Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

16 Bright Hints For Human Beings By “US” or “WE” DON’T TREAT HER ROUGH(?) Thais Valdemar, “wandering daughter,’’ who escaped from Russia to seek happiness and perhaps fame in motion pictures, was once the Princess Waldemar Volkonsky and a favorite in the czar's household. She finds herself playing a bit in “Wandering Daughters,” the initial James Young production which Sam E. Rork is presenting, a First National attraction. This wandering daughter fought every inch of the way to reach Hollywood. After spending many years of her life in and out of Russian prisons, subject to Bolshevik brutalities, during which time her mother died of injuries; after seeing her father, General George Kiseleff, executed; after losing her husband, Valdomar Volkonsky, in the war, Thais Kisileff fled to America via Siberia, Japan and China. She is an accomplished dancer and singer. Being a Russian, she is a natural actress. Her ambition is to place her name among the many foreign screen notables. HELPING “FID” OUT “I seem to be the only moving picture acto-r in all Hollywood who hasn’t had some space on the subject of old King Tuttankamen,” cried . Edward Martindel, as he bounded into the office of his publicity agent yesterday afternoon. “How come?” Forthcoming explanations proving unsatisfactory, be it here said that after tracing back ancestry some thousands of years to the day of old King Tut, it has been discovered that he “may” have been a great-great-great (repeat ten times and multiply by fifty) grandfather of Martindel. “At least,” weakly contends the p. a., “that word ‘may’ leaves room for speculation. No one can argue the point. Besides, from all the publicity Tut-Tut is receiving, he must have been a good actor — and I hope Martindel reads this, for obviously it compares the two.” Mitchell Lewis says that a man will only look a girl in the face when her dress is long. * * * Jack Mower comes in with this: Some people are bom great, others grate upon us. TRIANGLE STUFF AGAIN By Hugh Thompson Corliss was in an awful mess, such as pretty girls often get into. Especially the kind that Corliss was — a slender blonde, with sofe blue eyes, slim hands and feet; a perfect sense of rhythm. There is no doubt about it, Corliss was in love, and then her love affected two people besides herself. That was the messy part of it. All three were placed in an awkward position. Corliss liked that sort of thing — and then, too, she was determined to marry. Well, you know the answer when a girl sets her mind to marry. But — He and Corliss would be married today, if he had been successful in securing the divorce they had planned. But what difference did it make — they all lived in the same city anyway! THIS ISN’T TRUE— BUT Since Allen Holubar, producer of “Slander The Woman” and numerous other screen successes recently announced that he seriously contemplated building a model “little theatre in Hollywood, he has been besieged by real estate operators who would supply him with ideal boulevard sites for the playhouse. The other evening as the noted director-produced was returning from the studio at a late hour, a figure emerged from behind a tree in front of the Holubar residence and accosted him. Believing that he was being “stuck up,” the producer held up his hands and told the intruder to “go to it.” Greatly to his surprise, the “burglar” burst out laughing and when asked to explain the cause of his merriment said: “I don’t want your money that bad. Just want to tell you about a swell lot I’ve got on Hollywood boulevard for your proposed theatre.” Did he sell the lot to Holubar? Hardly. VERA STEADMAN WITH ‘BULL’ Vera Steadman returns to the screen in “One Wild Day,” the new Hunt Stromberg-Metro comedy, starring “Bull” Montana. Miss Steadman, who is one of the original Mack Sennett bathing beauties, has been featured in Christie Comedies and appeared opposte Charles Ray n “Scrap Iron.” HIS NEW HOME George O’Hara may be heralded one of these days as a real estate dealer instead of star of the “Fighting Blood” series. For the young actor has registered another good “buy” on Ogden Drive and Melrose and last week committed the moving act into a charming seven-room bungalow . Now that he has entered the home owning class, O'Hara is likely to run for some Hollywood office and is considering where he would best qualify. “First,” said George, “I’ll have a heart for easterners who come out here looking for the wickedness of Hollywood. I’m going to start a movement to have something faked up so that they won’t eternally be disappointed; There’s a job that will keep a fellow working overtime!” LUCKY ESMERALDA The all-star character of the impressive cast supporting Lon Chaney in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at Universal City has been further heightened by the addition of Gladys Brockwell, who far years was one of the most popular stars of the silversheet. Miss Brockwell will play the role of the mother of Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer who is impersonated in the picture by Patsy Ruth Miller. The role is dramatic and has those emotional possibilities which Miss Brockwell can always be expected to realize to the fullest extent. Wallace Worsley, director; Perley Poore Sheehan, adapter, and Chaney are determined that every character of the fifteenth century classis will be reproduced faithfully in the moving shadows of the screen epic. SHE’S IN “THE FRENCH DOLL” Rose Dion, who is appearing in support of Mae Murray in “The French Doll,” her newest production for Metro in which she is presented by Robert Z. Leonard, was one of the leading actresses of France previous to her entrance into pictures in the United States. E. J. Harter springs one: “This is a duty I don’t like,” said the customs inspector. * * * The expression, “The Cow’s Hip,” may be used when only eating steak. So says Hughie Fay.