Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

12 JUST BETWEEN OURSELVE ^mHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiN 1 “ “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 i EE Advertising Rates on Contract Basis M j Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” 1 n All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor = i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinu MILTON HOFFMAN RETURNS “CHUCK” REISNER TO DIRECT Milton E. Hollman, Metro production manager, returned to Los Angeles from New York where he spent several weeks confering with Metro executives regarding the six special Viola Dana pictures, the six all-star productions and the Technicolor picture that are to be made under his supervision at the Metro studios during the coming year. According to the present plans as announced by Mr. Hoffman on his arrival, actual production on Miss Dana’s first picture and on the initial all-star feature will be started about April 1st. Encouraged by the success of the first Technicolor picture, “Toll of the Sea,” which was released by Metro recently, another color production will be made in the near future. Several important improvements have been made since the filming of “Toll of the Sea” which makes Technicolor the most successful process of its kind to date. While in the East he started negotiations for a number of stories for Viola Dana as well as for the Metro all-star productions. Mr. Hoffman reported an alarming scarcity of good original stories suitable for screen productions. Bad weather doesn’t cause the price to raise for silk stockings, but it does dresses. This deep one is by J. L. Frothingham. Charles “Chuck” Reisner has been elevated from supporting actor in Hunt Stromberk’s comedy productions for Metro starring “Bull” Montana to director of the burglar faced fun maker. He already has started the filming of "Hard Boiled.” This is not Mr. Reisner’s first experience in handling a megaphone. He has directed more than 100 comedies including those featuring Jimmy Adams, Lloyd Hamilton, Lewis Sargent and Dinky Dean. He was also associated with Charles Chaplin in the filming of several Chaplin features, and acted in “A Dog’s Life,” “Shoulder Arms,” “A Day’s Pleasure,” “The Kid” and “The Pilgrim.” He is one of the pioneers of comedy production, starting as a “gag” man with Keystone when Ford Sterling, Roscoe Arbuckle and others were there. Mr. Reisner also has had a stage experience of considerable length and breadth. He started by traveling with a minstrel show, was in vaudeville for years and also in musical comedy. He has written vaudeville acts for Jack Dempsey and Jack Kearns, Margaret Young, Rena Arnold and himself. He also earned an excellent reputation as a song writer. Included among the pictures in which he has appeared in support of “Bull” Montana are: “A Ladies’ Man,” “Glad Rags,” “Rob ’em Good,” “The Two Twins” and “Snowed Under.” BARTINE BURKETT Screen Ingenue A FOOL THERE WAS HE HAD WORKED WITHOUT A MISS FOR TWO YEARS AT $350 A WEEK. ONLY HIMSELF AND WIFE TO CARE FOR. THREE WEEKS AFTER HE LOST HIS JOB THE COMPANY PULLED OUT HIS TELEPHONE, AND THE GROCERY MAN WAS REAL NASTY ABOUT A LITTLE BILL OF A HUNDRED AND FORTY-SOME ODD DOLLARS. IF HE HAD JUST PUT A MISERABLE LITTLE TEN PER CENT OF THAT SALARY INTO A SIX PER CENT ACCOUNT WITH THE GUARANTY BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION AT 6364 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT WOULD HAVE MADE. WITH NEARLY $4000 WHERE HE COULD LAY HIS HANDS ON IT, HE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM ALL TO GO TO — TO THEIR BOOKS AND CREDIT HIM WITH PAYMENT. — A dvt. Jack Sullivan, on seeing Loehr Harmon recently, inquired innocently — “How long are you out for?” This was an awkward question to ask, inasmuch as Mr. Harmon had been experimenting sanitation problems at the Lizzy Heights Jail — where all refined speeders are vacationing this Spring, through the invariable courtesy of Judge Chambers. Perhaps Loehr will have Jack buy the gasoline for this oily remark.