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Along with Will Rogers, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, last week President Hoover made a radio appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Red Cross Drought Relief fund. Said he:"It is unthinkable that any of our people should suffer from hunger or want. The heart of the nation will not permit it. It is to the heart of the nation that I am appealing tonight. I urge all of my fellow countrymen to contribute promptly and in accordance with their means" It was generally agreed that the President's speech sounded more like reading-from...
Engaged. Jack Pickford, 33, film actor, brother of Mary Pickford Fairbanks, onetime husband (1921) of the late Olive Thomas and (1922-27) of Marilynn Miller; and Mary Mulhern. 22, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl; at Salinas, Calif...
...dark house in Santa Monica, Calif. A man came down the stairway. The burglars held him up, then one ejaculated: "Oh, gee, it's Doug Fairbanks! I hate to do this but I need the money." Fairbanks chatted with him, gave him $100 cash, ushered him out. Upstairs, Mary Pickford Fairbanks listened silently, hid her expensive jewels...
Last week Mary Pickford began to disband the staff of technicians who have worked for her for years. She let go Abbe Rahm, her head camera man and Arthur Zoellner, exploitation chief. She will not make her future films, if any, as an actress-producer, but simply as an actress, bossed by Joseph Schenck...
Asked, "which is your favorite movie hero?" Miss Mary Pickford used to reply demurely: "Mickey Mouse...