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Mary Marsh Arms was approaching lier eightk month when this picture svas posed.
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Mae Marsh Is Back
ONE glance at this picture, particularly the chubby, round-eyed kewpie in the lower left-hand corner, and none of the girls we know would find it in their hearts to blame Mae Marsh for being absent from the screen. Having a baby like this one, says Mae, is just about the nicest thing that can happen to anyone, even a movie star; and she had a hard time making up her mind to leave it for even part of a day, which she would have to do if she signed a contract. But the "wont-you-come-backs" were too insistent, and Mae finally agreed to cast her lot with the Louis Gasnier interests. She will make the type of picture which made her famous, doing the pathetic, sympathetic little girls she alone can do so well.
The baby's name is Mary ISIarsh Arms and she is, in this picture, approaching her eighth month of life. She is already trying to say "Dada" and you should see her shimmy! Father Louis grabs her tiny feet and Mother Mae tickles her, and Mary does the rest.
This child has some of the most distinguished real and
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adopted relatives in filmland. Lillian Gish is a self-appointed auntie; so is Dorothy. Bobby Harron is sort of a big brother and Marguerite Marsh and Mildred Marsh are her real aunts, to say nothing of cousin Leslie and cousin Betty, both wellknown young cinema debutantes.
Motherhood has made Mae Marsh's philosophy of life more mellow; more tolerant. She has always had a wonderful sense of humor, and she seems to have passed it on to Mary. There was— never — other people than her parents say it — such a good natured baby. And it's a wonder she isn't spoiled. Mother went west soon after the holidays, accompanied by her husband and a nurse, and while she works at the studio, Mary will attain the teeth and baby-talk period in a California bungalow and a California garden. California has always been "home" to Mae Marsh, although her past few years have been spent in New York. The rumors that she was to become a legitimate actress proved to be unfounded, for the present anyway; but it is no secret that she would like, some day, to try out her talents— and her rich voice— on the speaking stage.