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Little Annie Rooney. Mary Pickford, after several seasons as a great lady, has once more returned to short skirts and wistfulness of the type that made her famous. After competing with Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson and the rest for the honor of being America's fiancee, she returns to the role of America's sweetheart. She plays Policeman Rooney's daughter; throws tomatoes and has her bare knees scratched. Her best loved young man is nearly killed by a bullet and saved by a blood transfusion. Miss Pickford looks as young and lovely as ever...
...Harold F. McCormick 168,276 John J. McGraw 2,544 Clarence H. Mackey 320,490 Edward B. McLean 255,729 Dwight W. Morrow 290,344 Pola Negri 15,108 Meredith Nicholson 1,586 Ignace Jan Paderewsky 16,161 Ann Pennington 1,641 Senator Lawrence Phipps 157,741 Mary Pickford 34,075 Col. William C. Proctor (Ivory Soap) 22,888 Sergei Rachmaninoff 8,026 John D. Rockefeller Sr 128,420 Theodore Roosevelt 1,061 Col. Jacob Ruppert 37,111 Babe Ruth 3,432 Mortimer L. Schiff 459,410 Charles Scribner 53,662 Zalmon G. Simmons (Beds) 250,378 Harry F. Sinclair...
This was his reaction to a dispatch that had every indication of veracity; a story that, in Los Angeles, three men had been arrested, that the police had been tipped off and, shadowing them, had heard them plotting to kidnap for $100,000 ransom first Mary Pickford, then Pola Negri, Buster Keaton and a four-year-old grandson of Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate. The story came with apparent veracity of circumstance. One or more of the prisoners was reported to have confessed; they faced long prison terms for criminal conspiracy...
...think Mr. Bryan is worth hearing on any subject, regardless of whether he knows anything about it or not, Intellectually. I have the same interest in Mr. Bryan's ideas of evolution as I have in Henry Ford's ideas on the prose of George Moore or Mary Pickford's ideas on the theory of relativity, or for that matter, what Queen Victoria thought about the procession of equinoxes...
...story circulated recently to the effect that Norma Shearer has signed a long contract with Goldwyn which will eventually net her $1,000 a day. Miss Shearer is a fairly good actress; but if she is worth $1,000 a day. ... In this adventure, she cooperates with Jack Pickford in the construction of a power plant for the citizens of Rainbow Falls. There is at one point a fairly ingenious sequence stolen from the recent end-of-the-world scare...