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...Duke of Sutherland, who stopped with his Duchess two years ago in Beverly Hills at "Pickfair," backed up Atholl's assertion last week that, "by our laws concerning lotteries we have made ourselves the laughing stock of the world...
...that such devotion was a mistake, Mary Pickford exclaimed: "We figure that our lives are too short as it is." In 1930 Fairbanks, fond of traveling, went globe trotting alone. Last week he wired her from London that she would have to pay for the upkeep of ''Pickfair," their Beverly Hills home. To the Press, she wept, confirmed the separation, hinted at divorce. Divorced. John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, "Millionaire Explorer"; by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden. 34; Chicago socialite once previously married; in Reno. Died. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 46, globular oldtime cinemactor; of a heart attack...
Hollywood rattles along about the difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...