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For months on end Miss Pickford was content to idle at Pickfair, but now she is charged with renewed energy.
Tottyanna Turns "Coquette"
Mary Pickford discards rags for orchid chiffon in her new picture, and changes her screen self to match the critical turn in her career.
B$ Myrtle Gebhart
HOUGH the fact that Mary Pickford had discarded curls and gingham was common knowledge, I scarcely expected the vision which burst upon me when I peered into her dressing room.
A whirlwind of orchid chiffon, high-heeled slippers, pirouetting. A very short bob in a symmetrical marcel lay close to a little head held high. Outflung arms were encircled with pearls ; a diamond caught the light.
"Like me?" She slipped into an ermine jacquette. "I do !"
I could only gasp. Where was Raggedy Ann? Even her loved heart-shaped face looked different. Eyes that used to be rounded were saucily slanted.
Oh, Cinderella was indeed ready for the party, as chic and impish as any flapper of the furious films.
On the set Mary enacted a scene of cajolery. In her flirtation there was a flick of sarcasm, an ironic eyebrow, a disdainful mone, challenging eyes eloquent with a language all their
Photo by Bahmn
own — arrogance, enticement, mockery.
I watched, startled. "America's Sweetheart," the very air about her electric with — that appeal designated by initials.
"You have — ■ — ■" It didn't seem quite right, somehow, to say it. She laughed, delighted. "Those skirts! Shocking ! I remember that Doug wouldn't let you wear 'em short when you dressed up."
"Perhaps," her newly articulate eyebrows arched, "had they been more attractive, he wouldn't have objected."
The skirts ? Or the general ensemble ?
Curiously, while in "Coquette" she challenges the Bows and the Whites on their own flapping ground, there is about Mary's debut a welcome freshness. Older than they, she yet has cherished her youth. Where they are already blase, she is naive.
A star of more years than it would be polite to enumerate, she possesses an artistry they, probably, can never hope to imitate. But that she also has, with her wealth of compounded talent, a youthful, unspoiled zest that will shame theirs, strikes me as something of a sort of anomaly.
Mary faces a Miss Pickford, as crisis. She has. Norma Besant, in definitely closed a
"Coquette." door. Will she be