Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

14 SCREENING WHERE THE SCREENING’S GOOD Broadsides By ARGUS Now Mitchell Lewis tells one. A chap brought his yacht from New York called “Radio.” He had to have it tuned up to our waves here. * * * In Hollywood the extra’s fancy always turns to the next day’s check. Ray La Verne tells one of his own. * * * Mary Jane Sanderson portrays one of the leading roles in “Blow Your Own Horn.” * * * Another one by Pell Trenton. The spot light is an object which helps us to find the leading lady in a mob scene. * * * Katherine Henry pulls this question: If it’s only a cell that separates Man from a Monkey, what separates Man from Woman? (Then she answers it.) A double Sell! * * * “You can neevr trust a wisp of hair, when it lies about a woman’s face,” states George McDaniel. He should know. * * * Roy Marshall makes the remark that there’s little speed in selling our fleet ships. * * * Lottie Vermont claims that an actress can’t get long with her weekly variety. Just what does she mean? * * * I think it was Lloyd Ingraham who said: “Go yeastwards, my boy, and get in the dough.” * * * “Have you noticed how the oranges get smaller as the year gets longer?” inquires Dustin Famum. * * * A girl doesn’t necessarily have to be in mouring because she wears black stockings, asserts Jimmie Aubrey. * * * “The Sheik of Hollywood” is being filmed by Fred Caldwell. You know Close-Up published a song of this same title some time ago. * * * Henry J. Hebert says that the voice of spring this year is green whiskey. CHRISTIE GIRL ILL Hazel Deane, new Christie leading lady, is seriously ill at the Clara Barton Hospital, suffering from peritonitis. She was taken sick suddenly on the day when a new picture was to be started. * * * ALL HAVE PERFECT TEETH The father of Ramon Novarro, new young Metro star, and Mr. Novarro’s twelve brothers and sisters, is a dentist, but he has not done more than two hours' dental work on his entire family. * * * Beta Ceti is now the first star in the heavens. “Good heavens!” cried one producer, “maybe I can sign it up for a couple of years.” Harry Webb is given credit for the above lines. * * * We suppose that every actor in Hollywood, after working all day long, goes home and learns two or three hundred lines of Shakespeare before retiring. June La Vere wants to know about this. * * * One girl said that she had talent in her legs. Well, I always did like to watch talent. Joseph W. Girrard is rather clever today. * * =?= Famous love orators are now rehearsing their summer flirtation speeches. Shirley Mason tells us this. * * * When a person thinks you a fool remain silent and he has no proof. DILLON AT UNIVERSAL Jack Dillon, who directed Mary Pickford in “Suds” and who has directed many other notable screen successes, has been engaged by Universal to direct the “Self-Made Wife,” which will be produced with an all-star cast. Production has just started. “The Self-Made Wife” was written as a serial for the Saturday Evening Post by Elizabeth Alexander, and later published in book form. It was adapted to the screen by Edward T. Lowe, who wrote the continuity for “Under Two Flags,” “The Prisoner,” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Among the well-known screen players who have already been chosen for the cast of “The Self-Made Wife” are Ethel Gray Terry, Crawford Kent, Virginia Ainsworth and Dorothy Cummings. NILES WELCH SIGNS FOR “SAWDUST” So favorable an impression was made by Niles Welch by his playing in the Universal production “What Wives Want,” recently completed by Director Jack Conway, that the popular leading man was immediately reengaged for the principal male role in the new production, “Sawdust,” which is also to be made at Universal City under the direction of Jack Conway. Welch, who is rated by many as one of the most promising young screen actors, has played opposite many of the foremost stars of the day and will be particularly remembered for his fine work in “Reckless Youth,” “The Secret of the Storm Country,” “Hand Phil Dunham does another ditty. cuffs or Kisses” and “Under Oath.” The Royale Country Club Features the BURTNETT-MILLER ORCHESTRA (“THE UPPER TEN” HARMONISTS) This aggregation is composed of selected Soloists known for their pre-eminent ability as Masters of Syncopation. The WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY night AFFAIRS WILL LINGER IN YOUR MEMORY. “You Can’tMake Your Feet Behave When They Play” WHEN ARE YOU COMING? Let Us Know by Phone Santa Monica 63492 PLEASE PATRONIZE— WHO ADVERTISE-IN “CLOSE-UP”