Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 8

oe) y THE GLEAMING LINENS IN €XQUISITE RY as HOUSE W IFE ORDER ON THE SHELVES OF THE CEDAR ROO <== Copyright, 1921, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate end Hayden Teldet.—=———=————— =, _—— ft - { Also her resources of - physical|mention the cost of the film and its}mever been able to control his The rose room that belongs to Charlie Chap! the atm |strength are little short of amazing.|development and printing—several|laughter could he have witnessed | of peace and housewifely care that reigns over all. | Litde and not robust looking as she|thousands of dollars when the eom-|the carrying out of Miss Pickford’s| MARY PI “MY LIFE” As Told By fs, she yet can and does tire out Sipet salaries of the star and her husky men whose duties require| high-priced staff are considered. But sticking out the working day with|if Miss Pickford gave any considera- her. jtion to this aspect of the incident F oO R D | On one oceasion, for example, it/she evidenced it in no way. | was necessary for her to visit a pho-| , The Swedish journalist haz his tographer’s studio to pose for a num- | daughter bis is. = ere dah et ; ber of portraits. She arrived with her|five. At Miss Pickford’s suggestion P : To HAYDEN TALBOT |taua ss 9 o'clock in <1e morning. t}the child played a prominent role in ot —————————————E—EE — a 11 o'clock that night she was s! ine Photoplay. Also little Mary 1! RS . ; : he|“20oKing pleasant”—while the pho-|Rupp, Miss Pickford's niece, was fe} Mary refused a million dollars for a year’s work—proving she) ..--anher and three assistants and |drafted into the scene—much against was a good business woman. And here’s something else for you to know! ! F seldom stays up later than 9 o'clock. But before she retires she makes | labors j everyone else comfortable for the night, for she is, as one of her workers expressed it—a true “mother-woman.” the maid were on the verge of hys-|her will. Miss Pickford|terics from their nerve-racking A Mary Pickford Doll. For Miss Pickford’s idea of giving| the newspaper man “a message of} grecting” to the readers of his news- paper—which he had coms to get— Plays Impromptu Drama. representative of a Swedish newspaper, on a specia] mission to The 1 py Heyden Talbot, to whom Miss Pickford narrated her life story,| |... United States connected with a|was a motion picture reproduction ot { 4 sums up the little characteristics that go to make up her charm as @/-ireuiation-booming scheme, called|the gift she had suddenly hit upon Ay ecto 1% cess as a movie star. on Miss Pickford one day while I|sending to Sweden. The gift was a / 4; GO i ime ell hig ger Tas was with her. Like almost all her|doll, dressed exactly as Miss Pickford the Bi fra RY by NCE upon a time the very ener- au y O getic, self-confident representa- ~ 4 tive of one of the most impor- os 3 tant film companies in America told wa t ‘ his chief in New York that he was of ‘ “3 positive he could induce Mary Pick- te: Al ford to sign a long-term contract and ehh > \ make pictures for his concern. Fly At that time, it was about three| line i years ago, Miss Pickford was just| Bs q finishing her contract with Famous = SUP{, Players—and as a box office attrac- car et be f} tion had established herself at the caf Aly), very top of the heap. To get her sis- cat Nv Z nature to such = contract would be ae z { a certainty of tremendos| na a i Ale profits. | ler Wherefore the film magnate de- tor 7 spatched his representative ecross 3 the continent. ae For threo months the very ener- tay getic, resourceful gentleman tried his un best to arrange an interview with ‘gl Miss Pickford—in vain +4 Meantime his expense account was on giving his chef in New York no little ut concern. (It might be added, paren- sz | thetically, that when it comes to the e fine art of divorcing visitors from ta thetr available cash, Monte Carlo rhe runs a bad second to Los Angeles.) rei Finally telegrapnic advices reached 5 the employee that if he didn't pro- rhe duce results within 24 hours he he could consider his 90-day vacation nto permanent—without salary thence- Ds forth. as| Thus stimulated, the would-be sig- as} mature producer managed to obtain ini Miss Pickford’s consent to receive 1p him. At the meeting which took|20 you wonder she’s the world’s sf place that evening at the Pickfora|Sweetheart when you see her in Uy home were present, besides the two a pose like this? ng principals, Douglas Fairbeaks and an bai ng old friend of the Pickford family. a Mary Refuses Million I believe I forgot to mention the Ar ‘After the usual preliminary fenc-|fact that there 4s a linen room, and ‘ei ing the representative of the big film|!t {8 wonderfully attractive with its f concern finally made his maximum|TOW8 and rows of enclosed cedar 1 offer—-$1,000,000 for 50 weeks of|Shelves. It ts diMcult for me to de- Ne Miss Pickford’s's services, $20,000|Scribe the linens, for to say “a round arr aieetk. cloth of filet and cutwork” sounds #1 And Miss Pickford refused it! so Inadequate to express the dream u Incidentally, she refused it because He eet hand and real lace thay really is. my Tee ee en tees Nevis. svrecnesta-|. TheFe are table cloths and lunch 754 cloths and tray cloths and runners ts Stra Spend Rimselt Gut cf 9 Job. and centrepieces and sideboard scarfs at Deis ennon Melee Uy ee spray tecuned of eyelet and Italian cutwork and ae 5 DP 4, | There are linen sheets, pillow slips Dre Bie could Serniprofts considerably in | <4 towels upon which this beantittl ta Saree pla nde Par Pa t|work has been lavished. They seem lio ford release, as they call it in the| MY At for talry folk to use. th P. Not the least interesting attrac- trade, earns a gross sum in excess of $5,000. Seldom, if ever, does a Pick- ford picture cost as much as $100,- 000 to film. Ergo, two and one-half pictares would net Miss Pickford $1,000,009. She can make eight pictures in a year, if she wishes to do 50. At least three years ago, it will be noted, she had arrived at a stage of income earning power which a Roths- rs ‘hfld might envy. What dreams of cing avarice might not reasonably fill the Bt mind of ar,impressionable girl whose uw! jbirth and greater part of her life had wus | fbeen marked by the miost~ meagre If } purse limitations. . ; Solid Gold Toilet Set a Undoubtedly many people will be nae A interested to know that Mrs. Fair- er | Hees) banks has’a solid gold toilet set, pre- ur | 4 si} ‘sented by her husband. a 4 Right here I mignt say that the w i U) pictures In all of the bedrooms are yt ; i |) for the most part portraits, copies of t 7 ug old masters, many of them engraved. { SI ‘There are two guest rooms, one of 4i them the rose room, which has come H to be known as the Charlie Chapllu 13} room, because it is given over to the i comedian whenever he visits the Fairbanks—is furnished in gray and, of course, has its bath. Then there is the yellow room, with its blue furniture, and also its path. TAnen Fit For Fairies The linens in the Fairbanks }a truck farm, tion about the Fairbanks home is the wonderful grounds. In front of the house is a broad velvet lawn. Con- jpicuously placed on this lawn is a piece of statuary called “The Rising Sun,” by Weinman, a gift from Mrs. Fairbanks to Mr. Fairbanks on his last birthday. This work was orig- inally displayed at the San Francisco exposition. Beyond the lawn is a swimming pool, with a canoe ready to be launched at a moment's notice. Not far away is the bath-house, fully equipped with showers, dressing rooms, and with an assortment of suits that will fit the smallest child or the largest grow-up. Farm Animals Are Movie Actors There are twelve acres in the visitors the journalist was seeking her aid in furtherance of his news- grounds, and it is interesting to note|P#Per’s Plan to increase {ts circula- that the road winding up to the honse|t!on. Almost before he had finished takes the form of a heart. There js/Utlining the details of what he| stables, kennels anq|Wanted Miss Pickford had consented. garage. All of the animals, as well| So it was, an hour or two later, as the automobiles, are used in both |that the young woman stepped to the the Pickford and Fairbanks’ produc-|900F of her charming bungalow on|>ungalow—carrying a valise almost tions. the Brunton lot—arrayed in the gala}. pig as she was—direct from Stock- dress of a Swedish peasant girl, from |hoim, bringing a messace from What Brought Mary Success. | wooden shoes. to gay-colored band ; Leo Graciousness is one of Miss Pick- Souk harhuck i “and hens Sweden’s children to their idol of the about her famous curls. € ha anawee ‘the ford’s chief charms. With her, de-|for upwards of two hours more Miss Sate ox ingtecoeeeet the little oa ie please amounts almost to a! Pickford enacted bedeaeraeed devised visitor, and then call the other Mary Hea Pea - little photoplay before the motion- —who would in course present the ea Bee a bd nee lees camera—calling upon the/son to the stranger, kiss’ ber, and y many inte ws w er services of her director and camera! end her on her way back to Sweden had evidences of her innate courtesy|/man and their assistants to insure —with the gift stowed away in the and kindliness—as displayed not only Nhe success of the film. « ’ to me but to others who came mak- dressed in “Pollyanna”. Wherefore, she decided to let little Mary Rupp have the centre of the stage while she portrayed the proud (and retiring) motier. |_ The scene as suggested by Miss Pickford, was to show the journalist's daughter arriving’at the door of the menage are really beautiful and sould delight any woman. A little figuring ‘will show that this |" 3 ing more or less inexcusable demands|impromptu performance represented A confirmed dyspeptic suffering on her timo and patience. —in actual time consumed, not to/from chronic pessimism weuld hare Sr ceca, < fre ZS INN a A727 Ia Dorr TK eo Se 5 ee ee SRO a ee ; — ZAKS — ie EINER SSO NF Ios —— or “SD SS OSS FF NN Se ees Mary and Doug at home, with some of their favorite dogs ideas. Time after time directors an: Her greatest charm is her graciousness ~ genarag <i Lane assistent directors, camera men. true women she uses the,weapon of tears when she must. usually scenario writers and mere lay folk she sunshine of her smile, and her care and thought for gthers wins like myself—all waited breathlessly! / as the little 4 hese. ana | ewes heart. With her, the desire to please amounts c!most to a je drama began. rales every time one or another of the two |Féligion. children would do something wrong —and the whole thing have to be begun over again. As a matter of ‘wise’ gentlemen who actually knowjyou feel that way. It's awi for a nothing of the facts, set it down to|w-man to use tears—-ever. (THE END) Model and the fact the journalist's daughter was 2 ad much better’screen actress than Miss|/good business only—as accounting Pickford’s niece. It was the latter|for the fact that in eleven years who persisted in forgetting some|Miss Pickford har never been seen vitally important piece of “business”/anywhere or in any company to} ndeke: Sarna: | which the strictest Puritan could ob- Artist Finally, however, the picture was|ject. But the truth is that gay par- is DOnorae Dooerae made—and then followed a lovely |ties and bright lights hold absolutely ef a tea party on the lawn—with every-|no attraction for Miss Pickford. body happy and bright—and stuffed “The only thing that keeps her out full of ice cream and cake and other/of her bed and away from her home good things—the edibles fetched by|after 9 o'clock at might —when she ye naa for black coffee Miss Pickford's Japanese chauffeur|is working—is her work. And when| However, having arrived inside the from a downtown confectioner’s—jshe is ‘between pictures’ it requires | quaint little orange-colored door, he a‘round trip of 18 miles, made ‘n/a jot of coaxing and something very aoe glad. There was a decided sen: barely ‘twice as many minutes! ‘uch worth while to make her leave,f atmosphere about the small, taste fully arranged tea-room and, as he }W her home or stay after that hour. fea-tiec \ IMMY GILMORE idled inte the J small, interesting-looking tea- room more because he had noth- ing to do than for any terrific thirst sank into a corner built “If only people who hold a bad|Jimmy was conscious of a longing opinion of motion picture folk could Ue the eae Fahy ne Fick? ae z ras only one, and a desperately pinow just'one little fact-about Miss}; (oo is one at that. ania en- tire flock of best girls was scattered at seaside or mountain resort. After he had ordered his black | coffee and cinnamon toast he slumped down into his chair in an effort to find greater comfort for long legs. One of those long legs shuffled some- Mary a Mother Woman. One of Miss Pickford’s co-workers, connected with the studios, told me thing along the floor and Jimmy bay A] peered’ ‘inder the table to see that J it was. al |__ It proved to be a photograph, ready [fF for mailing but badly, very badly, = done up. The string was slipping off 4 | and the cardboard protection was {n a decided way of escaping its duty. Jimmy supposed a woman had tied it up. | It was addressed to a man in ;Chicago and in the corner the send- |er's name was given as Fay McBane, with an address that Jimmy knew to be only a block or two from the tea- |room. Apparently Miss McBane had been out to post the photograph and |had dropped it in the tea-room rather than in the mail box. Jimmy let slip the string that was already but a frail binding. He | wanted to see what Fay looked like. |Had the photograph been well tied | up he would have dropped {t in- the |first box. However, he decided upon trying |to see the original, and after finish- ing his coffee he started out to try |his luck. |. The girl who opened it was neither the girl of the photograph nor did she in any way resemble her. She was not pretty, she was not bold, nor was she anything that Jimmy ‘had ex- pected to see. Miss McBane was an jartist, judging from the studio, the big apron, the daubs of paint on a |piquant, interesting little face and . \the easels, canvases and drapery |strewn about the place. | When she found out the reason for jhis being there she very sweetly in- |vited the tired, hot Jimmy into her ;Studio and let him sit in the cool | window seat. He liked her the mo- ment he looked into her wide, uns flirtatious eyes. “That is one of my models," she tet Ss |Was saying, “I was sending it out to Bickford: in, private life. they would | the author to seo if the type warantte f change their opinion. I know what/able for the illustrations of her I am about to tell you is the abso-|latest novel. It was most kind of lute truth. I have had ft from her YoU to bring it. I fancied I had mother-and sister and brother. Night| “Topped it in the ‘instend? after night during the winter—when | Jimmy. ae mother and sister and brother are| “And I was a bit/Ionesome,” he all out enjoying themselvesy—Miss | Confessed. - Pickford, on the stroke of §, goes ,, I supposed you expected to see / from one bedroom to another—put- jaugh spy, seid Fay with a short laugh. I'm sorry she is not here ting a hot water bottle in each bed| just now—che may drop in later. and laying out the night clothes for|, She ie a big. good-hearted girl and each of them. far more lovely to look at than her Picture indicates.” “Sure she makes a half million out |” «Par mioeeueeels to look at than of every picture, but that fact never|to talk to, also, I suppose,” Jimme has and it never will change her in, Suggested and found himself just a the least degree. If ever there was| ‘rifle annoyed that Miss McBane was so willi i ® natural born. mother-woman it i3|"1 Suppose you eves hone ees she.” hours to idle,” he said gazing about ‘the well-worked ecanvar’s.”" } : ot |,.No-. I have had so muth - And then, like a dazzling ray of! trating to do lately that Taga es sunlight bursting through blackjhave time to cook my meals and § thunder clouds, the little girl herseif| just loye to cook,” lamented Fay. “I appeared on the piazza of the bunga- "ave to use my energy for painting low, ‘into which she had gone in rathersthan cooking, so I am coim- pelled to go into tha 2 tears when she learned that her| for pay Lace thar Utila tea-roam brother Jack had been flying his| “Oh,” said Jimmy. dreadful airplane again. | .A slight flush crept across Fay’s “Do forgive me,” she was saying. | necks. | eee ae made an at- “I’m.so ashamed of myself. But Iishe had given hie no, apparent lead given him. “ : couldn't help it.. I'm so awfully lad to ey Lenould be only too glad to bring in Doris, afraid something dreadful will hap-|°T any of my tovely models and intro. Mary and Doug as they are today laughe¢ Mary Uses ter Tears. a story illustrating another side of the little star's character. pen to Jack. And he promised me | AuCe ye eas hat ts, “if-youw «Qu “or hari hegats .iacn he wouldn't fly over here.” “No, I don't want to know any of (es f I assured her I understood per-|them—they would be only third best = eyerybody knows that it’s good busi- fiess to keep the private lives of stage and picture stars absolutely secret, so far as the public is concerned. In some cases—there was one published in the papers the other day—a film concern goes so far as to have it stipulated in the contract that the star must’ neter appear at certain public places where late parties are! the tule. And, of course, most of us know that some stars, being de- nied the right to make merry in| | 07 ° public, go the limit In pelvete any |Our cxPressions, she explained. | fectly and suggested we call off the jinterview until another day. But wouldn't listen to such a thing.” I know some girls that-T hare alwa) '8 considered best girls, but now. T realize there can only be one best: a ; the others will b ‘ T’m quite all right; really I am,”| want to know the thine: ibe tha bees she protested: And then a mis-onds, but I do very much wear to chievous smile broke oct over her|*"0W tne jbest—the very best girl.” face, as she shook her head reproy- ou pave an idea, then, who the ingly. | twin girl is?” asked Fay, with a sl \ twinkle behind the wide Oh, “how wicked a woman can| “A slight idea,” said Steay. © be!” she exclaimed. And then to an-| Wonder if I could do up that photos swer the unuttered question which | "SPB tee ala tae the press agent and I expressed in| Gilmore aa fotnd he ER rank and clear of glance—the kind “We all have such a tremendously |0f Man a girl, even an ari inde. 7 admirers "3 } }» an her i > ge : two men look as if you were quite|eren smile met his eager } ready to melt into complete Personi- fications of sympathy. And I’m truly ashamed of myself tor Raving made “I should like it t. nation,” she told him. and x Jimn, knew that -the best girl had entered upon his horizon to stay. “And because this ts more or less generally known, it ts possible that © reach its destt- | | P SS > —~ ~ Se a ee ee Se ee SN OSS Pe = SS J INN <=, SS