Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

HINTS FROM INCE Four companies are now engaged in active production work and a fifth is just preparing to begin shooting on the lot of the Thomas H. Ince Studios. In spite of the tremendous activity, the studios are only running at fifty per cent capacity, however, as they are equipped to handle the Work of ten companies. * * * Under personal supervision of Ince, John Griffith Wray is directing an original drama of American life, written by Bradley King and starring May McAvoy with Lloyd Hughes heading an all-star cast. * * * Frank Borzage is directing a Cosmopolitans Productions picture of Fanny Hurst's “Nth Commandment,” featuring Colleen Moore and James Morrison, while Arthur Beck has just begun work on the second of the Leah Baird special productions starring Miss Baird. An adaptation of her novel, “Michael O’Halloran,” has just been completed by Gene Stratton Porter while a fifth independent company expects to begin production work on the Ince lot in a few days. * * * Roy Stone is completing the cutting of “A Man of Action,” a novel mystery comedy directed by James Horne from an original story by Bradley King. Douglas MacLean, Marguerite de la Motte and Raymond Hatton head a splendid cast. * * * Sitting on a broken bottle is worse than cutting corners! William Duncan cuttingly remarks. USED FOTOPLAYER at a Bargain Price! Remarkable opportunity for motion picture theatre! Fotoplaver in perfect condition; gives complete orchestral reproduction ; played hy hand or from doubletracker player piano ; provides excellent picture music at minimum cost. Music continuous — no pauses for rewinding — ;an be changed instantly to fit the scene. A. chance to make your music, as well as your films, a source of steady profit! Terms, if desired. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for full description. A.B.Cox,717 Tribune Bldg., Chicago UNIVERSAL PICK-UPS Activities in the editorial department include the final polishing of “The Gentleman From America,” starring Edward (Hoot) Gibson; “The Prisoner,” a George Barr McCutcheon story starring Herbert Rawlinson; "The First Degree” and “The Bolted Door,” starring Frank Mayo; “The Power of a Lie,’ with an all-star cast headed by Mabel Julienne Scott,. Maude George, David Torrence and Earle Metcalf, and “The Ghost Patrol,” with an all-star assemblage of favorites, including Bessie Love, Ralph Graves, George Nichols and others. * * * Preparations are being made for the most elaborate picture ever made. The sets alone will entitle it to this standing. The cast is headed by Lon Chaney. Wallace Worsley will direct. It is Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” considered by Universal the finest screen material of all the older classics, and written into screen continuity by a team of widely-known scenario experts— Perley Poore Sheehan and E. T. Lowe, Jr. The Cathedral of Notre Dame will be reproduced and will be the most impressive structure ever built for the screen. * * * Stuart Paton is directing an all-star cast with Wallace Beery, Estelle Taylor, Forrest Stanley, Nick de Ruiz, Nell Craig, Sylvia Breamer, Josef Swickard, Martha Mattox, Vera James and other famous players in “The Attic of Felix Bavu,” a foreign play by an American, Earl Carroll. This will be a Universal-Jewel special. * * * Rupert Julian is entering the last sequence in his filming of “Merry Go Round,” the dramatic story of changing fortunes in the most colorful old world capital, Vienna. Norman Keqry, Mary Philbin, Maude George, Dale Fuller, George Siegman, Maurice Talbot, Caesar Gravina, and other noted artists have the principal roles in this Universal-Jewel production. Hobart Henley is well into the direction of “The Abysmal Brute,” Jack London’s pen picture of the prize ring and a “cave man.” Reginald Denny is featured in this Universal-Jewel special, with Mabel Julienne Scott, Hayden Stevenson and others in support. * * * George Archainbaud directed Grace Darmond, Mahlon Hamilton and Clyde Fillmore in an all-star production, “Flesh,” which pictured the conflict of optimism and cynicism in the fight to save a beautiful criminal from the reward of her past life. * * * W, Emile passed the best part of turkey day chasing Holly in Holly Wood. Would you? LYNWOOD CRYSTAL RAPP Child Actress Seven High Class Bouts EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT In the Airiest Boxing Arena in the West Hollywood Legion Stadium El Centro, Off Hollywood Blvd. ’Phone Reservations — Holly 100