Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

14 JUST Broadsides By ARGUS Making your way in the movies is usually a bore — you have to “work” in. * * * Indistinguishability is a big word for describing little Viola Dana, but she’s got it. * * * Ben Turpin says that there’s only two things the matter with a formal dinner and that is a stiff clean shirt and not enough to eat. * * * FASHION NOTE— The fall suits will not “fall” in price. * * * Wanda Hawley, after being back from San Francisco, says that anyway it was a change. Yeh, they have very small “change” up there. * * * Larry Semon says he works for a living. He does. ijc Victor Schertzinger, the well known Goldwyn director, has grown a moustache. Doesn’t that “tickle” you? * * * Q. T. means Bull Montana, “Quite Tough.” * * * Jack Cooper, the “funny man,” says in speaking of “heavies,” that “the heavier they are the harder they fall.” Quite true. * * * If you write to a girl in vacation, And she writes to you in vacation, Then what the Helvetia, Nova Scotia, Are you to do After vacation When she meets you and says, “I met the best looking fellow during vacation.” Wallace Beery went whistling down the street the other night and somebody threw an empty bottle at him. He says he’s gonna get a horn and go by again — he might get something in the next bottle. * * * The eternal triangle — “The Y. W. C. A.” * * Jk Thomas Meighan is doing “Easy Street”. — That’s one street that isn’t on the local map. Mr. Jack Dunn late of the legitimate stage has just divorced his partner, Miss Rosalie Hager. Before going into the movies. — Well he’s starting out -alright. * * * A young fellow named Dunn Of girls, he loved but one He soon married her She went with a sir. And now he says he’s well done. * * * Harry Van Meter is thinking of going on the stage. — Well, here’s hoping he stops thinking and continues in pictures. * * * Tom Moore’s next picture is to be, “Made in Heaven”. — Sounds like he’s dead or getting higher in stardom. * * * “Hoot” Gibson is working on “Marryin’ Marion”. — That’s easy. * * * Rex Ingram had a thirsty bunch of extras in his latest, “The Four Cow Boys.” They drank “wine” the first shot, and wanted more retakes. * * * Baseball Note — Babe Ruth is still running home. He should “run” for president. * * * ’Jes call me Cream of Wheat, I’m mushy. * * * Wesley Barry take notice — A good cure for freckles is to leave them alone. * * * Frances Marion and Finis Fox Have been remiss for days So I’ve found the reason why They’re busy writng plays. * * * John Sheehan of Fanchon and Marco, and James Liddy of Christie are old friends, Sheehan can’t get rid of Liddy since he was caught with “something” on his hip, I * * * “A movie solution of the movie unrest,” they have no standardized conversation, so they talk like Bugs Baer. * * * A philosopher nominated Chas. Chaplin for the Hall of Fame for being the only expert loafer. * * * A woman is as old as she looks, but a man is never old until he quits looking. * * * Hale Hamilton says everything is fine except the weather. DOROTHY MORGAN A Clever Ch id Actress The latest. — “Birds of all feathers flock on the new hats”. * * * “Girl will marry lover who shot her and himself.” — News item. Well, they might have met anyway if it had been fatal. * * * Milkshakes now with a little nutmeg. No thrill, boys. Oh, my kingdom for the ole keg. 'The hours or mis bank are exactly suited to your reauii'emenl’5'/ THERE are many a d v a n tageous reasons for having an account in the Heilman Bank — and not one reason why you should not Aside from the fact it is one of California’s largest and fastest growing institutions — it’s the only bank that has a service exactly suited to your requirements OPEN ALL NIGHT —ALL DAY SIXTH and MAIN* BRMKHa:vSSt Z PLEASE PATRONIZ E— W HO ADVERTIS E— I N CLOSE-UP