Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

10 2 y Under tin BY THE M A N EXPLANATIONS UNNECESSARY (The letter speaks for itself. — Editor.) East Bound, Dear Mr. Lorimer: June 12. When I goes to buy my ticket from Chicago to New York the man tells me I should reserve on the TWENTIETH CENTURY, bein’ it was the first train out an’ the fastest. I had just been gazin’ at my reflection, thinkin’ how nice I looked and everythin’ when he should come along with a remark like that and take all the conceit right out o’ me. I thinks, mebbe as how he thinks I am a “Hold-up Moll” and wants to get me outa his home town and the sooner the quicker. I ain’t got nothin’ particular to hurry for though. He did say the scenery on this line out, specially the Hudson River, was awful pretty as we passes along there at night, I’ll be darned if I sets up to see any old river. I gotta have m.y beauty sleep. You notice I said “beauty”? I always try to remember what maw says about bein’ polite so I answers back, it would afford me a great deal of pleasure to ride on such an elegant train, at which, havin’ got that off my chest, I felt real swell and turns around to the guy in back o’ me and gives him the haughtiest look you ever did see, and its dollars to doughnuts he is still tryin’ to figure out if I am an Astorbilt travelin’ in disguise or a Movie Queen in cog. I hope I ain’t misused that word but from what I understands about Movie Queens, you can use most any old word without givin’ offense or gettin’ arrested. I counts out the money — knowin’ aforehand just how much it took — and then he says, “9.60 please,” just as if he was askin’ about my health or somethin’. Right then was my chancet to stage a faint that would have been a knock-out, but I remembers my haughty look, so I hands over the ten. I couldn’t keep my hand from shakin’ a little and, of course, the man in back had to see it. But I didn’t mind that so much because he would just about contribute that to late hours and sigarrettes. I went away from that window, but there never was nor will be, a March hare as mad as me this month of June. Here I was, havin’ spent money on a magazine that told all about swindle cases and thinkin’ I’m pretty wise, and then bein’ separated from ten right off the bat, and me expectin’ to spend that ten down to Coney Island, lookin’ forward to a double ride on everythin’. It was a nice train alright, and when I sees the maid cornin’ down the aisle — knowin’ she was a maid on account of her havin’ a dress like they has in the movies — I thinks how lucky some people is to be able to take a maid along, rememberin’ what the trip cost me in the way of skimpin’, usin’ condensed cream and doin’ without dessert most every meal, but I soon finds out my mistake when she hands the lady in front of me a bag for her hat, includin’ with it a four-bit smile. When she gets around to me I was lookin’ out the window and she just stands there until I gotta look up. “A bag to put your hat in ma’am,” as if I didn’t have sense enough to know what it was for, and me with my last year's hat on, not carin’ whether it gets dirty or not. Then they have a shower bath for men. That ain’t no accommodation for me since I left mine at home. Chances are, likely as not he wouldn’t have taken it anyway. But if you happen to have an extra sawbuck and lookin’ for a boot-legger, don’t do it. Instead, take this train, for I am just after tellin’ you that if you do spend $9.60, look at all you gets free of charge. Y ours truly, ELSIE EVA STEELE (The “Sub”). ng Glass BEHIND ‘CLOSE-UP’ KEEPING HIS WORD Irving Cummings will positively set sail on an eastbound limited this week with the negative of “Broken Hearts of Broadway,” his latest heart throb drama of metropolitan life in his suitcase. Since the completion of the picture which stars Colleen Moore and Johnnie Walker, with a stellar supporting cast including Alice Lake, Tully Marshall, Kate Price, Arthur Stewart Hull, Freeman Wood and Anthony Merlo, he has several offers from well known distributors who saw it in pre-view. Cummings, however, gave his word not to dispose of “Broken Hearts of Broadway” on the coast before showing it to certain eastern film magnets, and he is sticking to his promise. A WORTHY SCHEDULE When Max Graf, supervising director of the Graf Production, starts production in the late summer of his original “The Soul Thief,” it will mark the anniversary of his second year as producer, his brother Louis and himself having formed the Graf Productions just two years ago this coming September. The output of pictures has been most significant, including “White Hands” with Hobart Bosworth, “Bondage of Souls” with allstar cast, “The Forgotten Law” with Milton Sills, Jack Mulhall and Alec B. Francis and his latest super special for Metro, “The Fog.” “The Grain of Dust,” from the novel of David Graham Phillips, will shortly go under production at the San Mateo Studios and will be another super special. Ora Carewe is one of those actresses that grows on one just the same as some brands we have become acquainted with that get better with age. Miss Carewe “arrived" a long time ago as far as stardom in pictures, then she seeemd to drop out of the game for a brief spell., and she no more than set foot on California soil than she was immediately signed to appear in a big feature. Henry Hebert has signed with Goldwyn for District Attorney Jackson in “The Day of Faith,” a Tod Browning production.