Word: pickford
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...terribly out of my element, terribly at sea. I know what one woman?Mary?can do and I can imagine what 10,000 women can do. "I am married to an organization, you know, Mary Pickford, but when I married I insisted on retaining my maiden name...
...became only a) chain-driven wheel rotating under the arena roof. Who could tell tomorrow from yesterday? Not the pedaling juggernauts. For all they knew, Time had reversed its gears and left them to pump on and on into the past. Douglas Fairbanks offered $200 for a sprint; Mary Pickford's starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept jumping up and down in his seat. It was Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting the Ovis poll. He studied his program and laughed at some of the names. Were Grimm and Winter...
...Mary Pickford, Marion Davies, and now Patsy Ruth Miller have all been caught throwing ripe tomatoes, and as yet they haven't been punished for it. What we did wasn't nearly so bad anyway, because it never found its way into the movies. If it happens again we shall take the whole matter up with Will Hays...
...asked Mary Pickford how she felt about it and she said, 'You see, Laurette, I'm so little and our house is so big that I prefer to be called Mrs. Fairbanks at home. It makes me feel more important when I have to speak to the butler...
Here we are well into the second paragraph and we haven't said a serious word about Miss Dempster yet. She escaped from a Mary Pickford tendency to fight in the streets early in the picture, and acted with reasonable sanity and dignity from then on. She is really too lovely altogether to go clowning all over the screen with such a master of the jongoleur's art as W.C. Fields. Fields, by the way, contributes his own blundering broad-faced type of humor which this department has always enjoyed enormously. It is to be regretted that he falls...