LIONISED FILM STARS.

GREETED LIKE ROYALTY.

SHOWERED WITH ROSES

LONDON, June 21. Enormous crowds assembled in Southampton and welcomed Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who intend to make a short tour of England. Aeroplanes whirred overhead and showered roses on the film stars. In response to cries of "Where's Mary?" Fairbanks brought his wife on deck. Sho is described as prettier tha a she appears on the films. Fairbanks said to intenriewers: "The 3ast time I came to England I worked my passage in a cattle boat." Theda Bara landed in Liverpool yesterday. The welcome given to Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in London was even more enthusiastic than thai} given the touring stars in Southampton. Indeed, the welcome resembled a Royal reception. The approaches to . Waterloo Station were packed with vast crowds of excited women and girls who burst the barriers and swarmed around Mary PickPord's carriageFairbanks stated that Charlie Chaplin was to have made the trip, but he misshed the boat.

"HELLO. DUGGIE!"

LONDON,, June 22. Three illustrated papers devote a couple of pages to Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks complains that he cannot emerge without urchins greeting him with "Hello, Duggie." The pair went to Chelsea this afternoon to a theatrical garden party in aid of the Actors' Ofphanage. When they, arrived outside it was impossible to thread their way through the* besieging crowd, and therefore theiicar was driven up to the Ifarriers; which, the crowd broke. .Douglas had to cany Mary above head straight to wards a tree, .surwunded by police, who eventually escorted them to. the enclosure. The surrounding thousands made movement impossible.

THE SIEGE CONTINUES

LONDON, June 24. Mary Pickford is still besieged in the Ritz Hotel by 2000 admirers, who are crowding Piccadilly outside the hotel. Mary has broken down under the strain, and her specialist has advised her to take a. holiday in the country, for wheh- she will leave immediately. ' Douglas Fairbanks (to whom she was recently married) .said that he knew 5 Mary was the world's sweethetvrt,* but re did not expect to have to take the world on his honeymoon.