THE WORLD’S SWEETHEART
NEW RELIG.IOUS CRUSADE. Mary Pickford, who has made a fortune from the screen, declared in London that “material things don’t bring happiness." She was discussing her new religious crusade. Admitting that she was going back to Hollywood, the actress who won fame as the “world’t sweetheart,” said that this did not nean a loss of the faith she has proclaimed in her books. “My faith is stronger and brighter than ever. But I am no great prophet who can bring comfort and healing to the mind of man. I am an actress, and as an actress I can best get my message over to humanity. My films will all have spiritual themes. “You see,” she explained, “in my life I have had most of the things people dream about —glamour, wealth, and success in abundance. Yet, lucky as I have been, there have been times when I have felt myself near the end of the road, when sorrow and despair have crept over me like a wet, black cloud. Then I have prayed for the faith and strength to carry on, and with that prayer I made a great discovery, something which has filled me with such joy and spiritual light that I want to share it with all the world.
“I found a power which could com-
fort and guide me, allow me to be happy within, although everywhere surrounded by trouble and heartbreak. “Some day people will learn that material things don’t bring happiness, and are of little use in making mer creative and powerful. Then scientists will turn their, laboratories over to God and prayer, and the spiritual forces which have not yet be'en touched.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 4
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