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...rumor that cropped up most frequently in Hollywood during the past decade was that United Artists Corp., once one of the most profitable of Hollywood companies, would be sold. U.A. was set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. (Birth of a Nation) Griffith to distribute films made independently by each of the partners. Now Fairbanks and Griffith were dead, Mary Pickford made no pictures and Chaplin almost none. All that the company had to offer a prospective buyer was a famous name and a system of 32 film distribution exchanges...
Died. Sidney Olcott, 76, pioneer movie director (From the Manger to the Cross), who helped guide film Newcomers Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino; in Hollywood...
...letter was signed by B. P. Schulberg who, at 57, had reaped the rewards of a full Hollywood producing career: money, enemies and some impressive credentials. He was the man who discovered Clara Bow, dubbed Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart," helped to form United Artists, produced Wings, which won the first Academy Award. As Paramount's production boss from 1925 to 1932, he had drawn $9,500 a week...
...Mary Pickford, 55, and the Gish sisters, Dorothy, 51, and Lillian, 52, posed together at a Manhattan restaurant, looking not at all as if some 40 years had passed since they first brought girlish graces and golden curls to the early U.S. screen. Even Mary's dialogue sounded familiar: "We girls get together as often as we can. We belong to each other, in the never-never land and into tomorrow...
...classic "The Water of Arsoli." It should be read with Henry Van Dyke's beautiful story, The Source. Red roses to TIME for its illuminating, lightning-streak last sentence on the burial of Zhdanov. And a bunch of fresh Michigan ragweed for your cut of the unsuspecting Mary Pickford...