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Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form...
Sparrows. Mary Pickford is back in one of her twelve-year-old ragamuffin roles. This time she is little "Mama Mollie," that maternal wisp of a girl who battles for a tribe of smudgy-faced, curly-haired, innocent-eyed orphans against the cruelty of one Grimes, keeper of a baby farm in ' the swampy southlands. Mr. Grimes has a half-witted wife, and belongs to the Charles Dickens-school of characters...
...Douglas Fairbanks saw the working print. In the gospel according to St. Luke, there are passages about the lowly sparrow who is not lost sight of in the eyes of God. In the film Mary gathers her little "sparrows" to her heart. Said Mr. Fairbanks: "Even without Miss Pickford it would still be a great picture...
...Present were Leon Trotzky, Mary Pickford Fairbanks, D. Fairbanks...
...only does Metro-Goldwyn waste Jack Pickford on an attempt to do him justice but the Harvard Dramatic Club forgets the plays of Prague and Harbin and points cast to do its own Brattleian homage to this Great God Brown. Surely the indignation or scorn of honest laughter of the Jones, the Cabots and the Smiths is more than just justified...