Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

8 Shadows From the Silver Sheet | GOSSIP BY ] } THE ROUNDER j A1 St. John, Fox comedy star, who has earned the title, “Maker of Stars,” because so many of his leading women have left his employ during the past few years to accept starring parts with other companies, has a new “moniker” — “creator of directors.” His able assistant, Benjamin Stoloff, has left him to produce comedies on his own for Fox distribution. * * * IT’S DIFFERENT— THEN If you would be happy, though married, get a megaphone and boss your wife around the lot. Such is the recipe several motion picture directors have found to be successful. Bernard Durning, Fox director, tells his pretty little wife, Shirley Mason, just when and where to get on and off the set, for he is directing her in “The Eleventh Hour,” and the Durnings are an ideally mated couple. Allen Holubar has been doing the same thing with Dorothy Phillips during their professional career, and they are pointed out as Plollywood’s supremely happy pair. And then there is Arthur Beck, who makes Leah Baird productions, and numerous others, who believe in bossing their wives on the set, but when at home — well, use your own best judgment. It isn’t the talk that gets lovers in wrong, it’s the silence. William Sullivan has told us this * * * These King Tut gowns should be “huge” successes on women who are built like pyramids. Marjorie Daw has told us this. * * * Norman Taurog wrote this little wheeze: One fellow got all lit up the other night with a light blonde. USED FOTOPLAYER at a Bargain Price! Remarkable opportunity for motion picture theatre! Fotoplayer in perfect condition; gives complete orchestral reproduction; played by 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 PROVING HERSELF If anyone imagines that because the girl is known throughout the country as one of the Zeigfeld Folly Girls and because she is one of that beauteous aggregation that she does not possess any other ability than filling the public eye with her graceful and charming person, then the one imagining that state of affairs, would be pleasantly contradicted, for, we have before us in this little subject, the story of Peggy Browne. This golden-typed beauty, who was noted for her dancing, and who can still perform cleverly in the Terpsichorean art, decided to attain newer fame in the Silent Drama. Has she succeeded? Judging from her recent exploits in our local Cinematic Colony, she has. She recently terminated a successful engagement, playing a most important part with William Desmond in a Universal Five Reel Feature. Previous to this, in New York City, Peggy Browne, as she is more famously known, has played feminine ingenue leads in several two-reel comedies, but she decided that, although she could succeed as a comedienne, she felt that the latent dramatic ability, which is in the hearts of all aspirants for fame, would some day find its legitimate outlet in greater film achievements, through her efforts. STEIN-BLOCH SMART CLOTHES — is just a short way of sayingthe utmost in quality, style and value. The models for young men are more stunning than ever this season. Let us show you some of the latest patterns. $45 to $65 She has several important engagements contracted for within the next few months, and although she, like other strangers in our midst from Manhattan, becomes homesick, there isn’t a doubt but as success gradually comes to her, that that feeling of being alone on the Pasific Coast, will vanish, and she, like many of the presentday stars, will consider the City of Los Angeles, to be the ideal location, where a girl can bask in sunshine, the meanwhile she attain her ambition of being one of the elite in film circles. For the convenience of busy people Resources 55 Million Dollars Ray Enright, who has been assistant director and cutter at the Mack Sennett studios, has been promoted to chief cutter. He has just completed assembling “She Loves Me Not,” first Sennett comedy to be released through Pathe, under the supervision of F. Richard Jones.