, 1921-07-30
Mary Loves
Her Home
/ wANT q home. and hnbIc..

i All my life II has been my enc
great desire to possess a home.
Not a palace. mind you. with servantl
In livery and great big musty-sme.,-
ing rooms built merely TO oyerwhe.ni
the WIKI their masaincence.
What I always wanted was 4 real
home. beautiful. OF course, Lut A
place wholly Iivabis. tone in que:
tones and furnished In exquisite
taste.
wanted II TO he situated On i
hill. commanding an unlimited view
Of the surrounding country. fer 10
me nothing stimulates the ina ina
iicn more than to iook out rpon 4
bread sweep OF landscape ,hrozsh
unobstructed eyes.
And after dreaming "a lust such
a home ever since was big enough
10 build castles in the air. the dream
has az last come true.
But We stin work hard, Douglas
AID /.
When engaged in picture-makinS,
our family retires at . o'clock. No
photoplayer can possibly succeed
and keep late hourF.
The n thing The motion picture
patrons must have In their heroes
and heroines is youth. Theatre
gers demand 1t. also. but in The
thc1tre # is easier 10 eamou1ays
wrinkles than before the pitiless eye
of the camera And we all know.
even in the case of stage stars. how
often women and men. 70 on and on
long after their charm has left them
-a1woxo nffff,,1 ~Na,&a.to- - 1~-f-.
tr.umphing i've sensei
Sufficient rest is absolutely nccas-
snry. and by sufficient rest ! mean
at least nine hours. Tor myself. |
prefer ten.
Of course. IL 1t is between ai-tu-cs.
then we are not so regular with oar
hours. Often we remain up until
midnight, especially when entertain
ing.
Real Home Folks
In saying that we are real hotae
aaopie. ! mean the statement liter
lily. for we go out very little. When
re do go. 1t is nsunils for an e.
ended trip. consisting OF 4 iotor
oar or. perhaps travel abroad. In
his. fashion. we get the diversion re-
CURED. But at home we prefer to
nead or listen to good music.
While neither Douglas nor ! 2iay
N instrument. many CT our friencs
20. and occasionally we have an
orchestra COME N from outside.
USUALLY when we have guests. Be
side all this we have the phonograph
and nany fine records. There IS
hardly a book in cur entire COLES
tioa that is not wei thumocd. for
both my husband and are voraclous
readers.
From what l have said. ! ;hink
you will get a fairly impress
sion Of onr bc.le life. u is-se-y
simrie. and we try 20 keep It traiy
American, and above all, free rom
psetence or aifectation.
During the making OF Ctr 3a-a1-
features our stories are auT eaiy
companions, for we live with tiicai
always. night and day. trying to I'M
provo them. to perfect them. TO pol
ish them=doi3g everything possihIe
TO gire them the highest entertain
ment qualities possible TO devise. 1.
And in doing it all, We .try 70 re-
main just plain home folks.
am determined that I shall never
face a amer after l get the nrst
intimation hat my work is no longer
pleasing all my public. The one
y good thing about II is thai there Is
a definite way to determine thts.
When the box Office returns from aay
picture Of mine fall below the aver
age earned by my last 20 pictures
] shall disband my organization and
go into a retiremen that will never
be marked by an re-emergence!
1t is possible-and this is a littis
confidence I have never voiced for
publication before-that after
make my last picture / may go back
into the theatre and essay one role
in the spoken drama.
OF course | have a natural dfsfn-
clination to follow in the footsteps
: of some of my sisters of flmdoM--
who recently bTazenly traded on
their screen popularity TO attract
audiences in the spoken drama. And
IL | ever do play a speaking roic
again, I should prefer to go under IN
assumed name-if such a thing were
possible-and by so doing prove that
l wished my success or failure TO bs
independent Of my reputation IS a
I film actress.
: After all, in my case, I was an
a actress for ten years in the spoken
A drama before / ever entered the mo-
/. ton picture world-and ! have a
] right to want to go back to the foot
lights once again.
Butyover and above everything else
the real happiness ] like to think
= about is the home and family / hope
the future will bring me. / have al
, ways had a home and a family. of
: course-nuch more so. it seems TO
me. than yer girls who are not IN
I the professional world. Ever since
] can remember there have been ny
mother and Lottie and Jack for mo
I TO think about and work for end be
: considerable of. And II has really
been the hnppieet part Of my life
FIST hayin- them.