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...They even exchanged lines of poetry from memory when they discovered, after a long lunch at the Prime Minister's residence, a mutual fondness for the poems of Robert Service.* Above all, Reagan succeeded by simply being Ronald Reagan, thanking the Canadian Parliament for such exports as Mary Pickford and Art Linkletter, and saying that the demonstrators who had marred his welcoming ceremony "must have been imported to make me feel at home...
...average, and prices start at $457,000,24 of them have already been sold. In California, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, paid $5.4 million last month for the 22-room mansion once owned by Movie Star Mary Pickford. Buss estimates that he will have to spend another $1 million sprucing up the place...
...winsome ways. Guinness, 66, who found himself "with a moist eye now and then" while reading his part, was beguiled by his young costar, Ricky Schroder, 10, who plays the Brooklyn tot turned aristocrat. (This is the third movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic: Mary Pickford played "Fauntleroy" in the 1921 film and Freddie Bartholomew in the 1936 remake.) Between takes at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, England, the lord and the knight discovered a mutual passion: fishing. Says Schroder of his new friend: "I like working with Alec. He's a nice...
...successor, however, never really developed. By then Pickford had become a Hollywood mogul as well as a star. In 1919 she joined with Fairbanks, Griffith and Charlie Chaplin to form United Artists. For years she had a firm hand in the running of the company. Her fortune was ultimately some $50 million, much of it from real estate. Unlike Douglas Fairbanks, she was frightened by the mass adulation that greeted their public appearances. It was unprecedented, the need of the public to touch these images when they appeared in the flesh. He thrived on it and restlessly roamed the globe...
DIED. Mary Pickford, 86, "America's Sweetheart"; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. (see SHOW BUSINESS...