Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

7 Trailing JHotion Picture Stars “DOUBLE” OF LOUIS XVI It might have gone hard with Lorimer Johnston, who appears as King Louis XVI of France in Rex Ingram’s “Scaramouche,” if he had been living in Paris in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The fact that Louis was beheaded indicates his standing in the community at that time — and Mr. Johnston, in powdered wig and court costume, is an exact double of the ill-wated French monarch. Mr. Johnstone, a grand nephew of Albert Sidney Johnston, who, up to the time he was killed in the Battle of Shiloh was in supreme command of the Confederate forces, is a man of many parts. He is a native of Kentucky and a graduate of Columbia University. While playing in vaudeville in Chicago he was summoned by Col. William N. Selig one Monday morning in 1911. Two days later he was directing a picture for the Selig company. He was later with the American, Universal, Vitagraph and other companies, directing Mary Fuller, Jack Warren Kerrigan and others, and in 1915 went to Johannesburg, South Africa, to build a studio backed by American capital. He directed 16 feature productions and the only person at his command who had ever seen a motion picture camera was his wife, Caroline Frances Cook. He spent six months among the head-hunting natives of Zululand and was made a chief of one of the tribes. Mr. Johnston returned to the United States a few years ago. He recently completed the direction of “The Cricket On the Hearth,” in which he himself appeared in an important part. Others in the cast of this monster Metro production include Ramon No • varro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Edith Allen, Lloyd Ingraham, Julia Swayne Gordon, James Marcus, Lydia Yeamans Titus, William Humphrey, Carrie Clarke Ward, Otto Matiesen, Yvonne Gardelle, George Siegmann, Elizabeth Allen, Bowditch “Smoke” Turner, Nelson McDowell, Curt Furberg, Snitz Edwards, John George, Fred Warren, J. Edwin Brown and Truman Van Dyke. One way to get a crush on a girl is to take her on a crowded street car. Phil Rosen gave this bit of news. “MEANEST MAN” HAS A RIVAL! Bert Lytell, enacting the title role in the filming of George M. Cohan’s “The Meanest Man in the World,” received a letter from a woman in Boston as follows: Dear Bert: I see you are the meanest man in the films. My husband has it all over you. He gets $150 a week and rides in a taxi to go a block. I get nothing. Last week he would not give me enough money to have a tooth pulled, but punched me on the other side of the face to make both jaws look alike. Can you beat that? Bert can’t beat that, but answered the Boston lady advising her to beat it from her better half. Jeanette La Jaunness is deserving of a lifting hand. Only a short while ago she stuck fast to one of her own sex who finally passed away. She took care of all expenses, even to placing her friend in the final resting place. Today she is trying to meet all obligations by again returning to pictures after such a heart-rending experience. I am sure there are some big-hearted producers in the profession who won’t let such an act go by unrewarded. * * * George Kuwa is driving a classy car about and sitting pretty. He is one of the few actors in the profession so different in everything which they do. With Sessue Hayakawa deserting the screen for #the stage, George is coming into his own and playing some great parts. iJ V * Ora Carewe loves to act in pictures. In other words she is fixed well enough with the worldly things not to worry about the wolves hounding her door. But she honestly loves her art. EDWIN CLAPP SHOES Harris & Frank ARE Headquarters FOR Palm Beach AND Tropical Suits Flannel Trousers AND Outing Togs Moderate Prices Jack Mower and Eileen Sedgwick seem to have fallen right into the very thing that should make them a great team to compete with. They are exactly what the serial Daniel Boone called for as sweethearts. Director William Craft is finishing the episodes at Universal City.