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...sick or elderly citizens to enjoy years of leisure.* Sample of California's growth: Beverly Hills, picturesquely perched above Los Angeles, from 674 in 1920 to 17,428 in 1930, a gain of 2,485%. Some Beverly Hillers: Funnyman Will Rogers, Cinemactors Fairbanks, Barrymore, Gilbert, Mix, Lloyd, Cinemactresses Pickford, Davies. Cinemakers Laemmle, Mayer, Lasky, De Mille...
Audiences were full of praise for Jo Mielziner for his glowering 19th Century interiors; and for the delicate reticence of Miss Gish's acting. Not since 1913 has Cinemactress Gish been on Broadway. At that time she inhabited the same boarding house as Cinemactress Mary Pickford, who got her a small part in David Belasco's A Good Little Devil. Soon afterward David Wark Griffith took her in charge, well-nigh beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister...
Acting (female): Mary Pickford, for Coquette (United Artists...
Engaged. Marilyn Miller, 32, actress, Sally, Sunny, Rosalie; and one Michael Farmer, of London, Paris; at Manhattan. Twice married (Frank Carter, killed; Jack Pickford, divorced), she said her new fiance was "wealthy and an Irishman...
Shocked were ladies of the Spanish court, and particularly Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie (granddaughter of Britain's arch-stickler, Queen Victoria) when Miss Mary Pickford and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks were actually received on terms of cordial and convivial intimacy by sporting King Alfonso XIII's closest pal, exalted Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba, Constable of Navarre and 14 times a grandee of Spain (TIME...