Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

Mary Bids Good-bye to Curlhood (Continued from page 59) thinned several times, but it still made my head look too big for the rest of me. And I think when there's any part of a person's dress or appearance that attracts attention away from the whole, it's wrong, don't you?" No casual experiment, no whim of the moment, this bob of Mary Pickford's! It is the penalty of great fame like hers — a fame that can never come to a movie star again — that she may not do as she pleases but must be always thinking of her public and its wishes. For the sake of her fans Mary Pickford stayed a little girl as long as she could. But even Mary had to grow up sometime. I think that it was her mother's death that determined Mary to lay aside her Peter Pannish youth and become a woman on the screen as she was in life. Lighthearted curls don't go, somehow, with tragedy. Will it, I wonder, make any difference in her career? Will her fans forgive her for the loss of the beloved Eighteen? Her small chin lifts defiantly. "If a career that has meant years of hard work like mine can depend on a — on a hair, it's high time I found it out," said Mary Pickford, her eyes a blue blaze, "but I don't believe it's just my curls people have liked. It's something else we love in people — something inside. If I give them a good picture, if I amuse them, they won't care how I wear my hair. The grown-up pictures I've made before weren't so successful because they weren't such good stories, that's all." Is there the faintest shadow of doubt in her voice? We wander through the gracious rooms of Pickfair and whenever we pass a mirror Mary's eyes seek her despoiled head anxiously. As she talks, her fingers go up, missing the lost curls. And all subjects, somehow, lead back to bobbed hair. Her trip, for instance. getting doug's o. k. "TT WAS what my friends abroad said A that made up my mind," Mary confides. " In Europe everyone has short hair, except poor Queen Mary. She has to uphold tradition. When I went to Baron de Meyer in Paris to have him photograph me, he urged me to cut my hair. Of course I asked Douglas's permission," she added quaintly, "and of course he said to do as I pleased. I don't think he expected I really would get a bob, and I didn't expect to myself when a friend took me to her barber in Chicago. But when I'd talked to him, and tried on bobbed wigs, she said, 'Mary, why don't you get it over with now?' and in fifteen minutes it was done. I had it cut shoulder-length so that I can make it looked bobbed or pin it up for evening, so — •" She turns her head this way, that, studying her reflection in the Georgian mirrror opposite. I sense suddenly the sadness her fans will feel when they see America's Sweetheart without her golden curls. They will be sad, not because a motion picture star has bobbed her hair, but because youth must grow up, and Cinderella never did find her Prince, and fairy stories are not true after all. 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