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Continuing this delightfully intimate series on Hollywood notables and their friends — ivhom they select and why
that it's a bright, joyous companionship between the two.
I've known Charhe in the midst of some of his domestic troubles to go over to Doug's house, assume a jaunty air, demand a game of charades, and never say one word about the things that were worrying him. Doug knows just how to handle the situation. Ten to one he knows what Charlie is going through, but he doesn't let Charlie think of his troubles if he can help it. He will begin an argument, or start a game of some kind. But if Charlie wants to sit silently, that's all right with Doug. He and Mary Pickford will keep up a running fire of talk until Charlie pays attention to them and begins to take part; or Doug, too, will go into a reflective mood, usually, however, pacing up and down, as Doug finds it hard to sit still unless he's con versing. Charlie is the moody one. Doug is pretty even.
If either does tell his troubles, he does it in joking fashion, often with a little whimsical twist. Or if advice is wanted, the matter will be discussed in business-like fashion.
For, after all, this friendship, joyous and light as it appears on the surface, has its roots deep in the soil of two natures which, at bottom, take things very seriously.
Their friendship is endlessly significant to the whole industry, too, inasmuch as it was Doug who persuaded Charlie to go into the United Artists concern, which organization was the first big step taken away from a sordid view of things on the part of the producers, and a big step toward a much higher standard of literary excellence than had prevailed in the motion picture industry up to that time.
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Charlie Chaplin and Doug Fairbanks are good friends because they never agree! When Charlie wants a bit of friendly advice or a good argument he can always gel either at Pickfair.
Before Dorothy Sebastian entered the movies she was a rabid Alice Terry fan. In her first picture she met Alice, and their friendship has been unbroken ever since that incident.
CLARA BOW'S CHUM IS HER SECRETARY
THINK it refleas great credit on Clara Bow, both as to her brains and her character, that her chum is also her secretary. It must take great powers of diplomacy to get along with a secretary who is also a bosom friend. And I'm not kidding, either. Fancy trying to scold a secretary for forgettmg a lot of telephone calls, or omitting to answer letters, while all the time out of her eyes is shining the words, "Remember, I'm your bosom friend. How can you scold me.'" [Continued on page 93}
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