Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

12 JUST BETWEEN OURSELVE “CLOSE-UP” Marshall Lorimer Editor and Prop. 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. H SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ONE YEAR TWO DOLLARS | Advertising Rates on Contract Basis H Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” H All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor g THINGS SENNETT DOESN’T FILM STUDIO HINTS FROM THOS. H. INCE Dick Jones switching from cigarettes to big black cigars. Roy Del Ruth, as his own chauffeur, mechanic and washer. Phyllis Haver accepting the congratulations being offered her. Billy Bevan and Fred Jackman buying ducks after hunting them for three days. John Grey corraling his pals for “a last good night.” Miss Mabel Normand writing her friends how she misses them and longs for California, but hates to leave slow New York. GASTON GLASS IS NOT BROKE! Evidence of the prosperity of a successful screen actor is never conspicuous by its absence. Most all of the members of this profession are good spenders. For instance, Gaston Glass, idol of legions of fanettes throughout the world, finds his fine motor car is no longer all-satisfying, so he is buying an expensive two-passenger aeroplane, which he plans on using solely for recreation. Incidentally, he buys some real estate in Southern California every month or so. Non-breakable Glass, eh? George Bronson Howard, like sir Art C. Doyle, hates to hear of the death of a bright young detective. Howard animated the character of “Yorke Norrey,” a clever sleuth and told about him on reams and reams of the finest magazine paper. With Howard’s arrival at Universal City, as a staff writer, he dug up “Yorke Norrey,” and is now writing him into a new series of fascinating mysteries. Roy Stewart, the vigorous star of “The Radio King” and other productions, is starring in the role. A big drama of modern day American life will be the next feature production of Thomas PI. Ince. Production work on the story, which has been in preparation for several months, has just started at the Ince Studios. John Griffith Wray, who directed “Hail the Woman,” “Lying Lips” and many other Ince productions, including two specials, “Ten Ton Love” and “What a Wife Learned,” soon to be released, is megaphoning the picture. May McAvoy, who scored such a success in “Sentimental Tommy,” heads an all-star cast. * * * The important matter of shopping for wedding presents tempararily has delayed production work on the next big feature picture to be filmed at the Thomas H. Ince Studios. Ince has bought four wedding presents in the past two weeks. All four of the girls who chose October weddings have been connected for some time with the studio; the auditor’s department, general manager’s department, publicity department and telephone bureau each contributing a bride. They are the Misses Peggy Perkins, Winifred Wright, Hazel Leonard and Ruth Sweeney. At the present rate it will take just six months to marry off the entire feminine force of the Ince Studios. * * * Madge Bellamy, Thomas H. Ince star, who was loaned to play with Lloyd Hughes, under direction of Tom Forman in a new Schulberg picture, “Are You a Failure?” returned to the Ince Studios this week. A young flapper was playing the piano when some chap said that it was a keen baby grand. We don’t know whether he meant the girl or the piano. Harry Garson wants to know. THE “SUZANNA” HAT I. J. Schlansky, representative of the firm of Ike Stern, manufacturing milliners in New York, visited at the Mack Sennett studios while in Los Angeles on a trip across the country. He brought with him a few samples of a new sports hat which the Stern Company are manufacturing and selling under the name of “Suzanna” hats. They are made in various shades of soft velour, are very attractive and strikingly Spanish in design and appearance. Arrangements are being made with the retail department stores over the country to withhold the sale of the “Suzanna” hat until the release of the latest Sennett production by that name, in which Mabel Normand is the star. Marguerite Clayton makes her first appearance in a California-made production, “Canyon of the Fools,” Harry Carey’s fourth Western play for F. B. O, release, which is in production at the P. A. Powers studios. Surrounding Mr. Carey and Miss Clayton in this play is a cast of exceptional qualifications for the interpretation of roles. Carmen Arselle, as Mignoone, famous cow-girl of the screen, who has been seen in former Carey productions, is assigned a role replete with horsemanship. Others are Fred Stanton, Murdock MacQuarrie, Vester Pegg, Charles J. LeMoyne, Joseph Harris and Jack Curtis VIN MOORE A Comedy Director of Note