BEHIND THE SCREEN By SAMUEL GOLDWYN ^-—_____ j (Continued from Yesterday.) Of course, 1 may be mistaken, but it seemed to me that Mary' was con veying the impression that she would not he awfully offended if 1 made her an offer from the Lasky company. However, as this impression was cre ated after Hhe had praised Zukor in the highest possible terms—indeed, she always spoke well uf him—it avoided all the disadvantages of a direct statement. 1 may mention incidentally that she did have offers from many pro ducers. Therefore when she was ready to make a new contract with Zukor she had a very firm foundation of argument. "So-and-so's willing to give me so much. Also So-and-so"— this was tlie lever applied by her mother and her lawyer. There was another revelation made by that first evening. She and her mother were living at the time In a little apartment on One Hundred and Fifth street. When i entered it I was never more surprised in my life, for the room into which I was ush ered contained only a few plain pieces of furniture, and in its center stood an inexpensive-looking trunk. As I waited for Miss Pickford I wondered to myself, "What in tiie world is this girl doing with her thou sand a week?" For you must remember this was no transient abode. Here in these quarters, where Japanese ideas of elimination hail been applied so thor oughly, the famous star had been living for months. As l thus specu lated upon the destiny of Mary’s dol lars the door opened and 1 looked up to see a short, rather stout figure and a face where could lie traced some resemblance to that of the eeteb lity for whom I waited, it was Mrs. Pickford. She greeted me cordially and then she turned to the trunk. From it 1 saw her take the gown her daughter was going to wear that evening, and I could not help observing tho sim plicity of this garment. Many a girl who makes $5(1 a week would have considered it too plain for herself. On another occasion when Mrs. Pickford accompanied us to dinner 1 heard the answer to my unspoken query in the meager little room. She was investing Mary’s savings. Most of these investments were made in Canada, where Mary was horn and brought up, and I was surprised to learn the extent they had already attained. I have spoken of the famous star as being, in reality, a captain of in dustry. Tn the thrift to which I was Introduced this first evening you find a reinforcement of the state ment. T was soon to discover that I'aste of any kind offends Mary pick ford as much as it does John D. Rockefeller. But if Mary is controlled in her general expenditure, if she h(is never been able to rebound front the fear of poverty impressed upon her by the straitened days of her childhood and early youth, she displays rto similar restraint in one particular in stance. Her family! Not only to her mother, but to her brother Jack and her Bister Lottie she has been the so til of generosity. In manner she is perfectly simple snd unaffected. Fnlike many other screen actresses whom 1 have known, she does not act nfter working hours. *nd when she is in the studio she is always courteous and considerate. There on the set, where the soul meter registers so true, Mary Pick ford never indulges in the spasms of ego which the afflicted themselves are wont to call their temperament. Methodically as If she were Mary Jones arriving in the omnia ffflr dic tation, she appears on the Fairbanks lot. There Is absolutely no swank about her. An Illustration of the quality which has so endeared her to many other members of her profession is found in a benefit performance given last year at Hollywood. Space was limited and when the dressing rooms were assigned no such poignant eiy of outraged property rights has been littered since the little hear whim pered. “Who’s been sitting in my chair?” "What!” cried one of the motion When in Omaha Stop at Hotel Rome I Aches and Pains I y Quickly Relieved by | PAIN DESTROYER Apply hot wet towel and then rub pert* with the ma;ic Cemphcrub yj All Good Drug Stores “PHILLIPS” MILK OF MAGNESIA . Say "Phillips"- Protect Your Doctor and Yourself prmnnd genuine '*I*l»llit|»Milk o! Magnesia/’ the original Milk of Mag nrsia prescribed by physicians for fifty year** Itefuse Imitations lhe genuine “Phillips." 25-cent bottles. 111 wo larger hire, con tain directions and lists—any drug store. AllVtK riMKMKNT. Reduce Your Fat Without Dieting Yen in ;iio th** form Ufa for fnt reduHloo w,in T 'i■ \i*i ( lai" Today ll Im "Taka I MmmolH Prwrlptlon TuhleiM" I’rli to|| frinndo- them* frlandM tall nth«*ra. 'I h»-y i .it mil.atuntini food. Ilvi *■ they like and mill r.-dii* •* Mtamlllv an.I canny vil ht»ui going through long *!"•<■ * of tiro hi 1111 a axnnlru a lid si.rvall.il diet. Mar ino!* Prrarrlptloii Tablet* am nold hy all drtiggiMim llif win Id "Vi at ona drdhir order'4 direct from th* Mm mol* Co., 4§I2 Woodward Av« , Detroit, Ml'h i picture duchesses only just recently elevated to the peerage. "Do you mean to say that I have to dress in a room with three other people?" Mary Pickford, however, whose audiences number 25 to this other star s one, sat down good humoredly m a room with several other per formers. Mow Jolly!" said she, according to report. "This reminds me of the old days at the Biograph when J was getting twenty-five a week." If Miss Pickford has. indeed, any vanity, it is focussed more upon her aense of being a good business woman than it is upon her ability as an actress. All or her friends realize this, and Charlie Chaplin, upon whose warm personal friendship witti Douglas Fairbanks and his wife I shall dwell In a later chapter, is very fond of teasing her upon this one vulnerable point. "Where do you get this dea that you're such a tine huslnesa woman, Mury. Charlie asked her laughingly one evening. "Why, i am,” she retorted indig nantly. "Everybody knows it.” "I can't see it,” announced Charlie. “You have something the public wants and you get the market price for It.” "And then," recounts Charlie glee fully, "I wish you had seen Doug. Me looked as if ho were going to hit me.” A year or so ago I was at one of the big hotels in Hollywood with an author making his first visit to the place, lie looked around at tlge din ing room with the faces of so many famous motion picture folks, and then he turned to me. "I don't see Mary and Doug,” he remarked. “Where are they?” "So. ’ said I, "and if you live in Hollywood for a year you'll probably never see them—unless you go to their home." Poor chap! If he had gone to Switzerland and been told that the Alps never came out he could not have looked more disappointed. One evening I was invited to din ner at the beautiful home of Mary and Doug in Beverly Hills. The idol of the screen, arrayed in a beautiful evening gown, met me with a manu script in her hand. "Well, well, what are you doing?” I asked her. "Oh," she said, “I'm working on my story." W.e ate a dinner where the talk was all dedicated to pictures. Then as soon as it was over Mary turned to me. *‘|'d like you to see my new picture this evening,” she announced. "I'm awfully anxious to know what you think of it and to find out If you1 have any suggestion^ to make." I smiled a little as I wan led into the projection room, where almost every evening the star and her hus band turn on their consistent diet of amusement, for I realized that In this clever way Mary was going on with her work under cover of entertain- ! ing me. I ms incident is typical of the whole smiled concentration which I \ am trying to point out Kvery night after dinner the star and her husband ! see some picture—either one of their own or that of somebody else. in order to accomplish this they have Installed in their home a machine and. Just as in the ordinary house hold you turn on the phonograph, one of their men servants tunes up the silver sheet. This home, by the way, presents in its luxury a very different setting from the little room where the star first entertained me, for since her mart'll ge to Douglas Fairbanks there has been a marked expansion in her mode of living. At 8 o'clock In the morning Miss Pickford appears In the studio. It is often late in the evening when she leaves it. As to her working environ ment, this has been so often repro duced that I shall pass over the up roar, the glaring lights, the heat, the long waits, the monotonous repe titions of every scene—all those fea tures which make a motion picture day the most wearing in the world. Nor Is the work less exacting when she Is not engaged in actual repro duction. For, after the careful sift ing of hundreds of stories, her final choice demands innumerable prelimi naries of costume, lighting, directing, scenario writing and casting. And always, always she Is thinking up bits of business for her next play. Blit, the reader may protest, you have given us Mary Pickford chiefly in the terms of work. Can this he all? Is It merely a captain of indus try who, in the guise of the wistful, appealing, dark-eyed slip of a girl, has played upon the heart strings of the world? Decidedly not! On the screen you can not humbug any of the people any of the time. The camera shows, as the speaking stage does not, the fundamental quality of the human soul. It has not deceived you, therefore, when you exclaim in voluntarily. “Isn't she sweet?" the minute you see Mary s lace on the screen. Mary Pickford has a real sweet ness of spirit. Furthermore, it is a woman s sweetness. You And it in the look she bends upon her mother. In her greetings to those who work with her. in her love fhr children and of animals. It was that which led her to write to Mr. Zuknr when, after their long career of contract making, she finally left his organiza tion. the most affectionate and ap preciative of letters. It was certainly that which made the first words I ever heard her utter seem not Just a commercial inquiry, hut the appeal ing wonder of a child. Not only this. Khe possesses all a woman's capacity for lyric response fused with her man's cnpnelty for epic response. The great romance of Mary Pick ford's life Is undoubted ly Douglas Fairbanks, and upon thia I shall touch when I come to speak of Fairbanks himself. rilAPTKK TOUR. Fascinating Fanny Ward. Before I happened into Adolph Zu kor's offh »• that evening, of which l hud spoken previously, when Mary Pick ford \ytis consulting hhti about the pro|M*r recompense for her en dorsement of the cold cream, 1 was. of course, already launched on toy own adventures with ihc stellar world. Through my account of the dim cultles exjK»rlenced by Mr. Zukor and Mary Pick ford aniving at a mutual understanding of a satisfactory wage, the reader may perhaps have gath erotl that the Intercourse between producer and star Ih often clouded by the Individual v iewpoint. A story | of my own contract/* will not weaken that impression, in fact, before the hanky company was six months old 1 had discovered that the need for adjustment between these two mi p rente functionaries of the motion picture world covers a wide ground, where salary represents only a lint ited space. Among the first of the Mars whom T engaged was Hanny Ward It was shortly after we made our first pic ture that I chanced to meet tills wide ly known actress in tin- elevator o' the Hotel t’larldge, New York. Karin/ whs not in her first youth. There was nothing, however. ex< * pt her birth certificate to Indicate this fact. If Ponce de i.eori In his search for the fountain of vouth had seen her that day he surely would hove cried, “Ho, man, we're getting warin'* EDDIE’S FRIENDS The Sleepy Gujr ^UOW'T LET ME 'BfEEAK^iy^ y\ UP T^E £»AME JUST BECAUSE \'/ Yl T'M LEAVIM& - I'M So SLEEPV y\} cfM’.T Keep mw enesopelI j x^MEA, t KMOW - u / EuMKiH UouU A 6uV 1 AUaJXvs c-aETS T4At 1 KX16/N' FOE. A FED '] wvteM he's etOT S\ ^LL “We. SAOKiEN^y / STiCK Af^oUMD AwMiut -Mou WUfcMT OaFT J OUR. OV/EE - COATS' AMD ) , t ’ WATCKtS / • m: too y ^ A cup BLACK COPPEfc. POE.TiAlS^i I 0 1924 my Imt l FcAnmt Stwvice^lNcj| I was so struck by that air of youthful witchery which she has so often conveyed on the screen that I ultimately asked her if she would not make some pictures for us. Up to that time her fame had been confined to the speaking stage. But she was at once enthusiastic about the oppor tunity I presented to her, and in a short time we concluded arrange ments for her trip. (Continued In The Dear Miss Allen: My sister goes with a young man who is splendid in every way, hut there mi one blight on him which I am afraid of. yet am not quite sure about, it is this. Ills mother is insane. There is alio some Insanity in our family, my uncle, on mother's side, having (lied insane af ter being so for many years. Maybe tills would be more a question for a doctor but it seems I can't get a chance to ask a doctor so therefore come to you, as I know you have many- sources of information. Supposing they would get married, what would the chances be of their children having sound minds? Is not the law of hereditary rather cruel sometimes In this resta-ct? Would it la- safe to take such an awful chance? My sister, though well educated, seems to be blinded to all this. Please answer In The Bee ms soon as you can for I worry myself almost sick over tills at times. HKK &1HTKU. Yours is a question for a doctor. I would not undertake to answer it. Insanity conies from different causes. Some of them, 1 believe, are not her editary: some are. Ho you see it all depends%jpon the history of the case. There are few families which do not have some case of insanity mixed up somewhere, so it is not a matter for you to become unduly agitated about. Insanity often comes with old age. and is more a physical than a mental failure. There are people with bad “histories" physically, who should not marry, bu* I deubt very much If this would be true In the case of your sister. Have her see a re liable expert on mental diseases. N'o one else can advise ner wisely. Alice: Tan is the natural color for pongee. It takes dye beautifully and can be made any shade you wish. There is an oyster white in pongee. This material does make effective win dow draperies, especially for summer. Why not write some store for samples of material. There are regular drape silks, somewhat heavier than pongee, which you might like. L B.: A tea room should be named appropriately, not Just given any name which strikes the fancy. If it is a cozy, Intimate little place, the name should suggest that. "The Green Teapot," "Brown Betty,” are friendly and carry the thought of a cool salad and a cup of daintily serv ed tea. 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"Abraham Lincoln." the life story of the great president, which the Rocketts have completed in film form, is to be Rent out to the public as a road show. "Technicolor.” the patented color film process which nas used in "Toll of the Sea,” in Cecil de Mille's "The Tew Commandments,” and In the Zane Grey story, "Wanderer of the Waste land,” has established a plant in Hol lywood. Vincente is the latest "discovery.” Arthur Sawyer claims the honor of finding him and he's supposed to have the combined facial character istics and screen appeal of Rudolph Valentino and Ramon Navarro. To what lengths a press agent will go! Madeline Traverse was awarded a judgment of 572,489 for breach of con tract against Herbert Lyon Smith. Tom Mix threatens us with a book, "The West of Yesterday." Tom better lav off that author stuff or some poor writer may want to be a film actor. Oh, Boy! Try and censor this one. For be it known that Royal A. Baker, censor of pictures in Detroit, has written a scenario, "When a Wo man Reaches Forty," which will be made by Sehulberg. Madge Bellamy, Bull Montana and Anna Q. 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MORLEY Pretented With ■ Special Prologue Featuring GLADYS MULLEN | lead In Maurice Tourneur'* "The White Moth.” 1/---> Radio Programs ^-' By Associated Press, i Program To Hr Broadcast Wednesday. (Central Stand^-d Time.) (By Courtesy of Hadio Digest.) Note All times given sis P. M, un less otheiwise noted. KDKA. F Pittsburgh (326)—5:30. con cert; 6:45 children's hour; 7:15 talk; 7 30 quartet. J KKKX. Hastings Bebroadcasts program of KI>KA. ‘ KHJ, Los Angeles (39.1) — 8:45 children's I program; 10, concert; 12. orchestra KPO, San Francisco (433) —10. pro gram; 31. orchestra. K8I). St. Louis Post Dispatch (646) — 8. program. KYW. Chicago (530)—6 30 children’s story; 7. concert: *:uH concert: t:06, Book review; 10. midnight revue WBAP. Fort Worth Star Telegram (476)—7:30. concert; 9:30. orchestra. WDAF, Kansas City Star «411> — 6. •chool of air; 8. concert; 31:45, night hawks. WDAP, Chicago (360)—10, program, or c hestra. WEAF. 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