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Secrets (United Artists). "In every marriage there are secrets-secret joys, secret sorrows-which only one man and one woman know." When Mary Pickford voices this tender aphorism toward the end of her first picture in two years, she is an old lady explaining to her grown-up children why she and her elderly husband (Leslie Howard) wish to go out West and spend their declining years quietly with each other. The secrets of which their children are ignorant are well known to the audience...
...served in Washington for 30 years by the time his wife explains to their children about the secrets. It cannot be said that Secrets is a powerful picture or a thoughtful one, but it is a graceful romantic narrative in the current full-length fashion, remarkable because Mary Pickford acts so well, still looks so pretty. Some idea of Mary Pickford's career can be suggested by remembering that she had been a cinema star for five years before Adolph Zukor in 1914 acquired her services, which started him on the road to control of the whole cinema industry...
Died. John Carl Smith (Jack Pickford), 36, onetime film actor, younger brother of Gladys Mary Smith (Mary Pickford); of progressive multiple neuritis when it reached the brain centre; in Paris...
...Hollywood set, a 150-lb. studio lamp fell, struck unconscious, badly bruised Mary Pickford. Husband Douglas Fairbanks quickly revived...
...which he was riding to his apartment, atop Manhattan's Lyceum Theatre, got caught between floors, Producer Daniel Frohman read his newspaper from 1 a. m. until the janitor rescued him at 10 a. m. Said he: "The first time I got caught in it I had Mary Pickford instead of a newspaper with...