Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

9 On Strips of Celluloid PERT POINTS Bemie Durning pulled this one the other day: Hick — “You know these city guy’s think I’m a rube, but I fooled one the other day.” City Guy — “How come?” Hick — “Well, one of them tried to sell me the post office, but I wouldn’t buy it because I knew it belonged to the city.” * * * Arthur Bernstein states, “That the money wasted exchanging 15 gun salutes between ranking officers of navy, could be utilized for feeding 9,000,000 poor people three times a day for nine months.” * * * The following appeared in the Times last Sunday: “Christ wants to take the World to Heaven; the Devil wants to take it to Hell. Where do you want to take it?” As a Reader once in awhile, we answer thusly: I’ll take it bit by bit to my bedroom. * * * Speaking of Cubist art, as many are, E. Mason Hopper claims to be one of the first to advocate that school. As evidence he quotes a composition of his written at the age of five: “A horse is a queer animal. It has four legs — one on each corner.” * * * Marguerite De La Motte, J. L. Frothingham star, is “on location” in sonora with the Thomas H. Ince Company. Upon completion of this production, the dainty little artiste will make another picture for Mr. Inc, the title of which has not as yet been announced. * * * Frank Hayes doesn’t like California’s “bracing” weather. His costume for the last few days consisted wholly of a bathing suit wrapped around with branches, which he wears for the comic-character role of “Wildfire,” Benj. B. Hampton’s latest adaptation of a Zane Grey novel. * * * A western thriller by Norman Taurog: “Monty Ray is dead.” “How come?” “The director said ‘shoot.’ ” “Well?” “And they did.” TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY— THAT IS THE WAY ETHEL TAKES IT “I hate the inside of a house after I’ve been in it a good while,” we were informed by Ethel Broadhurst. “I want to be outdoors as much as possible and I think mighty little of a man who isn’t a real man physically — and absolutely unafraid of exercise.” Since we have indulged in all outdoor sports from corn plowing to hoboing, we knew that could not be intended for us. And we also knew from previous experience that an outburst like this from our friend of the Vanity Maids (Hal Roach’s flock) presaged a revelation about a personal experience. “I had a flat tire yesterday when I was away out in the hills, and I was doing my best, all by myself, to change it, when a closed car came by and a man got out. I thought for a moment that he was going to help me — but oh, boy! you should have seen those gloves that he did NOT take off. After he had offered to take me into town and leave my poor car standing there in the middle of the road and had declined to soil himself by touching the tire — well, he just drove away.” Ethel told us all this in one breath, and at our query as to the moral of it, she went on: “He said he’d catch a cold if he perspired. Say — he’d have TURNED cold if I had told him what I thought of him.” Allen Holubar has commenced production at United studios on “The Soul Seeker,” starring Dorothy Phillips. 0 * * * Artful women arrange their hair artlessly. This from Maurice B. Flynn. Sell Their Leases and Retire from Business Entire Stocks at Both Stores Now Selling at Sacrifice Prices 414 429 So. Spring St. Stowell Hotel Bldg. W. Seventh St. L. A. Athletic Club Bldg. A CRYING SHAME Three things will make an actress cry for the camera — sad music, glycerine and a strong onion. But Constance Talmadge, whose crying is so sympathetic that handkerchief manufacturers increase their plant capacities when Connie has a picture with tears in it, says she can do without them and have no difficulty in feeling sad and shedding many, many tears. “Just think of the high cost of foodstuffs,” she said to her director a few days ago. “You know, every time 1 fix my mind on the grocery bill and the price of tenderloin steak, I can cry without any effort.” “All of which,” said Sidney Franklin, the hard working master of the megaphone, “is more truth than poetry.” BROWN CALDWELL ND LADD ?h0T\ 63551 PKoto*ei\draVe rvs 2.-4 "J 5. BDWY; LOS ANGELES PLEASE PATRONIZ E— W HO ADVERTIS E— I N “CLOSE-UP”