Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

“Merry-Go-Round” is finishe'd. After eight months’ steady work, Rupert Julian has finished the production of the Viennese story for which some of the most elaborate sets ever built at Universal City were used. One of the largest casts of wellknown players ever assembled for a single picture appear in it. Principal players in the all-star cast are Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Caesar Gravine, George Hackathorne, George Siegman, Dale Fuller, Lillian Sylvester, Spottiswoode Aitken, Dorothy Wallace, A1 Edmundson, Charles L. King, Penwick Oliver, Sidney Bracy, Anton Vavorka, Joseph Prichard and Maurice Talbot. Jack Sullivan, Julian’s assistant, is now working with Wallace Worsley on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” on which he and James Dugan are the assistants. * * * Gladys Walton’s current vehicle in production at Universal under King Maggot’s direction, “The Chicken That Came Home to Roost,” a Cosmopolitan magazine story published two months ago, is all about “the town scandal,” involving principal characters of the story. It’s a tale of chorus girl life, a small town and a few other common elements of life. * =k * Now Gibson’s own personal charac teristic will be exploited in a title for one of his pictures, “Heads Up!” written and directed by Edward Sedgwick and presenting the inimitable star in a human and lovable characterization, has been changed to “Single-Handed,” thought to be a much better title. It certainly describes the spirit of a Gibson performance. A DESIRABLE HOME We have the finest LIST of SELECTED HOMES in HOLLYWOOD. Won’t you let us show you just one of them? We will gladly CALL for you at any time, and you need not feel obligated to buy. Special attention to MOVIE PEOPLE. W. A. SNELGROVE. 6274 Hollywood Blvd. Phone 439-180. Lon Chaney is the star of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” In the supporting cast are Patsy Ruth Miller, Brandon Hurst, Ernest Torrance,. Eulalie Jensen, Jane Sherman, Gladys Johnstone, Raymond Hatton and others. * * * Neely Edwards’ current comedy starring vehicle at Universal City, where he has been making the “Nervy Ned” series with the support of Bert Roach, Gertrude Olmsted and otherSj is called “A Hard Boiled Yegg.” It is not a story of a Sunday school picnic or a convention of Coue fans. William Matson directs. * * * Bert Roach, who has been playing the tramp pal of Neely Edwafds in Universal comedies of “Nervy Ned” for a year, and who was withdrawn from that for a few weeks to play one of the principal roles in “The Flirt,” a Hobart Henley production of Booth Tarkington’s novel which is the photoplay surprise of the New York season, was so well liked by Henley that he will play an important part in the next feature Henley will direct. Roach’s work provides some of the illuminating humor in the film version of “The Flirt,” and his role in “Up the Ladder,” which will be started at Universal Ctiy in two weeks, will probably be similar in character. “Up the Ladder” will be a Universal-Jewel special co-starring Reginald Denny of “The Leather Pushers,” “The Kentucky Derby” and “The Abysmal Brute,” and Virginia Valli, the newest Universal star. USED FOTOPLAYER at a Bargain Price! Remarkable opportunity for motion picture theatre! 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But alas! his young dream was interrupted by the advent of a Republican by the name of Daniel Patrick Dugan. This rebellious son of an Hibernian family asserted his power and ideas for five months (his exact age). Then Jimmie Jr. turned Bolshevik overnight and hung out a danger signal. Daniel Patrick, sensing this, doubled up his chubby fists and stuck one into Jimmie’s right optic. Things were getting into a fearful state of rebellion when James Dugan, the father, and assistant director in the “Hunchback of Notre Dame,” sent his namesake to the tower (or it might have been the cellar) while he played Hottentot to Daniel Patrick’s Tod Sloan. From latest dispatches coming from the Dugan castle, the inference is that a temporary armistice has been affected between the warring factions. “Erin go braugh!” “Sitting” on a fellow for kissing you is a darn good idea, murmurs Lillian Rich. 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