Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

15 ^IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM I PERSONALITIES | -^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ ANOTHER MASTERPIECE FOR BEAUMONT Irene Rich is the latest addition to the cast selected to support John Barrymore in the Warner Brothers screen version of Clyde Fitch’s play, “Beau Brummel.” Mr. Barrymore is expected to arrive in Los Angeles from New York on Sept. 18, at which time production of the feature will be started. Another leading player to be seen in the cast is Mary Astor, who will portray the part of Lady Margery Alvanley. The play, which will be directed by Harry Beaumont, has been adapted for the screen by Dorothy Farnum. PHONOGRAPH INSPIRATION Finis Fox is using a phonograph in his cutting room while cutting and editing his latest production, “Bag and Baggage”, featuring Gloria Grey. Finis says the music from the phonograph acts as an inspiration to him, while editing the films, but it is more or less of a handicap when he is directing. Finis runs records of heavy operas when editing the tragic scenes, but puts on jazz records when cutting the comedy episodes. DANGEROUS DAYS AHEAD Vola Vale has received an offer to go to Mexico City and play the leading feminine role in an elaborate screen production glorifying the late bandit chieftain, Villa, which a group of Mexican financiers are planning to produce. Miss Vale is fearful that the screen players might all get killed off by Mexican rebels before the drama could be completed. Francis McDonald’s latest gag: According to some people cuckoos aren’t always in the clocks. USED FOTOPLAYER at a Bargain Price! 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Production of the feature is expected to start within the very near future, following the erection of an interior set of a Viennese character which, according to report, will occupy more than one half of the Warner stage which is conceded to be the largest in the world. HE DOESN’T DESPISE GIRLS Otto Lederer is a sort of a sun worshiper, he just loves to let the rays of Old Sol beam down upon him, perhaps this fancy came to him through his years of working in pictures, for Otto has been following this good old game of make-believe for nearly ten years as a stellar performer, and has played every kind of a character from an Indian to a Hebraic gentleman, who knows the value of the good old American dollar, and schemes and figures first how to earn it, and then how to keep it. His stage experience has stood him in good stead, for many a time he has been called upon to inject pieces of business of which he has made a life time study, they have fitted into his screen work perfectly. Richard Dix has been forced to give up his plans for a short vacation, upon the completion this week of his leading role in C. B. De Mille’s “Ten Commandments.” Dix had planned a hurried vacation to Des Moines, Iowa, but the Paramount powers have decreed that he go at once to Arizona, the locale of his next picture, a Zane Grey story. * * * James Morrison is in New York City enacting the principal male role in “On the Banks of the Wabash” a screen adaptation of the one-time popular ballad, which is being filmed for Vitagraph by Com. J. Stuart Blackton. EXTREMES OF FASHION While Ralph Lewis was wearing some very dilapidated and shopworn clothes in his featured role in “Born of a Cyclone”, Vera Lewis, who in private life is Mrs. Ralph Lewis, is appearing in stunning creations valued at thousands of dollars in her role of the fashionable society woman in “The Marriage Market”. Edward Dillon, directing Elaine Hammerstein for the Dillon Productions for Truart, has arrived at the Goldwyn Studios from New York and has already begun casting for “Drums of Jeopardy” starring Miss Hammerstein. The actress has already left New York and will arrive in Los Angeles within a few days when she will commence her work in the new Harold McGrath vehicle. * * * Following the lead of other producers, Director Laurence Trimble of the Trimble-Murfin Productions raided the comedy ranks in casting for his latest Strongheart picture, “The Love Master”, which will be released early in the fall. Harold Austin, the leading man, and John J. Richardson, who plays the heavy role, have both had extensive comedy experience. * * * Some of the Hollywood sheiks don’t need cars, they are so fast anyway. Vera Ward whispered this to us. GERTRUDE STEVENS Comedy Ingenue