Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

15 piniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinfliMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiMilEiiiiiiiiiiw ONALITI iflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllli!ll!lllll!lllllllllltnilllllllllilllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllll!!llllllllllllllllin f A Star Shooting By Doris Mortlock V It was raining. Two figures scurried down the steps from Theodore Robert’s garden and disappeared into the night. Another figure loomed up with a star cn his chest. He passed them without a word. Then he scurried up the steps into Theodore Robert’s garden and sped around to the back of the house. There was a cellar door. And there was a light over the cellar doer . I wonder * * * Bartine Burkett has done it. We were all there to see her walk out of church on the arm of a happy young man. They were leaving the usual Sunday morning service. 5(C * * Despair is reigning supreme in the hearts of the blondes. They have a rival. Dorothy Dalton has become a blonde. She wears a wig. It’s for her next picture. * * * The other day a very down at heel individual drifted into a meat market and gravely considered the d’splay of poultry. The butcher gave him a broad hint that this was no place for tramps. The tramp raised his eyes. It was Ben Turpin. * * A certain leading man was seen rocking in a very small rocking chair in front of a second-hand store. The whole family grouped around while said leading man discussed the pros and ccns of purchasing this little rocking chair. Evidently a family event was about to occur. Was it Jack Cooper? Lois Wilson had a scene in which she was supposed to shoot an arrow into Dan Cupid’s heart. Mr. George Melford did it for her. * * * Attention! men who wear jewelry — such as .enamel rings and bracelets! Here is a new trick of showing off your jewelry in the most nonchalant manner to the general public: First, you must make up your mind to enter a public market and part with five cents to buy two heads of lettuce. Then after making sure that everyone’s eyes are on you, you shake up your cuff so that your bracelet may be seen and minutely pick over every lettuce in the box, taking great care to expose your best finger and your best ring. Finally, of course, you must take the two lettuces the Jap offered you in the beginning. Then you give another careless unseeing look at your spectators, gracefully shake the water from your hands, draw out your yellow silk handkerchief, throw down a nickel and saunter away forgetting those tiresome lettuces if need be. You think it sounds silly? Well, Rudolph Valentino does it. HORSE SENSE FROM RALPH WINSOR How do the people of the motion picture profession ever expect a return to better conditions when they (themselves) go around among their friends in the business and mourn conditions? Why they talk as though the business has gone to the dogs. Holler about “no work for them” and curse the unfortunates who show considerate interest in their arfairs. TALKING. THINKING and FEELING better things will help to remedy conditions by displaying an ignorance of anything wrong in the picture game, and would tend to create more optimism it seems to me. But then I‘m not a temperamental artist, but just a plain writer using a' little horse sense. Anthony McCarthy says “That hose are nearest fires.” What a blazing line? * * * The title of Buster Keaton’s latest comedy is “My Wife’s Relations.” MOVIES HAVE SMALLEST POLICE RECORD Movie Industry Cleanest in the United States A member of the A. S. C. recently pointed out to a wondering public that the motion picture industry had no police record. Since that time the Arbuckle (?) and the Taylor cases have blemished the record, but in eight years, says the A. S. C., he has neither witnessed nor heard of any crime in the West Coast studios. He declares that lie has never heard of a case of riot, burglary, assault, murder, embezzlement, labor violence, or anything more serious than a quarrel betwen an actor and his wife, and that in eight years’ intimate association with the business staffs, actor bodies and working people of seven studios, he has never seen an arrest, a woman insulted or a disgraceful happening on the lot. Another A. S. C. estimates that during the eight years of his experience in pictures he has been in close association with forty thousand picture workers of all classes, and the worst he has seen in the way of disorder was one fist fight. He adds that the police blotters show practically no offenders from the studios, except for speeding, and few of these. These men claim for the motion picture industry a cleaner record than any other industry, profession or business in the United States, and they call upon the world to successfully challenged this statement. Ask the police. They keep the records. Also divorces have been fewer in proportion. Ask the court clerks. They keep the records. The greatest injustice has been done the movies by reporters bulletining as “movies stars” folk who get into trouble. Any extra girl or man who happens to get arrested at once becomes a “film favorite” or a star simply because the reporter knows such a statement will add to the interest of his story. Against this practice the whole industry protests.— Reprinted from The American Cinematographer. PLEASE PATRONIZ E— W HO ADVERTIS E— I N “CLOSE-UP”