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"I suppose so. You see it was this way: we were talking about certain swabs of whom we were ashamed, and he mentioned you." "Don't tell him I am here," said Bob quietly. "Why?" "Never mind don't; I daresay he will find out soon enough." "Anyhow," said Pickford, "he is awfully popular with himself just now; I hear he is certain to be a Major in a few days, and will be Colonel in no time.
"But you men are all alike, aren't you?" "Is that why you've taken to cradle snatchin'?" says I. Mirabelle executes the wide shutter movement with her eyes and finishes with what she thinks is a Mary Pickford pout. "Really, I don't think I get you," says she. "In other words, meaning what?" "Referring to the boy, Vincent," says I. "Oh!" says she, eying me curious. "Dear little fellow, isn't he?"
These included a number of war films showing operations on the Western Front and productions of Fairbanks, Farnum, Billy Burke, Eltinge, Hart, Mary Pickford, Kerrigan, Arbuckle, Bunny and Chaplin. During May baseballs, gloves and bats have been supplied by the American Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoons religious services were conducted by chaplains of the American Force.
But the fool of a director met her at a party, and said she would photograph well and ought to be with them. He offered her a salary, and it went to her head. She's young," he added, "and he said she could be as great a hit as Mary Pickford." "How sad!" said Aggie. "But of course she refused?" "Well, no, she liked the idea. It got me worried. Worried her people too.
Pickford had already begun the business of a Carrier, but he was hampered by want of money. Mr. Baxendale helped him with capital, and for a time remained a sleeping partner; but finding that the business made no progress, principally for want of management, he eventually determined to take the active part in working and managing the concern.
It was entitled "Good Maxims and Advice." "An old servant of the concern observed, a short time ago, that he began life in the employ of Pickford, upon low wages, and that by frugality and industry he had gained a competency. His maxim was, never to spend more than ninepence out of every shilling.
Of course I have always known him to be a fine soldier, but I never knew he had so much of the fighting devil in him. Man, you should have seen his eyes burn red he was just like a wild savage. I think he forgot his duties as an officer and gave himself up to the lust of fighting." Pickford had scarcely uttered the words when a man came up to him. "I say, Trevanion's missing," he said.
It has more of the fireside wonder-spirit and Hallowe'en-witch-spirit than the Cinderella of Mary Pickford. There is a Japanese actor, Sessue Hayakawa, who takes the leading part with Blanche Sweet in The Clew, and is the hero in the film version of The Typhoon. He looks like all the actors in the old Japanese prints.
This type sometimes loses its gentleness after marriage, and always has an ideal woman in mind. Some one who walks like Pauline Frederick and smiles like Mary Pickford. Diagnosis: Normal love, with idealistic complications. Prognosis: Condition less permanent than in case A, as less essentially monogamous. Should be careful not to carry the search for the ideal to excess. Third. The cave man.
He had left his sword behind that was of no use to him now and would be only an encumbrance but he had his revolver ready to hand. Feverishly he looked around him, but nowhere could he see the man he sought. Still, he had done his duty; he could go back to Pickford and the other fellows and tell them he had done his best and had failed. But he stayed where he was.
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