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Mary Pickford Film Corporation
announcing the formation of the MARY PICKFORD FILM CORPORATION, 1 want to first express my gratitude for the co-operation of the exhibitors, everywhere, and also for the generous response of the public in bringing success to my efforts and various creations on the screen. Surely without either no one can have progressed and in my instance our work together has been so full of happiness that it makes doubly treasured the success that has come to us.
^the selection of scenarios, the casting of companies, the direction, production and character creating of motion pictures I am sure that I have learned something every day and that I will keep on acquiring this knowledge. And that is just why 1 want to use it to the best advantage in guiding my own company which will now produce all of the plays in which 1 am to be seen. It is our purpose not only to give every detail of the Mary Pickford Film Corporation our unfaltering direction but to surround ourselves with the best brains, ability and skill in this wonderful art-industry.
will be our purpose and endeavor to make most complete, elaborate and art harmonizing productions — each of which is to stand out pre-eminently as a master work. The productions will be the best that are made. Each will have a cast of distinction, a direction of originality and creativeness, fine environment, its own especially written music — all with that dignity, simplicity and artistic ensemble that will make the best in motion pictures and attract the largest and most discriminating audiences. I want the Mary Pickford pictures to be seen in every theatre and play house in the country. NA/e are delighted with the arrangements and broad plan of distribution made by the Artcraft Pictures Corporation which has been formed to handle them.
ROMPTED by your encouragement of the past, and for which 1 feel that I owe so much to you in aiding me to reach an ambitious attainment, 1 feel now that with this incentive and with the ever present confidence with which you have approved and admired my work that I can now reach still higher, giving you the supreme of our art endeavor — but always depending on your affectionate interest, for which I am now and always.
Gratefully,