The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-28
Two Varied
Types Meet
atLuncheOn
iona Gale Entertains
Mary Pickford at
Publicity Fete.
BY EVELYN SEELEY
IImra snsrIaI MrItsr

NEW YORK. Nov. 2s.-Nobody
- but a press agent would be
able 10 think OF Mary Pickford and
iona Gale IN the same breath.
They seem 70 me as far apart
as any tao women you could men
ton But. after all. the book sell
ING world Is entitled 70 Try any
thing once II wasn't long ago
that William Lyon Phelps took
Gene Tunney by the hand and
presented him 70 his class as a lee
Jurer on Shakespeare.
So Miss iona Gale"-the invi-
tatiOn Tead--gave a buffet lunch
con for Miss Mary PickfOrd at the
sherry -Netherland % congratulate
her on the publication Of her FIRST
book. Why Not Try GOd?'"
Here stood Inez Haynes Irwin.
smiling warmly al iona Gale, say
ing. shes the sweetest person n
tie world. and the kindest. al
ways remember Charlotte Perkins
Gilman when she said. II ever 60
20 heaven 1 expect 70 see iona
Gale walking down the street. and
then / shall feel right at home.
And back IN ShadOwy corner
sat a White-haiTed woman, not a
celebrity at all. with tears IN her
eyes from the mOmentOusness OF
being III the same room with the
angelic Mary PickfOrd.
Hitting Literary Trail
Mary PlCkfOrd is going Dravely-
end perhaps Drazenly-AteraTy. She
IS leaving no stone unturned on me
road back 10 the lImehgnt. Literary
Iuncheons are a new phase Of ex-
perIenCe. and she takes them IN
her stride. She marched up 10 Ger
trude Stein the other day at tea,
Chatted a long time. then was
pho. ographed with her.
And the literary world receives
Mary PlckfOrd as an author. Fer
who hasn't a book 10 seu2
Was iona Gale sponsoring the
lunch for Miss Pickford because
both are interested in God? Their
concepts Of deity are quite different.
Miss Gale said 10 me recently,
we are on a scientific exploration
of life and death and the great I'M
known areas Of consciousness"
Miss PickfOrd writes. All the
good that there is can Be ours right
now If We but tune in with God
1 have had many griefs and many
trials IN my life had TO learn
TO stop trying TO be Atlas and carry
ing the world on my shOulders-to
stop wearing the captains cap and
let God do the navigating -"
Miss Gales philosophy IS analyt-
ical. mystic. abstract II is an OIL
shoot Of intellectually rather than
emotion Miss Pick Ord's Is plat
itudinous and practical.
Makes Strange I10ie Mates
Miss Gale Mrs. BrcsCe1 lives sim
ply IN a small Wisconsin town and
has a walled-in garden. Miss Pick
fords career has kept her in the
spotlight of show places and hotels.
I suppose they are not far apart
in age, vet iona Gale Is a middle
AGED woman and Mary PickfOrd still
looks like Americas sweetheart with
her curls cut of. Miss Gales voice
is low and shy; Mary PickfOrd's
rather high and childish.
Some guests wondered. Are they
old friends?" and 1t was learned
that they had met two hours earlier.
Mary PickfOrd was there as part
Of a publicity program that is bring
ing her back 70 the public and show
ing them that. whatever Douglas
Fairbanks does. Mary still has her
pert little chin in the air.
iona Gale came. 1 believe, out
a. kindness and because she holds
that in a bewildered world the idea
of GOd-vhether IN her terms or
those Of a movie starts important.