Motion Picture Magazine (Nov 1916-Jan 1917)

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f)m SCREEN pTAiy^ V^/ "and* <//7v -THEIR J TMJ° How the Heavenly Stars Have Endowed Our Screen Favorites The Solar Biologies of Some of Our Well-known Players (While it is indisputably true that heredity, environment and association have a great influence upon one's character, in the present series an endeavor will be made to show the specific planetary influences which have governed many of our screen stars.) MARY PICKFORD, Born April 8, 1893 (Read these articles carefully, because if you were born on these dates, the facts may apply to you as well as to Miss Pickford and Mr. Williams) The Stellar Constellation at this time — Aries — saw the Moon in Aquarius, with Mercury in Scorpio, and Venus influenced, •only slightly, by Aries. If only, while we were still young enough, we could look ahead, peer into the future, and arrange our lives as we would ultimately wish to have them! And lucky Mary Pickford, that she would appear to have done this very thing. Probably while still a child-actress, in short skirts and hair down her back, she firmly determined to reach the very top of her profession ; and tho the medium of the screen may differ from that of the footlights, the result is much the same thing. Not a soul on earth can deny that she has become a leader, that she has reached the very top of her profession. That same quality of leadership, the dominant sense of taking things into her own hands, is one of Miss Pickford's most prominent characteristics ; indeed, it is probably her chief one. She will countenance interference from no one ; she is complete mistress of herself, and she is always quite willing to stand or fall by her own opinions. Whatever trials or difficulties she may get into, she does not try to put the blame upon others, but is quite willing to shoulder the whole responsibility herself. She could not possibly be a placid, contented marcher in the ranks ; 'tis a