Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1926)

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According to Harry Carr — catty IDONT know if you could really call this Christmas gift. . . . But anyhow, there is a coolness between two prominent Hollywood celebrities. Among her other Christmas preparations, Mary Pickford picked out a funny little suitcase for the FairbanksPickford wire-haired fox-terrier "Zorro" to give to their big St. Bernard "Robin." And accompanying it, she composed a very sarcastic dog note — really catty — for Zorro to carry to Robin on Christmas morning. It says that here's the Christmas ' present ; but because a body's big is no sign he's so much. Robin endured the insult in offended silence. Poor Mary ! Taught by sad experience, she began her Christinas buying early in November. "I have learned," she said sagely. "Every time I go Christmas shopping, having duly racked my brains to find something for everyone in the family, that my. task is endless. After I have found everything, along comes Jack. He doesn't know what to get Douglas; so he just airily takes one of my presents and says he will buy it from me and I can get another. Then along _ -comes Lottie ; and she takes the rest ; and T have to go do it all over again." But, at that, I dont think Mary minds it so much. She gives the most ad oral' Santa Clans gifts of anybody in Hollywood. "But, oh, oh," says Right here at Christmas picture and Douglas will have this big hoy of min do — wanting me Mary and Don_ playhouse that anybi In the course of making Douglas bought a famou "Llewellyn J. Morse" — one ships on the Pacific. Instea* having it fitted up as a giant floating There is some prospect that the old ship (f\ becomes a summer girl, may be taken P50 ported engaged to Pola Xegri. an identification. "The voung thence on a voyage around the world, fitted up as a pirate ship to advertise the picture. When Armenian Meets Pola jV/fiCHAEL Arlen can now consider himself duly initiated into the inner circle of Hollywood: he is reThis is no longer even man who is reported engaged to Pola Xegri" has merely come to mean that one is white, twenty-one (or thereabouts) more or less single ; and in good standing in the film colon}'. Pola"s house is undergoing one of its periodic and amazingly frequent rehabilitations : so she has taken a bungalow at the Ambassador Hotel: and Michael has taken a bungalow at the Ambassador Hotel: and both bungalows are -ide by each, so to speak. And then we all rein ember that Mr. Arlen in an interview. npon arrival in Hollywood, stated that he would like to marry a young lady of Hollywood : but he preferred that she should be foreign-born. Well . The Terrible Frenchman Interest in Mr. Arlen has. however, been almost lost owing to the terrific excitement over an illustrious and temperamental Remain de TirtoffErte. designer who was brought over sses and things for the Metro in dignified fury. . "Is a desert — barren of beauty. movies ? There is none, omen have no personality, em lack intelligence, wear clothes expressively. w I can go back to my beautiful Paris." lot all he said either. i. G-r-r-r. He simply sputtered. He e great — some magnificent clothes 115)