Evening star., 1933-12-09
SCREENS GREATEST
love REACHES END
Mary Pickford Charges Fair.
banks Neglected Here in ).
Filing Divorce Plea. 4
Dy The Asseeiased Press.

HOLLYWOOD. December Glove
that came to them in the maytime OF
their 1ilm careers and blossomed into
. marriage that for years was regarded
as Hollywood's perfect romance had
found its end today for Mary Pickford
and Douglas Fairbanks in q brief but
revealing divorce complaint.
In cold and concise legal phraseology.
Miss Pickford. known to millions Of
theateryoers ~ "America's sweetheart" 1"
wrote an unhappy finale yesterday to
what had been considered filmdom' s
most beautiful love story. Supporters
OF Hollywood often referred to Doug
and Mary" Is the answer to the ques-
ton: Do Hollywood marriages endure?"
Thirteen years ago the lovely Mary
told friends she was "blissfully happy"
Once she said Fairbanks was the "one
great love in her Itfe," but In her divorce
complaint she described him as being
mentally cruel 10 her and Indifferent.
LACKED Consideration"
She pictured him as being other than
the brave, heart-storming hero of a
dozen cinema dramas on which he built
. reputation as being one of the screens
greatest swashbuckling lovers. The
lovely Mary accused him of neglecting
her. OF having caused her embarrass-
ment and humiliation.
FOR her feelings and sensibilities, she
charged, the globe roaming Fairbanks
lacked consideration. He had what his
son. Douglas Faibanks, jr., described as
"gtpSy-foot," Miss Pickford claimed, and
publicly announced he had no interest
in life eXceDt travel
That" she said. destroyed the legi-
innate ends Of matrimony."
Doug roamed at will over the face
OF the earth, she complained. and was
absent from home for months.
That" Miss Pickford charged.
caused much public criticism and un-
fair comment"
Prior to june, 1890, when Fairbanks
is said to have disregarded her wishes
ana 70 have assumed an attitude of IN
dlnerence toward their marital status
Mary travelled with him. visiting titled
ana royal friends in Europe. Then
Feiroanks began to wander alone, she
SAID, and the public began to talk.
Keeps Pickfair.
For the past several years" the
actress said after the complaint was
MED, my married life has become in
creasinsly unhappy. Being convinced
tnat under existing circumstances the
iuture oners no solution, it Is with the
deepest regret that ! am filing suit for
divorce"
Pickfair, the great mansion aton
Hollywood hin which Mary otter op rsp
ferred to as her dream home" ye.
mained IN her possession under a pron-
erty settlement effected out of court.
she said.
She consistently declined to COM
ment on the numerous rumors reaching
ho!lywood connecting Faifbanks' name
Win n least one titled English woman.
Some months ago Americas sweet
heart" admitted she and Fairbanks had
separated
Il love my husband" she often re-
marked. Il don't say there will be a
divorce. Divorce from some one YOU
love as dearly and tenderly as have
loved Douglas for 10 years Is almost an
unbearable thought.
BesA Married Before,
wood fairy tale. They met in the stu
dos and the closing months of the
World war saw their love in the bloom.
With Charlie Chaplin, the film come
dian and their intimate friend, they
toured the country In . Liberty Loan
drive
Miss Pickford had been married to
Owen Moore, film actor and had di-
yorced him. Fairbanks, then. was mar
ried to Beth Sully. but they had virtu-
ally separated. Soon after. Fairbanks
was divorced and he and Miss Pickford
In Los Angeles on May 70, 1920.
Once they appeared together in .
motion picture, The Tanning of the
Shrew."
Friends said the flrst signs Of trouble
appeared In that picture. In the role
of Katharine, Miss Pickford became a
secondary character. Fairbanks "stole
the show" and her attorney, Lloyd
Wright. said that was one Of the things
Miss Pickford referred to when she
charged that Fairbanks lacked eonsid-
Grafton for her feelings and sensibili-
ties"
Today Miss Piekford was en- route
East to spend the Christmas holidays
TAIRRANKS STILL SILENT.