The Washington herald., 1920-06-13
BIDE DUDLEY TELLS
OF INTERVIEW WITH
MARY AND DOUGLAS

We entered q room at the Ritz /
yesterday afternoon. Over the CEN
ter table leaped young man with
his hand outstretched. says Bide
Dudley in the Evening World. |
We'll. Bidie," he said. How are
you? know what you want-a
good cigar Wait! I've got some"
He leaped over the baby grand
and disappeared in another room. |
Soon he appeared with a cigar box |
and, kicking aside two of Mrs. Ritz's
best parlor chairs, handed us good
smoke. Then he grabbed our hat
leaped high in the air. hung the hat
on a chandelier and, bounding over |
the back of a settee, he sang out:
sit down."
We had met our old friend. Doug
las Fairbanks.
Doug, dear" said a low feminine |
voice from the other room, Don't
tear down the hotel. Wait minute
and I'll get you some wire nails to
bite.
The owner of the voice entered
and we met Mary Pickford.
Miss Pickford was gowned in
blonde broadcloth with filigreed
shoes and a hat built like a beauti-
full buzzsaw with teeth turned up.
so you know DOUG" she said. as
she took a seat near US.
Yes" we replied. Eight years
ago we met him in the lobby of the
New York Theater. 'Bidie,' he said,
I've been offered 100000 to serve a
year in business. Shall / or shall i
mott
Take it, we said. Twenty thou
sand will buy lot of cakes"
He did, and now look at him.
He's the husband of Mary Pickford.
Success"
Miss Pickford smiled and we for
got Doug was alive. Say" we !
brazeply to the Queen of the |
Movies, what attracted you to this |
fellow. Fairbanks. onyway?'
His wholesomeness. his gay
spirit and his pep" she replied.
Are you Jealous of him.?
Pooh. OF course not"
He isn't very handsome, is he?"
"Ooch" came from Doug. You're |
not handsome. yourself, old boy"
It's time to end this deeply inter- |
esting narrative. Just to refute the !
statement made by Mr.. Fairbanks, I
however we're going to print note |
written and handed us by petite |
Mary right in front of her husbands
eyes. 1t says:
II really think you are a hand !
some man, Mr.. Dudley.
MARY PICKFORD."
At the opening of George Whites
Scandals" at the Globe Theater' |
New York, recently, somebody ask
oh
Has in the second balcony, re- |
pIied Henry Young, the theaters
treasurer.
why? This is his house"
Mr.. Dillingham; always sits up /
near the roof on opening nights
said Mr.. Young. He likes TO see |
how the people in the less costly |
seats receive a performance. II
they like il he knows the show Is
hit, If they don't, he knows Just
the opposite. Mr. Dillingham; De-
lieves that the people in the pal
cony and gallery seats are there |
merely to enjoy the snow. ne
knows that the profit in theater
lies in the money that is paid for !
the balcony and gallery seats That !
is why he chooses a seat away up |
near the roof for opening perform
ances in his house"
Mr Dillingham; is right. Any |
show that doesn't attract people TO
the balcony and gallery will fail |
to prove a winner financially:
Vivienne Segal, a young woman /,
twho was seen from time to time |
last season in THE Little Whop- |
per." has departed for France ON !
La Lorraine. She intends to spend |
considerable time in Paris selecting |
gowns to match the complexion she |
wants to wear next season In
now Harlbach-Friml piece which ,
will break out of its shell some |
time in August. After Paris has
been canvassed down to the last |
decollette creation in the Boulevard |
shops Miss Segal will go to London !
to see Edith St. John portray the
part in THE Little Whopper" with |
which Miss Segai mingled her curls !
last winter. The Little Whopper"
is now running amuck at the
Shaftesbury Theater in London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks,
a newly married pair who slipped
quietly into New York last Tues
day. filed a box at the Cohan The
ater recently with the honeymoon
Collier set a new worlds record for
the funny bone over three-act
distance in The Hottentot." Mrs.
Fairbanks was formerly known as
Miss Mary Pickford. Fairbanks
was at one time an actor on Broad
way stages, but he retired from
such activity some time ago and
since then little has been heard of
him.
The summer season on the Zieg-
field Roof was opened last Monday
night by F. Ziegfeld jr., with the
"Follies'' ball, an annual event.
All Broadway was present, the roof
being taxed to its capacity. Art
Hickman's band, imported from
California. furnished the music for
the dancing and it proved a genu-
inc treat. Among those who ap-
peared in the entertainment were
Marilyn Miller. Eddie Cantor. w. c.
Fields, Fanny Brice, Lillian Lor-
raine, Delyla Aida, Van and
Schenck. Carl Randall. Dolores and
Bert Williams. 1t was a night of
gayety for all concerned.
woravuec Under Way.