Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

9 On Strips of Celluloid “THE THREE AGAINST PHOEBE” By Claude McElhany It looked more like a floor mop. It was a dog. Maybe it didn’t look like it, but it was just the same. A feminine person with the usual amount of modem clothes on or off, called the alleged animal, Phoebe. Even that seemed such a big, rough name for such a wee ’ittle dog, bless her ’lil heart. This feminine person had Phoebe attached to one end of a silk ribbon, but as silk ribbons sometimes do, this one broke and away went Phoebe down the street. The usual feminine squeal brought three volunteer male dog chasers to her aid, as feminine squeals usually do. As the three stepped on each others newly polished shoes, and lost their own well blocked hats, Phoebe, the ’ittle devil, dashed through their frantic legs and into two outstretched white arms, belonging to this feminine person on the street curb. “Aw, was ’lil Phoebe hurt by those terrible rough men, who almost scared her to death?” she cooed. Phoebe answered by hanging out a tiny red tongue. The feminine person turned up her snub nose, as feminine persons sometimes do, and glided on. The three, somewhat misplaced, would-be dog catchers jerked their ties to their places, recovered their hats and silently walked off. “Shine, suh!” came a black-faced voice. Three grim curses rent the summer air. Margaret Landis is playing the leading feminine role opposite Harry Carey in “The Miracle Baby.” PLAYING WITH VIOLA DANA With the arrival from New York of Tom Moore, Harold Shaw is ready to begin filming of “Rouged Lips,” Viola Dana’s newest Metro starring picture. Mr. Moore will be featured opposite Miss Dana in this story of the stage written by Rita Weiman. Arline Pretty and Nola Luxford also have been selected for important roles. Miss Pretty was a member of the cast of “Love in the Dark,” one of Miss Dana’s recent pictures, and also portrayed one of the chief characters in “The White Flower” with Betty Compson. Miss Luxford has not been in motion pictures long. She played the leading role in “The Flying Dutchman.” Mimi Yvonne, who is one of Miss Dana’s sister players in the chorus, first appeared in pictures under Mr. Shaw’s direction when she was a child, before he went to England to direct ten years ago. She has been on the screen since she was four years old. Included in the cast is Francis Powers, secretary of the Motion Picture Directors’ Association and a former director himself. “Rouged Lips” will mark his first appearance before the camera in a long time. Edward Coxen, former star in American film productions, and Fred Warren, well-known blackface comedian, will also appear in this picture. Others are George K. Arthur, who played in many of Mr. Shaw’s English productions, Sidney de Gray, Georgia Woodthorpe and Dorothy Dale. A new one by Lige Conley: Recently a large crowd of men collected at Selig’s Zoo. 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We’re referring to Eddie Cline, who is now directing Bert Lytell and Blanche Sweet in the “Meanest Man in the World.” When Carmelita Geraghty appeared before Ernest Luitsch, who had reviewed that day only 100 fair damsels for the role of a Spanish favorite for Mary Pickford’s new production, he immediately said: “You are just the type.” For that Miss Geraghty feels sh is indebted to her mother’s nationality, who is Spanish and from the famous De Cessares family of San Francisco. The young actress is now appearing in the Cosmopolitan film, “The Daughter of Mother McGinn.” * * * ABOUT BEN COLLIER By C. L. Theuerkauf I looked down from the balcony At B. C.’s clean bald pate, And seemed to sense the history Of luck that followed TATE. For when Ben Collier dines — Say twice, in any restaurant, It stands to reason it is nice And worthy any vaunt. Pierre Codings, protegt of Lucien Audriot, is now filming “Blow Your Own Horn,” under the direction of James Horne. Codings and Andriot have been assocaited for four years, but since Andriot is to film “In the Palace of the King,” under the direction of Emmett Flynn, for Goldwyn, and Codings is shooting the Robertson-Cole picture, the two confedrates are separated. * * * Richard Walton Tully shuddered with horror this morning when he learned that Max Constant, playing “Dodor” in “Trilby,” is seriously contemplating the purchase of a motorcycle. “Wed,” observed Mr. Tully, “avoid Orange county!” * * * King Baggot will direct Baby Peggy in all-star features for Universal.