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Fortnight ago on Empire Day the city of Toronto celebrated its 100th anniversary with parades, speeches and banquets. As Governor General, Lord Bessborough had accepted an invitation, but, more important to native sons. Toronto's best known daughter, Mary Pickford, had come home for the centenary, stealing all the applause...
...bellowed Lord Bessborough. "Where is your Mary Pickford? Get on with your Mary Pickford show! Whers is the parade? Get on with the parade! And I want to know, my man, what you will say if I report to the King that I have not been properly received in Toronto...
...They pointed- out that to earn his keep a governor general has only to attend the functions to which he is invited and keep his temper. Only critic of Lord Bessborough to surfer was a radio announcer known as Uncle Al, who launched into an impassioned defense of Mary Pickford on the Gooderham & Worts whiskey hour...
...anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights on the wing of his plane. He made an astonishing flight of 28 mi. offshore to Catalina Island. He took up Mary Pickford for her first flight, turned down cinema contracts...
...Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Ireland, on a visit went Lady Sylvia Ashley and Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, corespondent in Lord Ashley's suit for divorce. In Philadelphia. Pa., Mary Pickford said: "Men are like little boys- when they are tired of being naughty they are glad to come home.'' Harry (''Black Panther") Wills, who retired from heavyweight boxing ia 1932 and now owns two apartment houses in New York's Harlem, began the one-month fast which he has kept every February for the last 20 years, explained why he was late in starting his 21st...