Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)
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SCREENING WHERE THE SCREENING’S GOOD
Broadsides
By ARGUS
There is a new burlesque on “Down to the Sea in Ships” entitled “Up to the Sky in Shirts.” This by Lige Conley.
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A1 Herman is directing “The Lead Pipe Cinch.” This ought to be a “knockout.”
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Mankind is all o. k. but womankind, is something unusual, if you know what I mean. Rupert Julian sprung this one.
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Henry Bergman says he doesn’t want any kind of a write up, so we re not giving him any.’ What!
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Wally Davidson is now known as “The Poser of Hollywood.” He is the only male member of the film colony affecting his own original ideas in walking gestures.
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Lillian Rich caught a 190 bass recently while on her vacation after finishing “The Phantom Pack,” a Strongheart picture.
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Richard Mansfield said “that a girl must walk well if she wanted to be a screen actress.” Well, the studios are quite a distance apart, so some of them must be pretty good by now, remarks William Duncan.
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C. L. Theuerkauf is at it again.
“Does that guy know anything?”
“Sure. He knows he’s a fool.”
Buck Jones is making “SecondHand Love.” How about hocking some kisses from Cupid’s pawn shop? * * *
Jacques Jaccard is directing “The Power of Darkness.” Can’t say that this should’ be treated “lightly.”
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Vin Moore does another ditty.
“I’m going hunting.”
“What for?”
“A pool hall.”
“All right, I’ll ‘shoot’ you a game.” * * *
R. Wdlt is preparing “Wild Oranges.” Well, this picture can’t be a “lemon:”
Monte Banks is making “A Concrete Mixup.” This should cement ingredients into a good story, suggests Gertrude Astor.
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Some people have nothing to talk about, so they usually tell you all about it anyway. Gladys Brockwell does another truth article.
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Now that the great Sarah Bernhardt has passed on, everyone is telling what she said about them and their greatness. It is truly remarkable the number of people she personally knew.
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Shirley Mason says men used to drink champagne from a girl’s slipper, but now they drink water from pumps.
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Director Frank Lloyd is working day and night in the cutting room on Norma Talmadge’s greatest picture, “Ashes of Vengeance.”
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“Thundergate” is interpreted by an all-star cast including Owen Moore, Sylvia Breamer, Tully Marshall, Virginia Brown Faire and others at United.
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Virginia Fox recently gave a box party at the Motion Picture Exposition for a few of her friends.
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Handball is becoming a popular pastime in Hollywood. So is passing the buck. H. L. Fitzpatrick tells us this one.
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New cutting room at Warner Bros, cost $25,000. Seems as tho’ they could have “cut” this a little.
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Neva Gerber tells us something.
Some women are very generous. They’ll give you a mean look most any time.
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News item says that popular villian is busy. Who ever heard of a popular villain? inquires Robert McKim.
People don’t speak of their married life any more, its always their married strife.
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Charles Gerrard, who is playing the part of Sir Peter Dare in Constance Talmadge’s latest comedy-drama, “The Dangerous Maid,” was iniported from New York for the part.
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Howard Strickling, Metro press agent, recently refused an offer to pose 'for Staycomb ads.
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Reginald Barber found a girl so dumb that she thought a taxi meter would help the driver to write poetry. * * * ,
Eddie Polo’s latest twister.
The way of a man with a maid had nothing to do with the way of a man.
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James Cruze is directing “Ruggles of Red Gap.” No, dear readers, Wesley Ruggles has nothing to do with this.
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Edith Johnson does a clever one.
Some girls talk of nothing but wearing apparel.
Might call this a “clothes line.”
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Lloyd Hamilton has a good one for this week.
One girl told me that she was barely able to go out, and after one look, I knew she told the truth.
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Neely Edwards is making a picture entitled, “Own a Home.” They can probably fake a tie-up with some Hollywood real estate agent.
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Benjamin II is called the gold-plated extra. No, he wiH not play toothless parts.
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Pola Negri’s new picture is supposed to be the kitten’s pajamas. I thought it was the rubber fishing rod myself.
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Some people think that Bunker Hill was captured by a lot of golf players. Mabel Normand has been digging into history again.
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Monocled Maids are the latest thing in Hollywood, but that doesn’t make them “see” the men any better.
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Claude McElhany has another good
one.
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