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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 24 (Supplement)

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j Douglas Fairbanks Returns from South Seas. Mary sat for’ard in a speed boat on : the afternoon of May 9, and was mod--1 est, although fourteen photographers » were gazing at her with admiration. She was just as charming and sweet l as in her pictures, and waved a hand : to friends ashore. L The launch dashed at twenty-five knots out to the quarantine grounds ; of the Golden Gate, and Doug, was hanging over the balustrade or coaming or whatever you call those things • that keep people from falling overboard from the liner Monowai. There was a wave of a dainty arm and “ Halloo, Doug,” and return grunt, 44 Halloo, Nuisance.” And so America’s sweetheart and America’s he-man film hero greeted each other—Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Three or four or perhaps five stalwart Customs men took Mary in a queen’s throne and passed her from the speed boat to the Customs cutter. The yellow flag fluttered down from the Monowai’s foremast and Mary was passed across the chasm to the gangway. There was a film greeting for the great crowd of camera men. Doug, who has endeared himself in the hearts of reporters by making a noise like a gentleman and a he-man, said in a loud voice: 44 Come on, Mary, let’s do it before the camera.” And they did—and how! Douglas Fairbanks was on his way back from making a 44 Modern Robinson Crusoe ” film down in the South Seas. 44 1 chartered the schooner Invader/ 4

he said, 44 which met me in Papeete. Great stuff that sailing around the edge of a typhoon. Seasick? No. “Of course, I understand I am known in far places, but I can never quite explain how perfectly the people of the Islands joined with me and gave their assistance. Their dramatic instinct is marvellous. I believe the new film will be a winner.” In the South Seas. Mary Astor and her husband, Dr Franklin Thorp, of Hollywood, are at present cruising in the South Seas in their thirty-six foot yacht, Henrietta. Harold Lloyd Again. Harold Lloyd’s latest comedy, entitled 44 Movie Crazy,” is nearing completion.