Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

13 Hand-Outs Along the Rialto LYNWOOD CRYSTAL RAPP Child Actress CLAUDE GILLINGWATER Claude Gillingwater, who is portraying “Virgil Adams,” Florence Vidor’s father in her latest starring vehicle, “Alice Adams,” that captured the Pulitzer prize for 1921 as the best American novel, enacted this week some of the most dramatic scenes in the script. His work drew the strongest praise from Rowland V. Lee, director, who exclaimed : “There’s your actor who spent his life on the stage!” Mr. Gillingwater has spent thirty years before the footlights. Although he has only been on the Coast a year, he has appeared in some of the most important pictures of the year. His first appearance was with Mary Pickford as the “Earl of Dorincourt” in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and a recent release was “Remembrance” in which he was featured. Gladys Walton is fortunate in “The Madonna of Avenue A,” in which she is being directed by King Baggot. The story is, of course told in New York and the east side thereof, but it moves to the country for a breath of clean air and a flash of sunshine at the finish. It is a type of role which Miss Walton plays well. * * * One gets hot all over when he thinks about the coal situation. This is one way to keep warm says Dale Fuller. ^ ifc % Reginald Barker’s advice. There should be more golf schools in Los Angeles. Hardly anyone who is on the links know how to play. AMBASSADOR RICHARD WALTON TULLY The artistic world has its ambassadors no less than the world of diplomacy. Our latest plenipotentiary is Richard Walton Tully, America’s foremost playwright and producer. He has just sailed for a characteristically American flying trip across the Atlantic, during which he will supervise the stage presentation of “The Masquerader” at the Duke of York Theatre in London and also the premier presentation of Guy Bates Post in the film version, distributed abroad as here, through Associated First National Pictures. From London, Tully will proceed to Paris, to put on at the Odeon Theatre the first French production of “The Bird of Paradise” and to complete f'nal negotiations for the French bookings of his films. While in Paris, Tully will also take motion pictures of a number of atmospheric scenes in the Latin Quarter for his next production, “Trilby,” in which Guy Bates Post will again be the star. The list of art ambassadors between Europe and America includes many justly celebrated names. Duse, Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Forbes Robertson, Thomas so Salvini and his son Alessandro, Chaliapin, Baleieff, and Henry Irving and Henry Miller. These brought Europe’s message of artistry. Our own ambassadors of inspiration have included Ada Rehan and Laurette Taylor, actresses; Maud Powell, violin virtuoso; E. A. MacDowell, composer; Poe, Longfellow, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, all of whom were first recognized abroad; Augustus Thomas, playwright, and Jacob Epstein, sculptor. A great company — and Richard Walton Tully comes as a fitting companion in the ranks. Eddie Gribbon does some splendid comedy work in “Captain Fly-byNight, ” Johnnie Walker’s first starring vehicle for F. B. O. Gribbon has the faculty of looking askew in one eye while the other retains it’s normal position. In the role of the blustering Mexican sergeant, when he goes into a tirade, he uses one eye to watch the door while the other is directed at Walker, located dircetly in front of him. Gribbon’s comedy work is a great factor in carrying forward the plot of the story. HIS ICE SKATING USELESS Here’s a man with a real grievance. Carl Harbaugh, in “Passions of the Sea,” went to Tahiti with a lot of athletes, including Antonio Moreno, handball and wrestling enthusiast; R. A. Walsh, director and swimming champ, and William Haines, who swings a racquet with tournament accuracy. The others “show their stuff,” and Carl can’t do a thing, because his prize accomplishment is — ice skating! He won several cups for it while in college back East. “But if I’d known I was going to spend my time in the tropics, I’d have taken up roller skating instead!” says Carl. Ward Hayes, formerly associated with Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin and recently as director .for Ben Wilson, has been added to the staff of Popular Pictures, Inc., where he will act as “gag” man for comedies starring Hilliard (Fatty) Karr and Frankie Lee. THE FINEST Is none too good! And the BEST People Know the good quality of “Ragtime” Chocolates Ethel Broadhurst Is a Keen Judge And She Eats Them. C. C. BROWN CANDY CO. Los Angeles California 621 South Olive Street ’Phone Broadway 1610