Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-02
MARY PICKFORD'S PAY ENVELOPE IS FAT ONE
Popular "MOvie" Actress Receives $s,0O0 q Week, and Spends Less
 Than Some Who Earn 0.
(Photoplay Magazine.)

erdent admirers of Mary Pickford
 the widely-known little screen star
 have been following with keen inter-
 est the narrativei of her life which
 has been appearing in Photoplay
 Magazine. In the February number
 tte writer, Julian Johnson, mentions
 the little stars enormous salary and
 sives some intimate glimpses of Miss
 Pickford's personality.
 Following is an extract from the
 concluding chapter of the up-to-the.
 minute life-story of the young gir1
 whose name is known in practically
 every home in America:
 Like queen on the throne of 8
 great principality at peace with its
 n.ighbors, Miss Pickford in the Fam.
 ous fold has led an outwardly quiet
 lie. But also like queen who rules
 over great monarchy, hers has been
 an existence of arluous labor and
 not at all that span Of processions exaltatlons and acclamations o1
 which a queens week are supposed
 to be made up.
 NO salary, it is safe to say, will ever receive the wonder and amaze l accorded the Pickford manifestations sand-a-year.
 l The popular success of Miss Pick ford has been thing apart from her 1 dramatic triumphs, even as Maude Adams conquest of America had lit- | tic to do with her true dramatic ability. In both instances a rare and wholly individual charm swept the land from sea to sea.
 The battle wages unceasingly be- tween that faction which acclaims Mary Pickford an actress and that fiction which considers her merely a sweet enchantress.
 l have seen the majority of her pie lures since she entered The Famous Players, and I hold with the disputers who say that she can really act. I lave seen her give some wonderful impersonatiCns of character as far from her own as Tampico is from Hudson Bay.
 Miss Pickford's Famous Players service has been in Los Angeles and in New York. For awhile she main- .ained a home in the California city, and in fact gave it up only early last summer when returning to her New York apartment for more or less per- manent residence.
 Miss Pickford is simplicity itself, all that she does is based upon and springs from that simplicity and rtter sincerity, and believe that were she the crowned queen-absolute of half the worl dher naturalness would be unchanged.
 Nothing hurts Mary Pickford as much as sly allustions to an aloof- Eess, a snobbishness which some newspaper writers have pretended to find in her in recent months. And just here it may truthfully be said that Mary Pickford, whose features are better-known than any, cne's save Roosevelt CT Kaiser Will felm's, is one of two or three people in the world who are popular enough t, cause traffic-jam on the streets of New York City at any hour. This chsession of the populace does not distract her except when it interferes a:ith her work, or her necessary out door strolls for relaxation and rec reation.
 At the present time Miss Pickforc and her remarkable mother, and her husband, too, are in New York. MT. Moore is at the Triangle Fort Lee studios.
 Mary Pickford is a devoted, sincere wife, and at some distant day | would rot be at all surprised to see little family clustering about her, for chill iren are her adoration.
 And of course everybody asks: What does Mary Pickford do with her money?" . SEe doesn't squander it. She lives rrostentatiously, but well. l had luncheon with Mrs. Pickford and her daughter not long ago; both wore simple, pretty frocks which, while unobstrusively in the mode, would rot have been extravaganza for the wife of a young tradesman. And In her plain black leather purse Mrs. F;ckford carried $16,000! Lest you think she habitually totes that tidy sum for carfare, I may add that she was on the way to her bank.
 Until few months ago, at least. the principal form of Pickforl invest ment was bonds Of the United states.
 Miss Pickford's contract with the Famous Players concludes just about the time this issue of Photoplay magazines reaches it's readers. Many are the printed paragraphs which aver that this contract won't be re- newed. Perhaps it will, and perhaps ;: won't but as I am writing these lines the outlook is favorable for her continuance in the features of Adolf i4Lkor.