Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

6 With Comedians in Comedy Lane HOW SHE ROSE Miss Dupont, who will be seen in one of the most principal roles in the Selznick all-star production of Robert W. Chambers’ noted story “The Common Law,” is a southern product. She was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, of good old southern stock, her grandfather having been a Methodist minister and her father a raiser of fine horses. However, the family moved to Chicago and after a time Miss Dupont went to a convent in a small town in Missouri and later to Illinois State Normal School in Bloomington. Later she was a student at the Loring School for Girls in Chicago. A short time after she graduated the family moved to California. Miss Dupont had designed dresses for the girls at school, and upon her arrival in Los Angeles she secured a position as designer in one of the local department stores. One day a director was staging some scenes which were laid in a modiste shop and he needed someone to help pose the models, so he called up the department store and asked for help. The department store sent Miss Dupont to the studio and the director was so much impressed by her beauty that he gave her a small part in the production. She scored an immediate hit and was given the principal role in Erich von Stroheim’s production, “Foolish Wives.” Before the production was completed she was elevated to stardom. Vi McIntyre whispered, she could have had a great part the other day, but she couldn’t “make-up” her mind. KATHLEEN CLIFFORD ENGAGED Kathleen Clifford, famous “best dressed boy” of the stage, and also a picture star by the way, has been engaged by A1 Christie and will be featured in the next Christie comedy to go into production. Miss Clifford was known as the Famous Boy in vaudeville, the Julian Eltinge of ingenues, for her wellknown role in the snappiest of dinner clothes and a monocle. It is likely that in the comedy which A1 Christie will direct she will play a similar character to that which she launched so successfully in her own act in vaudeville. If the story includes such a character it will be the first time done in pictures from a comedy angle. Miss Clifford’s most recent picture appearance was in “Kick In,” the George Fitzmaurice production in Paramount’s program. Prior to that she played in many other feature productions after a varied career on the stage which included vaudeville, Ziegfeld revues and starring in her own legitimate productions. Otto Lederer was born in Prague and acted on the operatic stage in Vienna, and with the Irving Place stock company in New York before going into motion pictures. Mabel Ballin is probably the only picture star in the world who prefers to be called Mrs. instead of Miss. She likes it, she says, because “it’s different.” She is playing the role of Becky Sharp in Hugo Ballin’s production of “Vanity Fair.” * * * We might say that buying hair nets for the wifey is certainly a “net” loss. Arthur K. Doe again. MARGUERITE KOSIK A Bright Child Actress Now playing with Charles Ray in “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” JACK COOPER Comedian Wig Rental Hepner Method Permanent Wigs Waving our Specialty to Order Toupees Hair Hepner Toilette Preparations Dressing Phone 52220 1001 West Seventh Street Marcelling (Just west of Figueroa) Shampooing Jiepner INCOI\POI\ATED LOS ANGELES No Parking Restrictions NEW YORK WASHINGTON, D. C. PLEASE PATRONIZ E— W HO ADVERTIS E— I N “CLOSE-UP