Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1930, Page 23

WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 1, 1930. YES AL, WE'RE SITING PRETTY! THis BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST WILL MAKE US BOTH RICH— AND DoNT FORGET, STAR, AH! THERE GIRLIE' 1 SUPPOSE You ARE ENTERING THE ER~- LSTEN AL, SUPPOSING YOU RUN ALONG OVER TO THE OFFICE WHILE 1 EXPLAIN THIS CONTEST SO! ™aTS His IDEA OF FIFTY~ - MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, Calif, August 1 (N.AN.A) —Emphatic denials from the Pickford-Fairbanks organization to the| rumor that Mary Pickford had dis-| banded her entire personnel and would | abandorf picture making. The rumor, which circulated through the colony following the esignation of Arthur Zeliner, publicity Tepresentative of the royal family of Hollywood, could not be_traced to any definite founda- | tion. Two dismissals of staff do not precisely constitute abandonment of a| career. But the world is on the qui vive regarding the king and queen, and| the slightest move is interpreted in| extravagant terms. Mary Pickford is in conference with Bam Taylor, the director chosen to carry on her picture when Marshall Neilan was taken off the job. Her secretary is| acting as publicity agent pro tem, and denies any retirement move on Mary’s part. The situation would seem to have| boiled down to this: Sam Taylor has| no enthusiasm for the two-thirds fin-| iched story which he was called in to| doctor up. It is a tragic tale, and he thinks Mary should not appear in it. Douglas Fairbanks, it seems, likes the work Mary has done in “Secrets,” and sees no reason why it should be shelved. Almost half a million has been spent on it now. Sam Taylor wants Mary Pickford to make a comedy picture, and | the present hitch lies in whether Mary | shall take her husband’s advice and| finish “Secrets” or shall make the comedy, as advised by Taylor, one of the shrewdest directors in the colony. Since Pickford-Fairbanks affairs re- main largely a matter of rumor, due to the secrecy shrouding Mary's profes- sional plans, I may as well tell that a well authenticated story represents Mary Pickford as bursting into tears when| she saw how badly she looked in the film “Secrets.” Poor camera angles could be responsible for this. There also is no doubt but that the camera catches thought. The old rule of movie- | land is “When the camera comes close, stop gesturing and think.” If Mary was very unhappy at that time—and friends close to the couple insist that she was—the camera possibly caught MERRICK. something which she felt was hidden from the world. +. ‘This third picture is the most vital in the talking career of Mary Pickford. The first talkie is always box-office if a big star makes it. Her followers go out of loyalty; new people go out of curiosity. The second picture gets good attendance, for the reason that pecple go back to see whether it is either as good or as bad as they thought the first one was. But the third definitely establishes success or failure for all time. One thing that isn’t rumor is the fact that at the present time Mary and Doug are decidedly chummy. . They week ended on Joseph Schenck’s yacht at Catalina, and I got the sunburn of my life lying in a yacht alongside, watching them. And there’s no rumor about this sun- burn—it's fact. A deep and vast silence shrouds the case of Vivian Duncan and Rex Lease, which was to have made the welkin ring early yesterday morning. I hate to be an old I-told-you-so; but, remem- ber, I did tell you so. Lawsuits are settled out of court when they interfere with movie plafs. ‘The thermometer is on the up-and-up in movieland. And there is about one artificially cooled sound stage to every ten that are about as jolly comfortable as bake ovens. Well, cheerie-o! 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