Life a Nightmare .
Mary Pickford “Tunes in With the Infinite.”
NEW YORK, December 13. AT ARY PICKFORD (Mrs Douglas Fairx banks), the cinema actress, infonfied a “Daily Xiws ” reporter as follows:—“I found that I had gone as far as I could in the material world. There is no happiness in wealth or fame. Most Hollywood successes are tragic, and the life is a universal nightmare. We need an awakening. “ I had to seek God to tune in with the infinite. Now I find I cannot get enough of it, so I dare speak on this delicate subject in order to help others. After all, what does one lifetime amount to in the face of infinity? “ God is all there is of love that I know; but do not think I am pious. I never attend church.
“ I began to study this religion about ten years ago. My belief is something like New Thought, but I am not affiliated to any organisation. “ It is through our affliction that beauty comes to us.”
“ When I was a child,” wrote Mary Pickford recently in a magazine art ; cle on “ What Religion Means to Me.” “ I thought of God as a severe old gentleman with a long white beard. . . . Who spent most of His time trying to catch people, and particularly me, in mistakes and sins for the sole purpose of punishing them.” Since then, Miss Pickford says, she has come to understand that the keyword of Christianity is love. “ The world is grasping for something beyond the tottering material effects. It wants religion, it needs religion, but more than anything else, I believe, it needs a restatement of religion, the lifting of a helpful and beautiful thing out of intricate definitions and gestures into something as simple and as useful as breathing.” A cablegram from Montreal on December 9 stated: “ A Los Angeles message states that Mary Pickford has filed a divorce suit against Douglas Fairbanks, whose interests, according to his wife, are solely in travel. This led to an estrangement in 1930. Mr Fairbanks is at present on holiday in Switzerland.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 945, 15 December 1933, Page 6
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