, 1921-06-12
my LIFE"
AS Told by MARY PICKFORD
BY HAYDEN TALBOT

wv roonsr.-1u she ran a boarding house, And that's what
But Il isn't true we eve had boarders.
H. 4 rs. admit hat ! ssn Z 50 ss muca d'S ne~ i o made mosS n ye NJ sa senra sns
upset And. I suppose there is a differences. when o com to think
m any event. the truth is that we did 10 ever. 1t n time. TAX. IN
One !, !. .seasr. knew the ma ,as ssm- q, The = local stock co company am.
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a.a sssPs Not ss- 'ss. ( haven. %z ' sssss:s f s.sv. s'9 %ss , iss:: .i Int 's s. that
gay . ssa%fa ss = It ss showed is.ss right then. ! suppose most no.ssSs:
As s.s i4er sssss @sss s sss.s. 's si1sassssy ' ss : enc ias 's s Ct ssa ls' a1 sssssss,s'
But . such mothers "a * e s5 a : word right hero and nov And
D There f,o a4s m np1e worse places thai the stage and nan worse environ
~'n I w ! IN the the world a@nd Of the theatr for ten solid y.ars- IN that time /
s ssHssao many p ss' n II s %sas sa@ eS@ 7 nessr heard ssld a a ord spossa. never :
@eui se' As s9sSs ssa out ns ssrspls e . il s the S@t soma on ssrsh- -
d. no nsa ss :, Women ! !. -h @s ~srs . . my 1a nislsas kind and soasias.sss~svsa
e : @ ni S.a asa an 70 ss those s sw 9 Who 70 ak. easier h pain q rsasa.
smoked . drank in M prssencsp-to these actor folk / m and ever
For they an without psessrsnseaent. without perhaps conscious
= H's slssn .n nsns sass rs. ses sDanls e s a@ girls a De. wasrsvsr they ar
4 this momens-cod bless them AMI
Mother took M. 10 The { ma manager as r herself H. was kind Il me and
sailed for, : ehnd actress. Of course I a szauisssiy thrilled :. the
Y with other children Of M " .se I had "aetsd"-tn nashS0r''
Ar ct with with bent Ma p,ss . the I sss,, fs''
But ! had loved Il more more. than IAN. much u. :. Ai assos before 20 "a "a ~ n ms Sr az s' =
s sss t. a5s to di sssw q sse Il ! nsss SaS IN sssse 0 fr0m s'on : unsuspsesd
had promised I should play in a really. TRULY payI was on ART
& That first performanc stands out tndeuhiy in my mnd YER now.
1t was the most wonderful thing I ever went through. ! a suren othins
again will ever equal the joy that was mine that night I WASH a DIT
eraid.-I loved 1t.
twas fahy1and taken bodily gu Of fairy books and made real to me
Tor me u entera and leave. to live in a while. and then retur to
dane sphere-only to dream OF the gorgeous Mysteries that Lived behind
thc footnghtst 49,
~ ~ Fifteen Dollars q Week
Not a whit less wonderful "a that first salary Envelope. VIII us App'
new rvedonar bnls-three OF themt Fifteen dollars! -
X Almost s much 5 mother received from her ocmers anre ttnan
she earned with her needle Ii the SAND length OF ttnei Why 1t "a nothing
less than marveiousi= Nf -x,.,- I.
Emakebelevet 49, - StSs. Z 80 -
Had the salaries those players received been n unreal as the roles
hey played. !. the ssiorIousIy happy, artificial lives they ied-oehind tn
naNghtsI shout felt that they were to be envfed 20 an
people. To hare in their joyous hours n to be paio Tor IL m actuai COIN
Pn the realm-wen. 1t "a quit too wonderfuu' -,
IS At first my chance cam infrequentfy Fer week at a Il IN tn stoch
conpany,s bill would include 10 chnds part Al uch m wowo %
nearly disconsoiate. But then would con n CART peau.huh pv-
tessonai word that above every other means most &c your actor I'll. y
10 begin asx.n. - -.
IL For ten vears-untn. 1 ws fhteen-I worked In h theater. gave
70 my work all M nthushsm ,aft hc study an N zeal winch u en"a -"
love with what it is doing will give. =.
Is 1t too much o say that IN this period l iearneu my us"eN 49,
| earned IT thoroughly. / wonder. - IL.
In n event I smile often whcn I think Of HI many wise eenhemen,
sth large tortoisesne spectaces who sigh deeply and eve ven &c pro
found regrets that motion pictures should have recruit their most u
[rssfrI stars from among Tho ranks of amateurs with n 10 knowledge OF tn
World o. the spoken drsnai 49, -. -.
Enthusiastically so. a CIV non and women w Vita e1 6smn n !. r.