Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

12 JUST TWEEN GUR8ELV Marshall Lorimer Editor and Prop. “CLOSE-UP” The Magazine of Movie Land Issued the 5th and 20th of Each Month Editorial and Business Office: 603 Western Mutual Life Bldg., (formerly Exchange Bldg.) 321 West Third Street. Telephone 820-609. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ONE YEAR TWO DOLLARS Advertising Rates on Contract Basis Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor AT SENNETT’S SKETCH FOR METRO Roy Del Ruth, whiom Mack Sennett has selected to direct the next Ben Turpin comedy (special, is very busy with the scenario staff under the supervision of the Comedy King, preparing for Turpin’s next start, which it is understood will give the crosseyed comedian ample opportunity to be more interestingly funny than ever ■before. * * * Miss Kathryn McGuire, one of the most promising ingenues on the lot, is expected to return to the comedy home in about two weeks, when plans will 'be discussed 'for her future appearances in Mack Sennett comedies. Rumors have it that she will, owing to her recent success in “The S'hreik of Araby,” continue to support Ben Turpin. * * * John Grey, of the scenario staff, was host to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Del Ruth, Mr. and Mrs. Mell Brown, Monty Banks and Miss Ruth Holly, at a dinner party given Saturday evening. Not wishing to take too much credit for the party, Grey allowed Monty Banks to prepare the dinner, which included ■the best set of spaghetti ever constructed, in which effort Monty was assisted ’by Miss Holly. Roy Del Ruth, with his inseparable companion, a favorite old violin, contributed to the music for the evening, while Mell Brown, accompanred on the piano by Mrs. Brown, rendered several vocal selections from the repertoire of John Steele. The conversation was furnished by John Grey. After dinner the entire party visoted Levey’s Cafe in Hollywood, the rendezvous of cinema celebrities, to get something to eat. Father’s bootlegger does most of his business with daughter new. Information from Lige Conley. “Your Friend and Mine,” a dramatic sketch by Willard Mack, which was also played in vaudeville under the title of "The Rat,” will furnish the nucleus for the new S-L (SawyerLubin) special production for Metro. Arthur Sawyer of the S-L organization announced the purchase of this sketch following the completion of “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” which was the first S-L special to be filmed for Metro. This picture will be released in the near future. Clarence G. Badger, who directed “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” will handle the megaphone for “Your Friend and Mine.” Mr. Badger is at the present time working with Winifred Dunn, who is preparing the adaptation and continuity for this new picture. Harry Carey has his eyebrows singed and his face and arms slightly seared when he rode through the mountain fire in front of a horse stampede and picked up Miss Vale while tearing along at full speed in filming “The One Man,” his third starring vehicle for F. B. O. release. Miss Vale also was slightly burned. =t= =1= We were held up the other night and the burglar certainly took our time. He got the watch. This bit of nonsense from Clarence Badger. * * * The story of the three bares by Jean Calhoun. Three young girls went to a dance. * * * Bill Desmond is making “Around the World in Eighteen Days.” We’d like to see Stroheim make this. * * * Some people are so dumb that they think a skipper’s daughter has a dancing teacher for a father. Edith Johnson has discovered this. WHAT’S WHAT ON THE GARSON LOT “An Old Sweetheart of Mine,” independent Harry Garson production of James Whitcomb Riley’s poem, is nearing completion. Elliott Dexter and Helen Jerome Eddy head a cast of featured players including Lloyd Whitlock, Arthur Hoyt and Barbara Worth. Mr. Garson is personally directing the picture and the photography by William O’Connel will bring to the screen some new effects in atmospheric lighting. The final scenes will be made within the next two weeks. THIS IS MEAN David Torrence is getting lonesome because ever since coming to Hollywood he has been denied the company of lovable characters such as he has always played on the stage. In every picture he has appeared, he has been called upon to play mean characters and he says it is becoming a veritable obscession with him to long for a chance to return to his normal class of characterizations. He played the acrimonious Elias Graves in Mary Pickford’s new “Tess of the Storm Country” and is just in the midst of his second “mean man” interpretation at Universal City, where he has been under the direction of Emile Chautard. BARTINE BURKETT Screen Ingenue