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Celluloid Celebrities
By M. L. E.
Mary MacLaren indulges in her favorite whim, croquet, working hours at
the studio?
Jim Gorbett likes croquet, too, as a
studio diversion, but prefers to shoot
it, pool fashion.
Monroe Salisbury, in his "hours of
ease," seeks the briny deep, not for
inspiration, but for fish.
[F we could peep into Mary Pickford's mail bag some day without fear of difficulty with the Federal authorities, we would get an even better idea than we have now of the little star's popularity in this and foreign countries.
She is in daily receipt of letters from all over the world — from Sweden, Russia, Africa, Australia, and even Iceland. And none of the "fan" letters are more quaintly worded or express more unbounded admiration for her and her art than do those from the Flowery Kingdom of Japan — and the letters she receives from there are very flowery.
One from an admirer in Tokio smacks of vers libre and futuristic poetry and is to the effect that —
"My Dear Mrs. Pickford.
I cannot write English well. Please read me. I can very
like a Kinemato-graph and sometime I go to see. One day I went to the park, and saw your art. Flowers the like roses in the kinematograph and I do Consider it the world over the queen. I very like your art that is pretty. It is welcome in every part of the world. Is your arts welcome to many people in the Japan. Please give me your phote and letter. I am in the end to pray to a deity your health and happy. Bloom cherry's from Japan. I love you.
You are a cheerful woman. I like the cheerful woman. I am to desire earnestly.
An intimate friend of Yours."
PRISCILLA DKAN owns up to having three hobbies — hats, shoes and cooking. In her wardrobe . closet there is a tier of drawers devoted especially to chapeaux, and there is an overflow meeting on the top shelves. There are big hats and small hats, droopy hats and close-fitting hats. The latest arrival in the "lid family," as Priscilla calls the miscellany of headgear, is a small black straw turban with a jet pin sticking saucily out above one ear.
"I don't care much about the 'in-between' part of my wardrobe," says Priscilla, "if I can just have enough hats and shoes. ' '
As to the other part of her hobby, Priscilla tells this on herself :
"A newspaper man met me out at the studio and said to me: 'I imagine that you're the kind of girl who curls up in a rocker and eats chocolates when she gets home.' I said nothing to the contrary, because, you know, you must let newspaper people believe what they please about you. But the next day he came to interview me at my house — and when I opened the door, he thought at first glimpse that I was the maid. I had been baking biscuits, and I had had trouble with the oven, so I was mottled alternately with flour and soot. I took him out in the kitchen, and we finished the biscuits and the interview there. Next to making biscuits I like making fudge; but mother says you can't call that really cooking, She says it's just fussing around !"