Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

10 Under th BY THE MAN THE RIGHT MAN AT LAST Bernard McConville, one of the first well known scenario writers of the motion picture industry, is now affiliated with Universal Pictures Corporation at Universal City, as supervising editor of all Jewel and super-Jewel productions. Mr. McConville occupies an envied position in motion pictures. He has the distinction of having written for practically every big star in the field at some time or other during the ten years or more he has gained in this work, will prove especially valuable in his new connection where he will be called upon not alone to pass judgment on material that is submitted but also to lend his assistance to the writers who are engaged in preparing Jewel and Super-Jewel continuities. THEY’RE IN FULL SWING With Jack Mulhall and Pauline Garon in the leading roles Harry Cohn, general manager of the Waldorf studios, has completed the cast for “The Marriage Market” an Evelyn B. Campbell novelette which will be made into a six reel feature for C.B.C. release. Among the notables chosen are Shannon Day, Vera Lewis, Marc Robbins, Kate Lester, Mayme Kelso and Jean de Briac, “The Marriage Market” will be produced on a lavish scale under the direction of Edward J. Le Saint. “Forgive and Forget’ has just been completed at the Waldorf studios under the direction of Howard Mitchell with Wyndham Standing, Pauline Garon, Philo McCullough, Josef Swickard, Vernon Steel, Lionel Belmore, Estelle Taylor and William Scott. Harry Cohn is conducting a nation wide scenario contest to get scripts which can be released under the titles “Innocence” and “Pal o’Mine”. The production of these two will follow “The Marriage Market”. Virginia Warwick is dividing her time between comedies and dramas and making a hit with directors and producers alike, for she is well suited for any ingenue role that calls for an acting part, and especially where a leading lady has to wear stunning gowns. e Magnify! SHE’LL LEARN IN TIME! “Boy, page a press-agent!” Didja ever before in all of your life hear of a real, honest-to-goodness motion picture actress who, after experiencing a perfectly good robbery, fail to publicize it? This is, however, what has actually happened. A number of weeks ago Miss Charlotte Du Puis left her home on North Wilton place, Hollywood, for the Metro studios and returning in the late afternoon found the house in a topsy-turvy condition, dresser drawers upturned, carpets rolled back and valuables missing totaling nearly $5,000, among which included evening dresses, silken lingerie, a diamond ring, seal coat, and a Kolinsky fur cape. Miss Du Puis, who literally rolled into fame when, in her first part with Charles Brabin in “Six Days” at the Goldwyn studio, she was called upon to dramatically hurl herself down a long flight of steps, has received a more than attractive offer to be featured in a new production which is to be staged in a local Hollywood studio by Eastern capital. Hobart Henley, feature director at Universal City, is to follow “The Flirt” one of his biggest successes, with another Booth Tarkington story. He has commenced choosing his cast for “The Turmoil”. Edward T. Lowe who wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” continuity, adapted the story to the screen. mg Glass BEHIND ‘CLOSE-UP’ MC DERMOTT MEGAPHONING Charles Gerard, screen “heavy” and character man, has been added to the cast of First National’s “Her Temporary Husband,” a farcical comedy to go into production next week with John McDermott directing. Gerard will enact the serio-comic role of “Clarence Topping”. The latest addition to the cast is well known to screen patrons having been a film actor for many years. He has played in big productions made by almost all of the West Coast producing companies. His most noted successes were in “Little Miss Optimist”, “The Double Standard”, “The New Moon”, “The Isle of Conquest”, “Something to Do” and many others. He has an extensive stage career before going into films, both in America and in England. He was born in Ireland; is a graduate of Dublin University and was a successful star in musical comedy in London. The cast of “Pier Temporary Husband, which is now almost complete comprises Sidney Chaplin, Owen Moore, Sylvia Bresmer, Tully Marshall and Chuck Reisner. SCOTT SIDNEY BUSY A new Christie comedy went into production this week and it is evident that the story will be of potent appeal to the movie audiences in all civilized countries where fat people exist. The story depicts all the modern methods of deight reducing, plus several novel ideas contributed by the scenario staff. Babe London, Christie’s corpulent comic, at the sight of various reducing mediums including boiling-pots, whacking-tables and steam-vats, lost about twenty pounds worrying over the possibility that some of the contraptions might work. She feels that if she becomes a lightweight her salary will be impaired. Still she claims that a steam-vat, like love, provokes humor from all those who are not in it. Dorothy Devore is being starred in this new farce under the direction of Scott Sidney. Myrtle Stedman has a new one for Close-Up: There is one business that everybody likes, and that’s somebody elses.