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...listening to the stories which his father, a Colonel, would read aloud by the light of a lone, economical candle. Later be became reporter, playwright, saw a movie in a nickel theatre. His first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps...
...Aries man is immoral, it is in a conventional way. But he is honest. Both men and women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck...
Died. Gavin McNab, 58, onetime hotel clerk, then lawyer, prominent Democratic leader of California, legal adviser to Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, Jack Dempsey, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Mary Pickford; suddenly, in San Francisco...
...Robin Hood theme has been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd...
...story is the usual merry epic of a Fairbanks production. It begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful...