Evening star., 1924-02-06
cred. "who's been sitting in my

pered. "Who's been sitting in my
| chair?"
what" cried one Of the motion
picture duchesses only just recently
mean to say that l have to dress in
room with three other people?"
| Miss Pickford, however, whose
this other stars one, sat down good,
humoredly in a room with several
other performers.
How jolly" said she. according to
report This reminds me of the old
days at the Biograph when l was
If Miss Pickford has. indeed, any
vanity, it is focused more upon her
sense of being good business woman
than 1t Is upon her ability as an
this. and Charlie Chaplin. upon whose
warm personal friendship with Doug
las Fairbanks and his wife / shall
dwell in later chapter. Is very
fond m 4, o. Of ~, teasing nain{ her upon this one
"Where do you get this idea that
you're such fine business woman,
Mary?' Charlie asked her laughingly
one evening.
"Why, l am" she .retorted indig-
nantly. Everybody knows It,"
II can't see It," announced Charlie.
''You have something the public
wants and you get the market price
IOf H.
"And then" recounts Charlie glee-
fully, II wish you had seen Doug.
He looked as If he were going to
hit me-
A year or so ago I was at one of
author making his first visit to the
place He looked around at the din
ing room with the faces of so many
famous motion-picture folks, and
then he turned to me.
Dong
remarked. where are they?"
mo" said l, "and II you live in
Hollywood for year you'll probably
never see them--unless you go to
their home"
Poor chap. IF he had gone to
Switzerland and been told that the
Alps never came out he could not
have looked more disappointed.
ner at the beautiful home OF Mary
and Doug in Beverly Hills. The idol
of the screen. arrayed III a beautiful
evening gown, met with a manuscript
in her hand.
well, well, what are you doing""
asked her.
oh" she said, I'm working on
my story.
We ate a dinner where the talk
was all dedicated to pictures. Then.
as soon as it was over, Mary turned
to me. I'D like you TO see my new
picture this evening, she announced.
I'm awfuily anxious to know what
you think of IL and to find out IL
you have any suggestion to make"
l smiled a litt,e as | was led into
the projection room where almost
every evening the star and her hus
| band turn on their cinsistent diet of
amusement, for ] realized that in
this clever way Nary was going on
with her work under cover OF enter
tanning me.
This incident is typical of the
whole -souled concentration which I
am trying to point out. Every night
after dinner the star and her hus
band see some picture--either one OF
their own or that of somebody else.
In order to accomplish this they have
installed in their home Il machine
and, just as in the ordinary household
you turn on the phonograph. one OF
their men servants tunes up the silver
sheet. This home. by the way, pre-
sentS In its luxury a very different
setting from the little room where
her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks
there has been a marked expansion
in her mode OF living.
At s o'clock in the morning Miss
Pickford appears In her studio. 1t is
often late in the evening when she
leaves il. As to her working envi-
ronment, this has been so often re-
produced that ] shall pass over the
uproar, the glaring lights. the heat,
the long waits. the monotonous rep
etitions of every scene all those
features which make motion-pic-
ture day the most wearing in the
world Nor Is the work less exacting
when she is not engaged in actual