MARY AND DOUGLAS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 2

MARY AND DOUGLAS.

ANOTHER "ROYAL” VISIT. Pretty Mary Pickford is in London again. With her husband, Douglas Fail-banks, her mother, a little niece who is Mary Pickford the second, and Douglass brother and his wife, she is occupying the Royal suite at the Carlton Hotel. In the course of their visit to England they will bo the guests of Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten; in Belgium they will bo received by the King and Queen. A representative of the Sunday News found Mary already comfortably settled down in her English quarters. "Although your English' spring is supposed to be late,” alio said, “I will never forget the beauty of the pink blossoms we passed through on our way from Southampton to London to-day. The World’s Sweetheart looks younger than ever. In her simple suit of navy blue, with a Peter Pan collar of hyacinttiblue chiffon, she might have been taken for a just-out-of-school girl. DOROTHY VERNON. One of her first pilgrimages w-ill be to Haddon Hall, the home of the Dorothy Vernon who was an ancestress of Lady Diana Cooper. Mary’s newest film is ‘‘Dorothy Vernon,” which will follow “The White Sister” at the Tivoli. For the production of that film a new- Haddon Hall, modelled on the old one, was built up in America, English' pictures were passed in review for correct dresses of the period, and Mary read English history assiduously. “1* have let my part as Dorothy Vernon so become a part of myself,” she said, ‘‘that 1 shall almost feel I am returning home.” Referring to Lady Diana Cooper, whom she met in Now- York, Mary said: "1 think she is perfect in form and face. I think also that she is a real artist—an actress by instinct. “She is certainly the most beautiful Englishwoman I have seen.” Before they return to America in September, Mr and Mrs Fairbanks will visit Sweden, Denmark, I ranee, Spain an<i Russia. MARY'S BROADCAST MESSAGE. Miss Pickford broadcasted a message from the TiOndoii station of the British Broadcasting Company. "Although 1 live in America,” she said, "I was bo'-n in Canada, and I am proud that I was born under the folds of the Union Jack.” Miss Pickford expressed her delight at the wonders of Wembley Exhibition. Douglas Fairbanks also spoke.