BUSY MARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 27

BUSY MARY

STAR’S MANY ACTIVITIES RANGE FROM STUDIOS TO PUBLIC BODIES

WROTE THIRTY-ONE PLOTS

There are probably few women whose interests outside their vocations are as broad and diversified as Mary Pickford’s. Her screen work occupies about sixteen weeks out of the year, but the remaining weeks are no less active.

She is president of her own two companies, the Pickford Corporation and Mary Pickford Company, and is on the board of United Artists. Despite the fact that she has always been a very active figure in the latter organisation, these offices absorb comparatively little of her time and do

not suggest the far-reaching efforts that occupy her off the screen. Chamber of Commerce Her interest in trees and city beautification led her to accept a place on the real estate, parks, city and county planning committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and also on the citizens’ committee of parks, playgrounds and beaches. She is a member of both the Los Angeles and the Beverly Hills Chambers of Commerce. She belongs to the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, and the Beverly Hills Woman’s Club, as well as to the Los Angeles Assistance League. She is on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Studio Club, which is associated with the Y.W.C.A. in providing a home, under sympathetic chaperonage, for young girls without family. Miss Pickford selects her own stories and is the final arbiter in all discussions of them. It is not generally known that she wrote 31 of the short subjects she made in the earlier days of her career. This is the foundation of what appears to be a substantial feeling for plot and treatment.