Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

6 With Comedians in Comedy Lane ALMOST THE RIGHT ENDING Not so many years ago Harold Bucquet left England to seek his fortunes in the new world. Crossing the Atlantic he made the acquaintance of Daisy Ashley, a beautiful young woman — a fellow passenger also in search of new world fortunes. Years fled and the couple neither saw nor knew just what befell the other. Success came to Bucquet in the picture game, where he is assistant to Director Allen Holubar, and has been on all that director’s big productions during the last four years. * And in the meantime — Miss Ashley settled in Canada where she, coincidentally, got into the exhibiting end of pictures. She plugged along until her merit was recognized and she became a well-known reviewer of pictures at Toronto. In the guise of cupid a First National publicity writer quite innocently furnished Miss Ashley with the information that Bucquet was working on the production of “Hurricane’s Gal,” starring Dorothy Phillips. And then a dainty, scented letter came to Harry asking if he were not the young man she met in mid-ocean. And then Harry hurriedly penned her a note saying: “Yes, I’m the man. Have been married almost two years and am the father of a chi-e-l-d. Am happy.” It was a plain case of cupid getting behind his schedule. This story ought to end with Harry and Daisy taking honeymoon passage back to merry England, but — curses — it can’t. California is full of bigamy laws. P. S. — Miss Ashley didn’t propose in the letter and she may be married already for all this writer knows. But, anyway, it’s nearromance. Sam Wood, on his arrival from New York, will proceed with his work on his next production, “The Impossible Mrs. Bellew.” Gloria Swanson will arrive about June 7th and is to star in this picture. While in New York Mr. Wood obtained some splendid scenes, including shipping, street and other views. David Lisle wrote this story which Percy Heath adapted. MORE IMPRESSIONS (Carey Wilson, associate editor of the Goldwyn scenario department, recently wrote a series of impressions of famous film folk which were published in newspapers all over the country. Here are a few more.) PAT O’MALLEY— Penrod with a grown-up soul. MAE BUSCH— Coles Phillips and John Held collaborating on the portrait of a vampire. NORMAN KERRY— The nightmare dreamed of by most any hardworking husband. AGNES AYRES — A white marble villa overlooking the Italian lake Como — a ’cello throbs with Tchaikowsky. PAUL BERN — Hamlet lost in Gopher Prairie. BEBE DANIELS — Vivid carmine lip rouge in a green-gold jar. MABEL NORMAND— Peter Pan in Tiffany’s. MAURICE TOURNEUR— An artistic Columbus proving that the screen world is not flat: MAY McAVOY — June sunshine casts the shadow of a Tanagra statuette on the cover of “Town and Country.” ERNEST TORRANCE — Mephistopheles in riding boots grinning at human happiness. BESSIE LOVE — A blue gingham sunbonnet in a bed of panies. RALPH BLOCK — “John Storm” preaching Bolshevism from a soapbox in the shadow of the First National Bank. MARIE PREVOST — A composite of all the late Raphael Kirchner’s drawings in the lobby of the Century Theatre, New York. LON CHANEY— The “tyronnosaurus” of screen acting. (See Wells’ C. of H.) ELINOR GLYN — A matinee whirligig in which may be discerned flashes of Paquin, a Ritz menu, a suffragist Eve, jade amulets, and the fourteen foremost business principles of success as laid down by the Standard Oil Co. Director Victor Heerman has completed the script of the original story which will be Owen Moore’s next Selznick vehicle. CAUSE FOR THOUGHT ETHEL BROADHURST A Screenland Favorite Remembers that she is without her favorite Chocolates and makes up her mind to call at 621 South Olive Street for another box of RAGTIME CHOCOLATES Distributed by C. C. BROWN CO. 621 South Olive St. Telephone Broadway 1610 BARTINE BURKETT Ingenue in Comedies An enormous temple ruins has been constructed for the Pathe serial, “The Riddle of the Range,” in which Ruth Roland is starred. PLEASE PATRONIZ E— W HO ADVERTIS E— I N “CLOSE-UP”