The Washington times., 1920-07-29
SAYS MARY BOUGHT
4 MILLION DRESSES
Fringed at Top and Look Like
Undershirts, Doug"
Declares.
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machine showing flms ten years old.
Everybody in the world knows
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
Everybody apparently Is happy
they're married. Almost as happy as
Doug and Mary themselvs. They
knew them, Doug admitted. in places
where they never heard OF Wilson or
the League OF Nations.
The whole thing impressed the
American stars. 1t Impressed them
particularly that here was a prac-
tically virgin field for American mo-
ton picture capital.
CENTRAL EUROPE FILM CRAZY.
why, think OF IT, said Doug.
There's central Europe. with about
800, 0,000, 900 people. all OF them pleas
urc-loving. all Aim crazy. and they
cant get enough pictures to satisfy
them.
"The English producers realize this
and they're going into the game
strong, But everybody knows the
English cant make Aims the way the
Americans can, and so it's up to us 10
get busy and shoot over 4 lot Of capt.
tai and corral a part of the field, al
least, for ourselves.
I'm going to Washington and get
the Government and some of the big
gest men in the country back OF IL
And IL they don't see 1t the way i do
why then I'm going into the business
myself and force II through. Man
it's wonderful, the opportunity that
Is there"
ROYAL WELCOME BACK
Mary and Doug arrived Wednesday
on the White Star liner Olympic. A
smashing great crowd of movie fans
was on hand to greet them. There
was band and a hollow square OF
policemen, and a guard of honor. and
cavalcade of automobiles. and a
procession OF bowling enthusiasts q
mile long. They escorted the king
and queen of the movie land to the
Ritz. and then blockaded the lobby
for hours in hope that their idols
would make an appearance. But they
didn't 1t has taken six days to rest
up from their European receptions
and they aren't thoroughly rested yet
Doug's right hand is swollen up like
a punching bag from the shaking II
received. Mary is in that state where
only the vision of sixteen trunks
thirty-two boxes and eighty packing
cases full of gowns and hats and
lingerie and other feminine what
nots can revive her.
PARIS AND LONDON.
But both Of them forget their tired
feeling when Doug begins to talk
about Mary's dresses.
rt.p Do ria % nd
Mrs. Fairbanks was just one gigantic
shop.
AS for London-it wasn't the
crowds or the boobies, or the dukes
and earls and countesses that ap
pealed to Doug.
1t was the blinkin white plug hats
affected by the best people.
1T doesn't matter where you are
it's who you're with that counts, re-
marked Fairbanks. as he grabbed
Mary around the waist and swung
her up on one Of his ample shoulders
"That's not the least little bi
grammatical, Doug. dear" chidet
lovely Mary. You should hav,
said"-
At that minute several thousand
whooping, bowling, perspiring movi'
fans, who had crowded in and arount
the pier at the foot of West Twen
tieth street to greet the Five-Ree
Honeymooners as they stepped off th'
Olympic, rushed the dock, headed b.
a delegation of fifty newsboys, who's,
leader held an accordion aloft and b.
pressing and pulling succeeded ir
squeezing out pint Of alleged mel
ody, though the medium Of which n
attempted to convey the sentimen
that there is positively and absolutel!
no place like home.
Lieut.. Tony Howe and his motor
cycle policemen were kept busy, and
more than dozen men from tn,
precinct, backed by mounted men, had
to lend q hand to keep the fans II
check. Doug had seen the mob breal