Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1921, Page 8

. ef ous’ Surprised “ ————— Copyright, 1921. by The McChire Newspeper Syndicate end Hayden. Talbot.———————— of HA... 9 By Inviting Cow Puiichiers ife 7 Mary and Prize Fighters to Dinner How do Mary and Doug “Dream live in their Castle”? With a Husband who has an irrepressible sense of humor, Mary has often found her- self facing a battered prize fighter or a lanky cowpuncher at the dinner table. But they have one time they are at home that is wholly theirs—for no reason whatsoever will they give up their dinner together in the evening, when time and the “dream castle” is set aside for Mary and Doug. As Told . MARY PICKFORD To HAYDEN TALBOT Y * == ~ aes a Ever since our marriage, said Mary, we have lived in a very simple manner, Douglas does not care for a hurly-burly sort of. life, with one round of entertainment following another, nor do I. So as a consequence we really live an extremely quiet existence at our house on the hill. Of course, we are not recluses. We have our friends and we get a lot of real enjoyment out of entertaining them. But these enter- tainments are almost invariably informal. Dinners that take on the nature of functions at our home ar: rare. But we do have them upon occasions. Usually this is whea some personage is entertained or when some official, political or otherwise, comes to California from the East and is invited to spend an evening with us. like all happily married folks, our chief interest is in each other. In this respect 1 don’t think we differ in the least from other happily married couples. if uy PPS OY. the story were held:almost every day at the house up until the actual time photographing on the picture started. I might also add that almost every- thing pertaining to our new produc- tions—“the Three Musketeers” for Douglas and “Little Lord Fauntleroy” for myself—ts being supervised from the Beverly Hills place and not from the studio. Two Kinds of Home Life It might be said, I suppose, that we lead two kinds of home life. My reason for saying this is that when We are actually at work on a picture ¢ we live very differently from what we do when we are “between pictures,” to use a phrase of the profession. Let me fllustrate thi During the time I was at work on “Through the Back Door” I was up every morning at seven and arrtved at the studio at nine. You see, olir home is seven sons and our work and ambi- tions and tastes are similar. this Ww" ARE both homeloving per- [ESS As a consequence life {deal. Douglas, of course, is a lover of the out-of-doors. And our home is so situated that he can indulge this great liking to his heart's content. Whenever opportunity presents he is off over the brush-clad hills that leap up in serried ranks behind the house, and with him go all his dogs, yelping with delight at the prospect of a day of coyote or rabbit chasing. This sort of pastime, naturally, is too strenuous for me. But if the trip is to be made on horseback and not on foot, then I often join the party. To me there is no sport more tn- vigorating and exhilarating than dashing over hill and across gully on a swift, sure-footed horse. Aside makes our LIEK Titan, men =o, SN Douglas Fairbanks, in the panel at the left, as he looks when he’s working ont a new part, and Mary Pickford, below, 2s she looks Mary and Doug at rest. They are in front of the famous Pic! ford-Fairbanks home at Bever!y Hills, to which they fly after their busy days of work. | Mr.’ Talbot’s Com- ' ments on Mary at Home As filustrating Miss Piekford's Jove of ell her people, one of those queer twists of fate, or whatever it may be, brought to the surface with ‘ dramatic force the bigness cf this little natural mother’s love for her family, “Bor before she finished dictating the last sentence we both heard the sharp rat-a-tat-tat of an. aeropiane’s engine. It was not the low droning that comes down out of the air when a plane is at any great altitude. It “was rather like the.sudden ear-eplit- ting assault of a racing motor car dashing by within a few fect. Miss Pickford’s face went sud- denly white. She sprang to her feet and dashed out of the room without a word. Involuntarily I followed— although 2eroplanes in Southern Cal- ifornia are as common these days > automobiles. On tho lawn of her bungaiow Miss Pickford stood gazing up at the ma- chine that was coming like a whirl- wind straight toward the little build- ing—and ‘not more than one hundred feet clevation! It was a very sportily painted affair and with tacy lines. And in it was only the pilot! Within a belf dozen seconds the plane crossed directly over our heads, and shooting suddenly skyward, just cleared ‘the roof of a big glass stage beyond. I looked at Miss Pickford “ heard a half suppressed sob. Tears were streaming down her. face. Her body was shaken with a veritable paroxysm of agony. Suddenly she glenched her hands and held her arms up in the direction in whfch the plane had disappeared. ‘ “Oh Jack, oh Jack.” she sobbed, “you promised you wouldn’t.” “Then she turned and ran into the es 1 from the sheer fun, there is also the exercise and the great benefit derived from breathing deeply of fresh, pure alr. Nothing can be more healthful than this. But our Ife is not one continuous round of pleasure, much as we would like it to be. Our work is to be con- sidered. And there is probably no calling more exacting than ours—act- ing for the screen Of course, in addition to appearing before the cam- era, Douglas and I manage our re- spective companies. Besides being players we are producers, which in- volves all the intricate procedure of presiding over extensive organiza- tions. The fact that we both market our plays through the United Artists Cor- poration makes it possible for us to = i Although it is not always possible tire famiiy must suffer the effects of for us to have breakfast together, we it. I inflict neither my doctrines nor always make it a point to dine to- doctorings upon guests or household gether. This is the one time when attaches. ~ we are determined to see each other, 5 and everyone in our respective organ- Entertrning Doug's Friends One of .our greatest pleasures izations has instructions to arrange _ business affairs so that our evening comes of entertaining our friends at meal can be partaken of at home dinner. Needless to sar, most of our and in peace. friends are people of the profession. Thus, when the day is done we for- This, of course, is because of the get all cares, all business or produc- common ground upon which» we tion worries until the evening repast Stand. As has been served and cleared away. Among the frequent diners at our This is our one brief respite from all home is Mr. Charles Spencer Chaplin. responsibility, the one opportunity to There are others, too, but I think relax physically and mentally as well. Mr. Chaplin comes most often. He Our @inners are always varied. is delightful company and both Dous- Douglas, of course, demands a man’s las and I enjoy his visits immensely. miles: from the studio, and in order to bathe and breakfast and dress properly, one must arise by seven at least in order to make this motor trip. My breakfast when working is just as simple and frugal as when I am between pictures. In consists of either fruit and toast or just warm milk. I never drink coffee or tea because I have discovered that they do not agree with me. When our pictures are in the course of making Donglas and I do not alwiks eat breakfast together, the reason being that it is not always convenient to do so. For example, if Douglas is going on a distant location, which is fre- quently the case, he js often up as early as 4 o'clock. at our destination. Other meals, too, are prepared in the car. «This con- veyance makes it possible for me to travel all night witheut undue fatigue if it so happens that we are going on a long trip into the moun- tains or the dessert. But to get back to our :torning meal at home. This is always eaten in the breakfast room and never in the bedroom. There are no meals served in bed at our house! We think our breakfast. room is one of the most cheerful and attractive rooms in the whole house, with its cream-colored furniture, bright flow- ers and lively canary, and the French windows that look out across the wide porch on to the mansion- studded mountains and wide, road- And not infre- meal. But with me it is somewhat And , as I think of it, T can transact much of our business jointly. quently it 1s 1 who must go on locs. fibboned and house-dotted valley Giterent. All during the making of hardiy rey that our guests are lim- The result of this is that our home tion. ee my last film I found it necessary to {ted to any particular cless. For is often our business office. Man When necessary for me to g0 Always Dine Together be very discriminating in the things Douglas, man-like, ha a great habic of the most important conferences away I travel in my “location car." Truly, the greatest of all actresses I ate. In fact, the doctor put me on of bringing home anyone he takes bearing on our work are held at the house. For instance, practically all of th preparatory work in con my ; Door,” w ences regar a motor vehicle equipped for camp- ing. This is built on the principle of a Pullman drawing-room, contain- ing beds and necessary paraphernalia a diet of spinach and milk, the reason being that I suffered considerably from nervous indigestion. ; But at home we follow neither rote nor diet at the table. By that I mean that because J am confined to a diet it does not follow that the en- is Mother Nature. From these win- dows we view her in every mood. Sometimes she is whimsical, some- times capricious, again she is rocked in the storms of anger—and on the broad screen below us we see every phase, every change reflected. a fancy to. _ Imagine my surprise one evening when I came down to dinner and dis- covered that Dougins had’ invited a number of prizefighters and wrestle-s to be our guests. ‘There they sat-abon:t the: table’ with their cauliflower ears after we ar wus = y aw an pe gf NN OE “ar and batfered noses, wondering what to do with the array of extra knives and forks that, confronted them. And another evening, when Douglis was entertaining, we had half a dozen cow-punchers—all lank, ungainly. fel- lows who knew much of silver saddle mountings | but mountings. Nevertheless they wero ali splendid. sterling fellows who would go to the ends of the earth for anyone they liked. The reason | cite these two cases is just to show that when one’s husband possesses an humor honored guest for dinner will ‘oe. When the meal is over, if’ we have beén working that day, we usually sce the “takes” for the day run off in our projdéction room. By the mean the finished motion picture fim 7 that has come from the laboratory thnt @ay and that shows our iatest work. Then, as both audience and critics, we sft in judgment on our work. An surely we have no more severe critics than ourselves. If_our Uwn “takes” are not ready, or if we are not working, we then devote the ie me ee ee bungalow and threw herself on the couch inher dressing room, crying her heart out. 4 , A member of the Pickford organ- ization had seen it sll—and now turned to me with a wry smile and an explanation. “It's her brother,” he said shortly. “He's gone daffy over flying, and the other’ Gay got his pilot's license. That’s his own machine.» He just bought it. And he told Miss Pick- ford and his mother that he was going to call on both of them today —shaving the roofs of the bungalow cf and the Pickford home. I suppose the he's off to repeat this étunt for. his mother’s benefit now. And the point is that he promised Miss Pickford that he wouldn’t come near this lot.” Uttle ef silver table irrepressible there’ no sense telling who “takes” I latest photoplays, which we secure from one .of the exchanges in Los Angeles. Thus have we been afforded the :pleasure of seeing on our own hearthstone, so to speak, some of the most beautiful and successful pictures cf the day. evening to viewing one of SS = the (To be concluded aa ea