WEPT REAL TEARS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3448, 30 March 1920, Page 7

WEPT REAL TEARS.

MARY PICKFORD-‘S BEST PICTURE

VANCOUVER, March 18.

A message from Los Angeles states that in :1 small and dingy Courtroom at Minden, near Reno, Nevada, Mrs Gladys Mary Moore wept real tears as she pleaded Judge Langan for a divorce.

The trick was done, the tears dried, and the fair divorcee wars speeding homeward again before the enterprig. ing LOS Angeles reporters discovered that Mary Pickford had scored in a real human interest film, with her husband as a fade-out. Rumours of Mai-y’s possible divorce from Owen Moore had been aired for a long time, e.ven -outside filmdom, that the World’-5 most popular movie actress was not living with -her husband. Last ‘year, when Douglas Fair. banks.’ wife -divorced that athletic wonder, she alleged his fondness for a certain popular film idol. No corespondent was then named, ‘but. it was more than rumoured that Mary and Douglas were exceedingly friendly. and that the business alliance, already accomplislied between these great film stars, would be followed she-crtly by their marriage. Nothing happened at the moment, and really nobody was prepared for the story that came without warning from the little Nevada town, Where Mary finally went to secure freedom. 1 It took the best part of the day 5 to establish Mary’s identity. The ' Judge was prepared apparently to deny he had ever heard of the name of Pickford, but w-hen the name, Mrs Gladys Mary Owen Moore, was searched for, he was obliged to admit that it was she.

‘‘ A PERFECT GEN'I‘I..'EMAL\'. ” Desertion and incompatibility were l\l:ll*y’s pleas. Tearfully she told the Judge that Owen Moore was “a perfect gentleman and :1 devoted husband.” But theirs was :1 boy anfl girl inarriuge, and she could not get along happily. “They had been apart for mally uionths aheudy, so why keep up the farce?” she demanded. Owen Moore was not present in Court, but the aftorneys representing him were zlctu:llly assistiiig the proeeediixgs I':lthei' than placing any obstacles in .\[=.ll'j;."s way. His. a‘rtitude was acute sorrow, but he was not willing fo deny his wife/‘S slightest wish, even including :1 divorce. ‘Moore udiiiitted fC(',hlliC2l]. desertion.

i In order to 11111110 cel"t:lin that she ‘would pass 11n11oHced, Mary had :11‘rived in Court shabbily attired, aej eomp:lllied by two small children, not her own. She told the Judge that she had e;~:1:1b1isl1ed a residence in Douglas County, Nevada, in Janiiary. “She 111:1de 110 request to resume her 11111111911 1131110, 11.1111 she did. not ask me for any alinioiay o:'del',” said .Tll«.'lge Legzin, as an zifterthoiight. MARY CAMERA 81111.’ If .\l':l:*y was slle-eessful in arriving at the Court without publicity, she (:el'l':zillly was not allowed to return home that way. The newspapers sent; out nearly their entire staffs, and a. dozen eiferts were made to interview her, and Mary was literally flung into the centre of the screen.

Bravely slie faced the downpour of rain for the dash from the platform towards the San Frallcisco ferries, but her she had 110 more luck than in her fzunous new pictu‘l‘e, “Pollyanna.”

To interview her aboard the train next mornig, one bold reporter pushed his way into the train stateroom aisle, where Mary haughrily ordered him to begone. She was ill, and had nothing to say., SllO Said. In her new picture, the audience applaud when she reaches the Oakland terminus and falls headlong into a puddle inclle§_'€lcep.

In this real Oakland exit she hurried along under her mother’s protec-~ tive uzhoulder, and with veiled face fully hidden, was defying :1. score of no\\'.<p:lpel' photogl‘a.ph.ers, when suddenly she slipped to the pavement and sprawled in the mud and water. She burst into tears again and the reporters even took pity and desisted their efforts: to interview her until she regained her composure.

XVILL NOT MARRY FAIRBANKS.

'l.‘\vo days later her manager issued a dignified. statement, which Said; “.\lisS Pickford secured an uncon~ tested divorce, because she was unable to continue incompatible relations with lxer former husband. She ‘feels exceedingly hurt at the unkind stxggvstion tlmt she got a (]i\,~m-cc in place her in El, position. to nulx'l'y Doug'las Fairbanks. She has no infonlion of nmrrying Fuirbzlnks, 01- anyone else. Miss Pic-.l<for(l will conscienti.mlsly devote the remztinder of "hmlifo to moving pic’r.ure art, am] llm‘ :1l(m(‘. Hlme will not marryzxnybmljy." The very velwmeneo of l\l':n'y’.< Ileninl of any int'onti<m to nlfll‘l'_\' Fairbmvks taken by 111ai1}' 11e\\'.<paper writers to mean ’r,h:l’r the que%stion is :1l1'on(l}' uppornxost in he‘: miml.

“What is more natural,” Sll;_}'Q‘(?:%‘.'S

one writer, “thzux that it film actress, who scored the longest and greatest success, should ally herself in home life, as Well us in bll>'ille.<;<_. with :1 man who is I'ocogni.so<l as the loader not only of picfuro:s tlllezllsel\'os, but of the pl(:‘:111‘C illdust‘l'y?"

A PAIR OF SC‘Rl‘3El\' IDOLS. It is idle t deny that the names of ;\la.ry and Douglas are coupled in the popular estimation of the people who are in close touch with the greatest. film interests in §:<ont.llez'n California. These will certainly all be disappointed if the match is not made before many months elapse. In t':xet, one subject, most .'mtereste(lly discussed, is wbu.t effect will the expected Ina:-riage of these two superdivorcees have on the popularity of their pictures. It is admitted that the notoriety Fairbzlnks reeeived last year did him no good, and Mary's friends are privately urging her to be CLll‘(‘fLll with the fickle public. Both the screen idols have the finest houses in Los Angeles. Fzlirb:mk.s is interested in all sorts of busiiiess ven-

tureg outside the “movies, ”und up-

parontly he has made :1 su<:cos.< or‘ :1 more than more posed entry into oil and mining clltcl'pl'ises_

On the other hand, Miss Pickford is seldom seen in the Los Angeles streets. She lives ’lYlo<stly at 21 fine siock ranch in the village of Genoa, where local rumour has it that she is tart as to temper.

Cul'iousl_V enough, Owen Monro, though never rtmking as :1 genius in filmdoul, CnjC)'S :1 wonderful popularity in these days.