women use cosmetics in their everyday life, they are lamentably ignorant of the principles of make-up. For example, not one woman in a hundred knows that she should never rouge her face until she has put on her hat, since the shadow and line of the hat changes the whole color and composition of her face.
The average man's knowledge of the subject is limited to the use of...
Probably the number of people who have not at one time or another wondered in a sneaking sort of way if they wouldn't look pretty well on the screen is limited to the aborigines of Africa. Needless to say, both beauty and character are the characteristics in demand in the films, as everywhere else. The curious fact is that faces which in real life possess great beauty or deep character,...
