MARY PICKFORD SHY.
For the first''time in twenty-two years Mary Pick ford,' ' "the world's sweetheart,"' had stage fright at the''Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London/ lately, when she appeared in person on •( the stage at the showing "of her latest talkie, *'itiki.", But few of the thousand people' and the lyenty-seven policemen ■Who awaited her > ' arrival—thirty.five minutes late—'realised that she was shaking with nervousness. , • ,■/ , While Douglas'- Fairbanks was waving to the crowd ; outside, * all Mary, could do was to maintain, ft stiff., but charming poise born apparently of fright. Many times, lias Mary Pickford been invited to attend.-, the premieres of her films in Hollywood, but always she has refused. It. took.' three days of solid work by her London representatives to get'her to consent to go to the Regal on the night in question.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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134MARY PICKFORD SHY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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