Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

16 Bright Hints For Human Beings By “US” or “WE” immuniim mini mini nun THE CENTURY MARK CHEATING HERSELF THE SHORT CUT With an even hundred productions to his credit, George D. Baker, dean of picture directors, is to be signally honored at a George D. Baker Centennial to be celebrated on the Goldwyn lot with the final cutting of Balzac’s “The Magic Skin.” After many years on the stage as an actor, director and manager, he started to direct John Bunny and Flora Finch for Vitagraph in the old one-reel days, and later when Vitagraph started multiple reel features he was chosen to handle Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno. “Tarantula” was the biggest hit of these two stars which he wrote and produced. Later Baker joined Metro and rose to the ranks of director general of the west coast studios, where Nazimova’s “Revelation” was considered his supreme achievement. More recently he has been in the east and traveling in Europe. He came to the coast for Achievement Films, Inc., to make the Balzac story for Goldwyn release at the Goldwyn studio, and in checking over his record he discovered that “The Magic Skin” would make his hundredth production. The Fairbanks twins, Madeline and Marion, who have so endeared themselves to the public, first through their work on the screen as the “Thanhouser Kids,” and more recently on the stage with the Ziegfeld Follies, “The Music Box Revue,” and as the stars of “Two Little Girls in Blue” are to separate for the coming season. Marion is to be a George M. Cohan star in “Little Nellie Kelley” and negotiations are under way whereby Madeline is to be starred in J. Kenneth Stambaugh’s next film production, tentatively titled “The Delicate Touch,” which is to enter filming shortly at one of the studios in Hollywood. * * * James Farley, the well-known heavy, has been cast to play the part of McCall in “Wild Bill Hicks,” the latest effort from the pen of William S. Hart. This famous western “bad” man, of course, will play the lead in the vehicle that brings him back again on the screen. By Marshall Lorimer She knew how to pique every fibre of man. And she played every string of her fiddle. The poor fool never knew just how it began — When the whole thing was o’er ’twas a riddle. She knew what she wanted, and led him to think That he was the goal of her passionate desire; Her object, of course, was to see if he’d sink To bottomless pits of her illicit fire; She kissed, and caressed him, and made him approve Of each little whim that she had in her mind, ’Til he in his eagerness entered the groove Where thoughts of good women are left far behind. She played out the game — now she’s wondering WHY He fails to respond to the hopes in her eye? She now realizes the man whom she duped Is not the same being who willingly stooped To throw away conscience and honor awhile, So that he would gain those strange joys in her guile. It is ever so — to the woman who cheats — She plays the extremes that come through conceits, And presently, when she believes she has won, The WORM crawls away and the comedy’s done! Trying to find a real crazy type of house for his summer ‘shack’ at Los Turas Club, Bryant Washburn has asked several people of late what architect to get. One man said seriously: “Bryant, know the very chap! I'm sure he could design just the kind of a house you describe.” “Great”, said Bryant, who is soon to appear in three of Ben Wilson’s productions for Grand-Asher, “Where is he?” “That’s the trouble,” said the other, scratching his ear, “the poor chap is locked up at Agnew Insane Asylum!” For many years there has been a dire necessity for a TRANSIT OPENING between Culver City and Hollywood proper. At last the dream has been realized and the good angel in question is no other than MR. J. M. MARTIN. This gentleman, knowing the needs of thousands who have had to go all the way into Los Angeles to get to Culver City, and vice versa, brought to bear his sagacity and influence with the City Council to remedy the inconvenience and loss of time to thousands employed in the various moving picture studios. The result is that he and his associates have acquired a fifty-year franchise to operate either a track system or vehicular between the above-mentioned cities. This organization will be known as THE HOLLY-CULVER CITY TRANSIT COMPANY. Beginning October 1st, THREE ALLSTEEL BUSSES will ply between the dual “bergs.” They will be the latest things in safety, speed and comfort and, when you begin to realize how much time you can save in a day by patronizing them, and when you also note that the cost will be but fractional of what you save otherwise, then without a doubt you will be a steady patron. J. M. Martin is president and general manager, while Mr. N. W. Cannell is secretary and treasurer. These gentlemen deserve a great deal from our community. Let’s see that their labors have not been spent in vain. Laying aside her motion picture wardrobe, Peggy Cartwright, eightyear-old film starlet, has donned her ballet costume and is this week presenting a novelty dance number in the atmospheric prologue of “Trilby” at Loew’s State. This is not the youngster’s first appearance before the footlights, for two years ago she toured the Orpheum circuit in a special dancing act with her brother Dick acting as her partner. She is a pupil of Edith Lindsay, well-known instructor of dancing in Hollywood. * * * House Peters, who is enacting the leading role in Metro’s production of “Held to Answer,” recently learned from his tailor that he requires the same measurements as Jack Dempsey, who is also a patron of said tailor.