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Hoot Gibson, who won his renown and wealth on the back of a bucking horse, finds his pleasure in the air. He, too, is the owner of a brace of planes, a high-speed runabout and a five-passenger cabin job. Hoot says operation and upkeep cost him $20,000 a year.
WHILE Al Jolson has not as yet taken to the air, he does have a weakness for automobiles — imported cars. He is reputed to have expended $68,000 for new vehicles during 1929Not long ago, the Mammy singer was driving past a salesroom. In the window, he espied a Mercedes-Benz sedan, the body of futuristic design.
Al skidded his Rolls-Royce roadster to a halt and dashed into the agency.
"Can you deliver that car to the wife before I get home at five?" he inquired breathlessly of the startled salesman.
'W-h-y, I guess so," replied the shocked one.
"Tell me how much it is and I'll write you a check now," said Al.
The price was $28,000. Al paid, and all of Hollywood's auto row wonders how the seller survived a heart
Richard Barthelmess employe a crew of two on his Pegasus. and whenever a holiday occurs he sets sail for Catalina with his wife andv^his two cronies, William Powell and Ronald Colman, as companions.
When the good ship Tiburon puts out to sea she frequently carries the ocean-loving Conrad Nagel. Conrad's hobby is also an expensive one, for he keeps a crew of six men aboard throughout the entire year.
John Barrymore''s yacht, the Infanta, cost him a quarter of a million dollars, and he spends another fifty thousand every year for maintenance.
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ARION DAVIES contributes $100,000 a year of her halfmillion income to charities — and most of her gifts are to organizations or institutions caring for children. She is the fairy Godmother to the war orphans and offspring of crippled veterans.
Mary Pickford is another who finds her greatest pleasure in the company of the little ones.
"The most enjoyable days I ever spent in a studio were those during the making of Sparrows five years ago, a story in which I mothered nine of them, ' she once told me. '
It is her ambition to adopt two — a boy and a girl — when she retires from the screen.
Afternoons when Mary is not before the cameras or busy with her Actors' Relief Fund which cares for the ill and [Continued on page 77}