Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

12 JUST BETWEEN GURSELVE Marshall Lorimer Editor and Prop “CLOSE-UP” i e v* v v The Magazine of Movie Land Issued the 5th and 20th of Each Month Editorial and Business Office: 603 Western Mutual Life Bldg., (formerly Exchange Bldg.) 321 West Third Street. Telephone 820-609. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ONE YEAR TWO DOLLARS Advertising Rates on Contract Basis Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor FIRST NATIONAL NOTES THE LAST WORD (“From Paris”) Maurice Tourneur will make four big productions during the coming year, which will be presented by M. C. Levee through First National. The first will be a picturization of Crittenden Marriott’s “The Isle of Dead Ships.” The production will be filmed on a lavish scale at the United Studios and on the kelp beds near San Juan Capistrano. Production statts in two weeks. * * * Katherine MacDonald and her supporting company, including Orville Caldwell, Stuart Holmes, Lincoln Stedman, Adele Farrington, Edith Lyle, Russell Gordon and Grace Morse, have returned from Arrowhead Lake, where important scenes were filmed by Director Victor Schertzinger for “The Scarlet Lily.” * * * M. C. Levee announced that Allen Holubar’s next production will be a picturization of Jeffry de Prend’s “The White Frontier.” Mr. Holubar is now en route to Montreal to choose locations. Production will start at the United Studio in about three weeks. Dorothy Phillips will have the stellar role. * * * Thomas H. Ince is giving all his energies to the cutting and editing of “A Man of Action,” the adroit comedy from the pen of Bradley King and featuring Douglas MacLean, Marguerite de la Motte and Raymond Hatton. This production, which was directed by James Horne, will follow "The Hottentot,” another uproarious Ince comedy, on the First National releasing schedule. * * * Oliver Morosco Productions announce they have secured Avery Hopwood, well-known playwright and author of a dozen Broadway successes, to write the titles for “Slippy McGee,” their second production for First National release, featuring Colleen Moore and Wheeler Oakman. * * * When a man of 40 wants one special woman urgently enough to crash his automobile into a going train, slip out of the wreckage and board the train with no thought but triumph at having caught the quickest conveyance to her! — We officially pronounce that love. It’s in “The Dangerous Age,” a John M. Stahl photoplay with the — to some — startling suggestion that 40 is two times as dangerous as 20. AND THE COAT CAME BACK! Nine years ago Hobart Bosworth sold some of his old theatrical wardrobe to a small Los Angeles costume establishment. Q O Shortly after arriving at the Goldwyn studios from San Francisco to play in Marshall Neilan’s “The Strangers’ Banquet,” Mr. Bosworth hied himself to the same costume house, which had grown into the largest establishment of its kind in the country. The star described the kind of outfit he required for the Neilan characterization. A bundle of clothes was deposited on the counter before him and there on the top of the heap was a garment that looked exceedingly familiar. Yes — it was the coat Mr. Bosworth had sold to them nine years ago, a bit frayed and worn, hut still recognizable as the same old coat. “I knew that coat when it was just a little vest,” said Bosworth facetiously— and the man who had collected many a dollar’s rental on the coat wondered what he meant. Ruth Roland is cn the fifth week of “Ruth’s Millions.” This sounds like a fairy story. The above may not mean anything to you — just now, but I am sure that it will when you finish this article. “The Last Word" is a darling little shop at 5648 Hollywood boulevard, where one may have the latest thing in gowns from Paris, or any of the great many things that help make the fairer sex most charming. Una Trevelyn, who as an actress achieved high honors, and Elsie Southern, also an actress with many wellremembered roles to her credit, have formed a partnership in creating this dainty palace where Dame Fashion reigns. If you, dear reader, are a member of the feminine sex, I suggest that you — if you want to be Minutely Modish — try these two versatile young ladies, and I am sure they will more than please. VIOLA DANA CURIOUS Harry Beaumont, director for Viola Dana, and John Arnold, cameraman, have left for Northern California on a hunt for locations to be used in the filming of Miss Dana’s next Metro starring picture. Miss Dana was at the studio -on the day they departed and remarked that “locations” must be queer animals, else why did Mr. Beaumont and Mr. Arnold load shotguns and fishing rods into their automobile along with their other luggage. HELENE LYNCH Ingenue Lead