Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

16 b * £0 * * o Bright Hints For Human Beings By “US” or “WE” A. ALPERSTEIN COMES TO WARNER STUDIOS Activities at the Warner Bros, studios have reached the stage where it becomes necessary to relieve Jack and Sam Warner of much of their production duties with the result that the new Warner studios are to be placed under a general manager. A. Alperstein, pioneer motion picture executive, is the man chosen for the important position. He is due at the studios from New York this week and will commence h's duties at once. The New York office of the Warner Bros, is cared for by A. and H. M. Warner while J. L. and S. L. are permanently located in Hollywood. H. M. Warner has been at the studios for several weeks and will remain for another month or so until every detail for the coming classics of the screen has received action. Duties of Alperstein will include, the laboratory supervision with which lie has been identified for .many years. During his picture career, he has been a producer, distributor, exhib'tor and laboratory executive. At one time ne was head of a national advertising syndicate of much importance. Ben Alexander’s press agent says that the child actor learned to act al ■ most before he learned to eat. That word “almost" came in handy didr.’t it? * * * Hunt Stromberg, who produces, and often personally directs the “Bull'' Montana comedies for Metro, is the youngest producer in motion pictures * * * Jane Sherman informs us that girls are net called gold-diggers any more, that they are enttled, “silver-siren.” Quite a good name at that. % * 5fc Edna Murphy is starring in “What Should a Girl Do?” They will proV afcly have a lot cf gag men on this picture. Joe Engler is witty. * * * Vera Alden, actress, tries to ride a bicycle and is injured. Probably the th'ng was “tired” and just fell over. * * * This travelogue by Edith Johnson, who has a gold-fish that’s been around the globe three times in an hour. Th s sounds worldly. * 5 fi % Rollie Asher wants to know if you have to be a juggler to balance books. TO START SOON Q Edward F. Cline, who just completed for Principal P ctures, “The Meanest Man in the World," and who also directed Jackie Coogan in his forthcoming comedy “Circus Days," adapted from "Toby Tyler,” will have charge of directing "When a Man’s a Man." Florence Vidor and John Bower will enact the prncipal roles. Allen Holubar is preparing to “shoot” scenes for his first production under the Metro banner and he will begin casting some time this week. He has purchased "East of Suez." the sensational New' York stage success, which will be filmed as his second Metro release. The famous producer-director has been assigned Joseph Schenck’s old office in the new Metro administration building of that concern's Hollywood studios. * * * Someone said that man descended from a fish. If that is the case we can now account for the bus ness sharks and the whale of a liar. This from T. D. Moreno. * * * Gordon Hollingshead asserts that those who fall in love on the front steps might call it a stair-case. * . * * Mack Sennctt reveals how to furnish a vamp’s home. Well, HE ough. to knew if any one does. ijc J$I !$C Notice to Newspapers: How about a Caarley Chaplin-Pola Negri headline ? * * * Helen Grant, film actress, wants to go on the stage. She’s a blonde, so this is a light-headed inquiry. * * * Jacques Jaccard informs us that tacks were first discovered at night in a bedroom. They say money talks, but William Duncan says it has lost its voice in Germany. * * * INGRAHAM AS TRAP DRUMMER Lloyd Ingraham, one of the screen artists in Scaramouch, Rex Ingram s newest Metro production, was the trap drummer n the Robert Buchanan repertoire company at 15 and the leading man at 19. WOODSMEN WASHED UP Back to the Woods,” the Christie corned} which was filmed in the main near Mount Lassen in Northern California, has been completed under Scott Sidney’s direction, and is scheduled for release in June. This comedy, preceded by "Plumb Crazy.” will complete a year’s series of pictures, twenty in all. Neal Burns is starred in "Back to '.he Woods,” while Bobby Vernon is the comedy star in “Plumb Crazy.” TEN YEARS AGO? Peggy O’Day was taking piano lessons in hope of some day becoming a female Paderewski. Niles Welch was studying law at Columbia and breaking records in the track team. Wm. P. S. Earle was trying to figure how he could talk J. Stuart Blackton into letting him direct a tworeel picture. Bertram Thomas Grassby was playing before the footlights with Bertha Kalich. Edward J. Montague was editing the Brooklyn Weekly Dispatch and writing scenarios on the side. Now look at them. Estelle Taylor claims that film players owe all to the producer. BROWN ^ CALDWELL s4ND LADD PKo t o -ei\d r aVe r\s 2.4 Y S. BDWY, LOS ANGELES O O