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...from Burbank before dawn without breakfast. Headwinds, rain and fog cut his speed to 212 m. p. h., brought him to Cleveland an hour behind the course record but in plenty of time to win the $4,500 first prize and receive the Bendix Trophy from Cinemactress Mary Pickford. Said he, grinning: "I guess I'll be able...
...stouter but no less jaunty Douglas Fairbanks returned to Hollywood for the first time since the news of divorce proceedings put his name back into the headlines. But to inquisitive newshawks he would say nothing about the suit filed against him in California by his wife Mary Pickford, nor the suit filed in Britain by Lord Ashley against Lady Sylvia Ashley in which he appears as corespondent. Was he going abroad again? ''I do not expect to go back to England...
...hours later Douglas Fairbanks met Mary Pickford on a Beverly Hills street corner, got into her car, spent the after noon driving. That night he had dinner with her at Pickfair. One other guest was present. Afterwards Fairbanks took his hostess for a long moonlight drive alone. Said Mary Pickford : "Yes, I saw Douglas. Whether I shall see him again is in the lap of the gods...
Next day Fairbanks lunched at Pickfair, went driving with Mary Pickford in the afternoon, dined with her. Said she: "I am so very glad that 'Doug' is back. His work always means so much to him. I am sure he will be happy here ? now. The future must work itself out and it will. I just cannot bring myself to talk about these things that lie so near to my heart." For the weekend Fairbanks drove off alone to his ranch near San Diego, thought better of it, sped back to Pickfair to get his wife...
...Mary Pickford is flesh of our flesh and of good red blood, not blue. Torontonians cannot tolerate an affront to her, particularly when it comes from an alien to the land of the Maple...