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Hollywood rattles along about the difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...
...favorite actors and actresses, Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge and Gloria Swanson gain the affections of both groups in that order. Then there is a difference of opinion. Douglas Fairbanks is, of course, the beau ideal of boyhood and Rodolph Mineralava Valentino, equally of course, the prince of girlish dreams...
Garrison's Finish. The usual racehorse story. The jockey is drugged, the barn burned, the steed stolen shortly before the race. In the accomplished hands of Jack Pickford and Madge Bellamy these wrinkled devices become almost credible...
Souls for Sale. Anyone who has ever tacked up a picture of Mary Pickford over the bureau or sighed as she looked first at Valentino and then at her husband, will be more than interested in this semi-official expose (winch means whitewashing) of Hollywood and its denizens. The actual processes that go to the making of a big film-the everyday life of stars, directors and camp followers-these are entertainingly and faithfully depicted. In fact about the only thing omitted is a close-up of the interior of, say, Mr. Ince's mind. Of course the only...
...Jack Pickford: "Prohibition agents arrested two men leaving my Los Angeles home and entering an auto carrying liquor. Two checks from me were in their pockets. I guess I shall be summoned to testify before the Grand Jury...