Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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Mary Bids Good-bye to Curlhood {Continued from page 87) A GESTURE OF SELF-ASSERTION HER small hands, unjeweled except for the slim wedding ring, are restless. It must be a strange thing, I think suddenly, to be Mary Pickford, and to live always caught in the golden cage of her own Fame, stared at by curious eyes, followed by crowds. I think that bobbing her hair was a symbol to her, to prove to herself that she could do as she pleased. She is speaking now of the boy Crown Prince of Italy whom they met on their trip. "He is only twenty-three," she says, "but everything he did, he did as though he felt that he was not a person so much as the representative of the whole Italian people." The inference of comparing herself to royalty somehow does not provoke any thought of incongruity. For it is undeniably true that the world does regard Mary as emblematic of the screen, and so her conduct cannot be guided solely by personal considerations. She stands for far more than herself. Everything that Mary Pickford does, she must do, not as herself but as the representative of the whole motion picture profession. When Valentino grew a Van Dyck beard, thousands of newspapers wrote editorials on the subject. When the Pickford curls fall, it will be a matter for discussion the world over. But there is only one person whose judgment Mary cares for. "What," I hesitated, "did Doug say when he saw your new bob?" A smile flashes to her lips, secret, shy. But she answers casually, "Oh, he just said, ' So you really did it ! ' " After all, even a famous movie star has a right to keep some things to herself. We shall never know exactly what Douglas Fairbanks said to Mary when she showed him her golden head without the eighteen ringlets. But, we imagine whatever it was, it was quite satisfactory. Doris Dawson and the cup given her by the studio electricians in token of their electing her the most popular player in Hollywood— by a unanimous volt NEATEST $T^ ** J ^geles *-flwfo Miss Ralston's latest photoplay is "The Sawdust Paradise" ... a Paramount Picture. Eight fine fast trains to choose from between Chicago — St. Louis and California; including the Los Angeles Limited*; San Francisco Overland Limited*; Gold Coast Limited; Continental Limited; Pacific Limited; Pacific Coast Limited. *63ftwrtr*322! C. J. Collins, Gen. Pass. Agt., Omaha, Nebr. Geo. R. Bierman, Gen. Pass. Agt., Los Angeles, Calif, UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAXD ROUTE 89