MARY PICKFORD

Southland Times, Issue 22214, 5 January 1934, Page 2

MARY PICKFORD

COMING DIVORCE SUIT.

Los Angeles, December 2. “Pickfair,” the famous Beverley Hills home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford will be dark during the coming Christmas, for the first time in years. Mary will spend the holidays in New York, while her husband is in the Swiss Alps. Friends of the couple have not given up hope of bringing them together again despite the bitterness of Mary’s complaint that her husband has humiliated her and caused her extreme mental anguish by his prolonged absences which have led to “much unfavourable comments in newspapers and periodicals'throughout the world.” When, years ago, Mary divorced Owen Moore, the case was put through very quickly, but Lloyd Wright, counsel for Mary, states that there is no occasion for speed this time. She has no plans for the future and if it takes one month or six to serve Douglas with the divorce papers it will matter little to her.

Mary is preparing to re-enter stage life—but not the cinema, for her screening voice has not improved with maturity. By a property settlement, Douglas Fairbanks conveyed ‘'Pickfair” to Mary’s entire ownership., The suit is not likely to be heard before April, and a year must elapse before any decree becomes absolute.