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Douglas Fairbanks plays a game of his own invention called "Goose." Among his constant victims is Sid Grauman, Hollywood theatre owner. Last week when Mr. & Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) left Hollywood for Manhattan, Jokester Grauman hired Jo-Jo, a trained cinema goose whose accomplishments are worth $25 a day; dressed him fastidiously, left him in the Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque...
Shrew. In Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford made plans to appear together in an all-talking color-picture version of The Taming of the Shrew...
Coquette (United Artists). In this dialog adaptation of an immensely successful stage play, Mary Pickford was faced with certain difficulties. The girl in the play is 18. Mary Pickford is known to be 36 and generally believed to be 39. The girl in-the play, emotionally mature, is a-passionate, complex personality. Mary Pickford has-created most of her reputation playing girls whose naivete was proved as thoroughly by their, actions-as by their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes...
...from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...
...juvenile on Broadway he found that public disorder could be profitable. In 1907 he married one Anna Beth Sully, daughter and heir of a soapmaker who stipulated that Fairbanks must superintend his boiling grease-vats. Six months later Fairbanks returned to the stage, was divorced in 1918, married Mary Pickford in 1920. Once, locked out of his room in the Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, he climbed up the face of the building. In Hollywood he is called "Doug," his wife Miss Pickford. Social leaders, they dance only with each other. She looks after the family accounts. After making his first picture...