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Intangibles In London, Baron Stanley of Alderley sued for divorce after four years of marriage. The baron's lady: the Transatlantic Set's pastel blonde Sylvia, who was Lady Ashley before she succeeded Mary Pickford as the late, gymnastic Douglas Fairbanks' wife...
...conducting a Secret Amour with an earthy young damsel, and naturally the here, who would ordinarily be on his way to China, saves th Unsuspecting wife Three times from Certain Death. That a respectable film can be made with such a framework is a personal triumph for producer Mary Pickford, America's erstwhile sweetheart...
...more than 20 million. The mailbag bulged to 10,000 letters a day. The March of Dimes (a donation with a letter is suggested as the price of admission to the contest) collected something like $125,000. Listeners brightly guessed Elsa Maxwell, Maude Adams, Sister Kenny, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Pickford, Mary Garden. But still nobody guessed right. Last week Miss Hush tried to spill the beans...
Happy Ending. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, the feuding owners of United Artists, got together in a movie cutting room and made peace. U.A.'s income-largely because of their feuding-had reportedly slumped to $192,000 last year. They compromised on a new president, Gradwell L. Sears, who has been U.A.'s vice president since 1941. David 0. Selznick, who had been in at the start of the feud (TIME, Dec. 23), had sold out his U.A. share...
...Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...