Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

13 Hand-Outs Along the Rialto FAIRLY GOOD It takes Arthur Edmund Carew to prove that all Russians are not either too fat or too thin, and unshaved and Bolshevik. He plays the “heavy” in Katherine MacDonald’s new picture, “Refuge,” now under way at the B. P. Schulberg studios. For a handsomer man is hard to find among the denizens of Hollywood. He is of the Continental school of manners and is quite polished. He is from the southwestern section of Russia. And if you expect to find a wildeyed radical when you meet him, you will be disappointed. For he is quiet, poised and a most interesting talker. The other day a nice gushing girlie met him on the set. “Oh, are you a Russian?” she cried. “Oh, I’ve been to Russia. And I just loved to hear the Russian peasants playing that quaint music on their caviars.” GETTING LIGHT By Art Rick I’ve read in booklets and in pamphlets by the score, Of Golden California, on the far Pacific shore; Of its wondrous climate and its sunny skies, Of its sunkist groves and the summer that never dies, Of its oranges and its Iowaians that by irrigation grow, Of its perfume-ladened zephyrs on the hillsides where the poppies blow. But I, like the darky, “Do Opine,” California, sans the sun, is an awful case of shine. “JUST LIKE A WOMAN” By Clara Kimball Young He sent her . . . flowers . . . candy . . . love notes . . . bank notes . . . taxis . . . gowns . . . hats . . . checks . . . dogs . . . motors . . . and a lot . . . more . . . But to prove that she was a woman with the usual amount of feminine brains, she of course, sued him for breach of promise. And made an extra fifty thousand, or so. * * * Frank Campeau, has been added to the all-star cast of the Maurice Tourneur productions of “The Isle of Dead Ships,” which includes Anna Q. Nilsson and Milton Sills. AFTER ELEVEN YEARS It was just eleven years ago when three enterprising young men decided to try the salty brine at Long Branch, N. J. This trio were not exactly musketeers, but they possessed the same adventuresome dispositions, and so it came about that “Willie” Sullivan disported, awkwardly and timidly in the bosom of “Father Neptune” when suddenly he let out a yell, and A1. Renton, a fair swimmer, rushed madly to the rescue of his pal (ostensibly meeting a horrible death) who was apparently “going down for the third time,” the meanwhile the last of this trio gave explicit directions to A1 just how “Willie” should be brought in. This individual is at present writing this anecdote. Well, to resume our theme, “Willie” was brought in, and the HERO(?), glowing with self-satisfaction, started working madly over his chum. The editor merely looked on, for be it said, the editor had witnessed too many practical jokes played by Sullivan in the past to pay much attention to the present affair. He wasn’t wrong, for as A1 was just giving up exercising the DEFUNCT (?) in despair, said corpse gave us a surreptitious wink. and. we calmly resumed our interrupted snooze on the hot sand. We never knew a time when WILLIAM SULLIVAN (to give him his full classic name) wasn’t able to do things just a little bit better than the other fellow, and. so, after eleven years, since the above occurrence, we find him. playing a most important part in “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” supporting that great natural actor, Charles Ray. Mr. Sullivan motored all the way from New York, arriving in Los Angeles in August. He had just returned from Europe, when he heard the call of Hollywood. He has played a prominent part in moving pictures for the past eleven years, being under contract with Pathe about four years of this time. He is becoming popular in the colony, but this MELANCHOLY Oh God! what man, who knowing — That bliss was meant for all — Should witness joydom — showing Yet he — but sip of gall? Should see all faces glowing, And notice love lit — glances! Yet feel none for him showing — Beyond those of his fancies. Can such be thy bestowing — Must I be sorrow’s slave? If so I take the going That brings me near the grave. ■ — By Marshall Lorimer. DOES IT PAY? About three weeks ago Murray Spencer, former Yale student, who is now climbing the cinema ladder to success, voluntarily played the part of a Good Samaritan in reality by getting a young fellow out of jail through the process of paying his fine. Just to give the seemingly unfortunate chap a further chance to get started on the right foot, this same Good Samaritan gave him the liberty of his Hollywood apartment, Now the beneficiary of all this goodness is missing and likewise about $500 worth of Spencer’s personal effects are missing. The ungrateful one had taken full advantage of having the freedom of the actor’s apartment. “In view of the fact that this is something like the ’steenth time this same fate has been my lot for undertaking to extend a helping hand, I’m on the verge of deciding it’s a bad policy to be too ready to do good turns for strangers,” Spencer says. And, we’ll say he’d better get off the verge and decide to said effect instanter! isn’t surprising, as he has just the right kind of a personality that represents the winning of additional friends.