UNITED ARTISTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12211, 8 August 1925, Page 13

UNITED ARTISTS

MARY BICKFORD, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Mary Pickford is very, very , proud of tho bequest made to her in the will of the famous tragedienne, the late Madame Eleanoi-a Duse. The gift consisted of the quaint little portable dressing-table which Duse took with her always on her tours. Mary declares that this Will be always one of 'her most cherished possessions. The R3;eat English-speaking public will persist in having Mary Pickford as a youngster. Although she is sweet and lair in any *»arb, and made the prettiest of Dorothy Vernons, the final arbiter in the matters (the box office), says with a clamant tongue that she must go back to childhood’s happy and he the curlybeaded kid again: and Mary (who by the way is not the least contrary) has answered-: "Very 1 well, public, if you like me that way best, you shall have me so.” Therefor*, "Little Annie : Rooney, a striking story of lively happenings in anv old lean street, built round the title of the old song hit, has brought Mary back to Kid parts, and what a wonder Kid she is, as one of the forty kids of the alley.- Mary is, one of the gang te the life—smutty faced, ragged frocked. tangle-curled Annie, daughter of an Irish policeman. Just an angelic little devil in petticoats.