Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

8 =?lllllllll);illll!llllllll!ltillllllllllllUIIIII!llllllllllll!lllllllllllltllllllllllH Shadows From the Silver Sheet ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu ; GOSSIP BY THE ROUNDER | FROM USHER TO DIRECTOR Several years ago, when the motion picture industry was in swaddling clothes, John Francis Dillon, the wellknown director, was an usher in the old American theatre on Broadway, New York, and Elliott Dexter, prominent screen leading man, was a member of that theatre's stock company. Naturally there was quite a bit of reminiscing when these two met recently at the United Studios, Hollywood, on the stage where “Flaming Youth” is being produced, with Dillon directing and Dexter playing one of the principal parts. Tom Murray, formerly with Buster Keaton comedies and in “The Pilgrim” with Charles Chaplin, has been engaged to play in Joe Rock comedies for Grand-Asher. Murray is a wellknown and talented comedian. * * * * George Zip Williams, that acrobatic comedian, and another well known funster have been asked to form another one of those Hall Room Boys team and make a series of pictures for the independent market, for there is a demand for them right now, and if some wise promoter who wants a sure fire bet doesn’t get his finger in the pie right quick, he'll be sorry he didn’t pick up the tip, for Zip has won a great following for himself, and with a good man working with him, it’s a push over towards success. * * Snowy Baker is just about through with “Dark Faces,” a feature picture that he is appearing in under the Phil Goldstone banner. It deals with African life, and animals of the jungles. Are You Interested in beautiful GOWNS? You can purchase in my home at 2006 IVAE AVE., Hollywood, the changing wardrobe of 10 of the BEST DRESSED STARS on the SCREEN! All articles of wearing apparel at a GREAT SACRIFICE. Many of these GOWNS were worn in only ONE PICTURE. Screen Stars Wardrobe Exchange 2006 I VAR AVE. PHONE 437-028 (Cahuenga Ave. to Franklin, Then One Block East and Two North) THE BROWN PAINTED DWELLING IS 2006 STRANGER THAN FICTION Here’s a true one : Eight years ago a school girl of fourteen came to the old Vitagraph studios out in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her name was Constance Talmadge. J. Stuart Blackton, ever on the lookout for budding talent, gave the school girl a small part in a picture. Glen MacWilliams was the cameraman on the production. The school girl was more interested in the camera than anything else in the studio and a friendship sprang up between the cameraman and the Erasmus Hall student. MacWilliams explained all the details of picture making to Miss Talmadge who, when she went back to school, gave him her picture. MacWilliams wrote on the back of it : “Some day you will be a star, Miss Talmadge, and when that time comes, I hope that I will be your cameraman.” This week at the United Studios where Constance Talmadge is appearing in “The Dangerous Maid,” a Joseph M. Schenck attraction, Cameraman MacWilliams who is filming Constance in the picture, rapped on her dressing room door. “Do you remember this?” he asked Constance, handing her a much battered “still.” Constance looked long at the photograph. “I’m sure I do,” she said, “and before I turn it over and look at the writing I’m sure is on the back, I’m going to quote word for word just what you wrote on it. You were the first to predict that I would some day become a star and it was to make your prophecy come true for both of us that I asked Air. Schenck to let you be my camreaman.” Sid Smith’s recent experiments in building, wherein he took every possible occasion to help the carpenters construct his new Hollywood home, stood him in good stead when he started his Grand-Asher comedy, “Built on a Bluff,” directed by Charles Lamont, for it deals with a homebuilder’s efforts to build a house on the top of a hill. Also the activity of a realtor with less scruples than ingenuity is a factor in the clever little comedy. EDWIN CLAPP SHOES Harris & Frank ARE Headquarters FOR Palm Beach AND Tropical Suits Flannel Trousers AND Outing Togs Moderate Prices Jimmy Aubrey and his manager, Leon Lee, gathered their company together and journeyed up to Bishop, Cal., for a week's vacation and at the same time they will write the third comedy that “Joimes" is to appear in, he already having finished “The Buttiniski” and “The Lobbygod,” and is well caught up on his releases so a seven-day rest won’t do any of ’em any harm, so to speak. Manager Lee is getting ready to start a national campaign to put “Jimmy” over. He will be as heavily advertised as Harold Lloyd and other funsters. * * * Cuddles Stern played Bambino in “The Woman of Bronze” that has Clara Kimball Young as the star of a feature production, and “Cuddles” had ’em in tears down at the California Theatre the other day. Here is a child artist.