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JACK PICKFORD SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
"Being a celebrity's brother and acquiring one's fame, second hand as it were, is commencing to wear on my iron nerves," said Jack Pickford, the clever young Paramount star who is now appearing at the Theatre in "The Spirit of '17", the other day.
He went on to tell of an incident that happened while he was watching his famous sister in "The Little Princess" at a motion picture theatre recently. Some worthy ladies behind him were discussing Mary; one in particular seeming to be an authority on the subject of the Pickford family in general and Jack in particular. Jack, like the mischievous lad he really is, thoroughly enjoyed hearing all about himself and family until suddenly he overheard this remark;
"They do say that the little brother. Jack ,who is about ten years old, is a regular terror. I heard he puts mice in Mary's slippers 'most every day or something. I saw him in 'The Dummy '-he looked quiet enough then, land knows, but you can't tell about those angelic looking children. ..."
"The rest was lost to me," Mr. Pickford said, chuckling, "for by the time she'd finished I was well outside the theatre, holding my sides and with tears of laughter running down my cheeks. Of course I know I have a young looking face and can, like Mary, make up as a child easily, but I had no idea the effect was so— er— striking !
"The fact of the matter is, that we have such good times at home all the time, and 'jolly' each other so much, that acting young is really not acting at all for us-althoough I want to place myself on record here and now as not guilty of putting mice in Mary's slippers. In fact, I never did do it."
When asked about his career, young Mr. Pickford became suddenly noncommittal and about as comm\inicative as the average sundial in the shade, refusing to expand even under the warm sunshine of our most beguiling smile.
We gleaned however, that he had made his debut in this world at Toronto, Canada, following it after very few years with a stage debut, playing child parts with Chauncey Olcott in "Peg Robin" and "The Three of Us," Jack spent his leisure hours in school, notably St. Francis Military Academy in New York City. He began his motion picture career in 1909 with the old Biograph company, since then, has spent most of his time at Hollywood, California, where he has made numerous Paramount pictures, appearing usually with Louise Huff.
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