Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

4 .... Flicker ings From Flicker land.... nice peppy operetta. It was good for “Merry Christmas.” Now we have May Robson in “Mother’s Millions.” A classic comedy in every sense of the word. Well worth seeing. PALAIS ROYALE— Hurrying waiters— gorgeous evening wraps — thin, gray columns of cigarette smoke — tall delicately wrought glasses with green and orange tints sparkling from their depths. Suddenly the music softens and the lights are lulled to sleep — all but one, in whose glow leaps a delicious dryad in batik — she enchants us with her unusual dancing — we all cry bravo — and, gayly laugh the lights awake again. CASINO — After we’ve been to all the blase places, we like this place to sort of relax. Try it. CINDERELLA ROOF — Jack and June Laughlin with their top-notch revue are making a hit in this “over our heads” dance hall. > COCOANUT GROVE— The elite are still playing high cover charges and dancing with shiny hips. The music is fine. Abe Lyman is responsible for this. WINTER GARDEN.. — Now that Grover Frankie is back what more can we ask? We are satisfied, you should be also. Toots Snyder and Genevie Hays are showing us how its done in the revue. A good atmosphere to flop into after a “hard” day’s work. Nice food. PLANTATION — Well, we planted our tootsies here the other night and had a nice time. Music is O. K. — it really doesn’t matter. Dandy place to go — if you have gas money and a mama. JAHNKES . — Down stairs — funny faces — young men smoking cigars — gaudy chorus girls pass out whistles — someone laughs — feels embarrassed — smirks — crash — orchestra scares lights away — tricky tootsie trotters dodge each other — more lights — more cigars — more jazz — ditto — floor gets crowded — glass empty — waiter appears — glaring lights — nightly revue — '(polite name for it) — checks please! CLUB ROYALE — Max Fisher and his gang of music makers will soon be gone and we will find them at Loew’s State for a long time. Earl Burtnett will take his place and pound out the tunes for shell-pink ears, assisted by Pete Hays and others. MARCELLS — Still clinging to the society crowds are serving a mighty good dinner. A sister to this famous place will open in Hollywood on January 17th, called the Mont Martre. Vincent Rose and Jackie Taylor will lead the jazz buzzers. WEISS & KLEIN..— Howdy gang! What did I tell you? Good Food? I hope to tell you again and again, that this is the ONLY place to flop on the real nose-bag a la reasonable price and table d’home-like. Think it over. TURKISH VILLAGE— Coffee that is thick, also smoke. A nice place to watch a young man explain the wonders of dim lights to his winter mama. ITALIAN VILLAGE — It opened with a bang and there are a lot of bangs left — and not on bobbed haired girls either. Lee Bergstrom and his flock of music-quakers are there to make you shiver on the hardwood. CALIFORNIA CAFE— Gus Haritos is your host! The food is great! A word to the wise — well, you know the rest. Hear the canaries sing! VERNON — Once in awhile we find some of our “elite” doing a slumming party and this is where they go. Might try it yourself sometime. You can at least have some good dances. No, they don’t serve. HOLLYWOOD STADIUM— Ah, we see Roy Marshall running around keeping the old place up to the standard with a flock of Xmas cigars in his mouth. Just so they don’t make him sick and cause him to put on a bum show. Here’s hoping. ENOUGH AGAIN — Now that most of our money is gone on our ramblings and presents, we find that we had a pretty good time hittin’ off the last two weeks. Must admit that they were busy weeks and full of bootleggers and stickers and cards, but everyone was happy and gay — • and really that’s what counts, doesn’t it? George Rigas, the Grecian actor now in American films, announces that he will launch his own producing unit some time within the first ninety days of the new year, adding that he will specialize in the picturizing of forgotten Grecian classics rewritten to date. Announcement Extraordinary! “The Ragtime Chocolate Girl” ETHEL BROADHURST suggests that you have your next LUNCHEON, DINNER or AFTERTHEATRE REFRESHMENTS at Browns Chocolate Shop 731 South Broadway, or 217 West 6th St., East of Broadway A Lady Always Appreciates a Box of “RAGTIME” Chocolates Manufactured by BROWN’S CANDY COMPANY ‘NOTHING BUT CONFERENCES’ George, the new Selznick office boy, has a lot to learn about the picture business, according to Victor Heerman, who is directing the all-star production of “Rupert of Hentzau.” The other day a man entered the offices of the company and asked to see Mr. Selznick. “Mr. Selznick is busy talking with Mr. Volck,” answered George. Heerman, who happened to be standing nearby, immeriately called the boy aside. “As long as you are in the motion picture business,” said Heerman, “never again say that one man is talking with another. It never happens. In the film industry we have nothing but conferences. If the director is arguing with his assistant, it’s a conference. If the casting director is doping out the fifth race with the studio manager, they are in conference; if the property man is rolling dice with the electrician, it’s a conference. Now go, my boy, and sin no more.”