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Terry Ramsaye, Motion Picture Herald, N. Y., August 19, 1933.

A Family Party given by Joe Schenck to Hiram Abrams,

President of United Artists. Do you recognize

Natalie Talmadge (married with Keaton), Bill Hart, Norma

(Talmadge), Hiram Abrams, Doug (Fairbanks),

Mrs. Talmadge, Buster Keaton, Mary (Pickford), Mrs. Charlotte Pickford, Natacha Rambova (married with Valentino),

Syd Chaplin, Rudy (Valentino), Connie (Talmadge), John

Considine, Lottie Pickford, Arthur Kelly. Standing

are: Allan Forrest, Dr. McFarland, Charlie Chaplin, Joe Schenck.

(...) Photo, Exhibitors Trade Review, May 2, 1925

& Guests of the party given by Joseph M. Schenck for

Hiram Abrams, President of United Artists, Los Angeles, 1925,

Photo by Weaver

& Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, and Charles Chaplin

at the dinner party held by Joseph M. Schenck

to welcome Rudolph Valentino into United Artists, circa 1925, classicmoviehub.com, detail

& Terry Ramsaye, editor of Motion Picture Herald

(...) Central News Photo, Motion Picture Herald, April 29, 1933,

detail

„Charles Chaplin‘s autobiography“

Editorial content. „Mistress Mary Asks Producers

      To Try Discovering America Again

      by Terry Ramsaye

      Mistress Mary Pickford, quite contrary, with golden curls,

pouting lips and Irish-eyes not always too unsophisticated,

put on a blue and white polka dotted frock and had some friends

to luncheon on a terrace of the Sherry Netherlands

in New York one day this week.“ (...)

      „NOW WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE I THINK

about a production policy that puts on the

screen things that can invade the home – no matter how

carefully guarded – with the lyrics of Diamond Lil.“ (...)

      „The talk drifted about to this and that and slighted

on the fact that Charles Chaplin‘s autobiography was about

to start its appearance in serial publication.

      ,I do hope that he puts in the story about the time he was

the only little boy that did not get an orange for

Christmas when he was a forlorn waif in an English orphanage,‘

remarked Mary. ,The world does not know,

and probably never will, the tremendous vital drama and the

desperate sufferings back of the art of Chaplin.‘

      MISS PICKFORD GREW MERRILY REMINISCENT

about Chaplin, recalling in glee the time, way

back yonder before the wave of Chaplin appreciation

started in ,better circles,‘ that Sidney Chaplin

came to her with an offer of $10,000 a week for four weeks

playing opposite Charles.

      ,Why – play opposite that moustached little pie thrower –

Mary Pickford in a pie picture – sir, never!‘

      ,I was handsomely insulted then,‘ Mary remembered,

,but you know I shouldn‘t at all mind working

in a picture with him now – except that before Charlie

got around to finishing it, they‘d probably be

wheeling me on the set in an old lady‘s invalid‘s chair.‘

      To be sure every one knows now what

a deep, firm friendship has existed these many years

between Mr. Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and

Miss Pickford. Many the whimsical story that Miss Mary has

to tell of goings on at Pickfair with that trio.

      ,And I remember how Douglas and I were all on pins

the time that we were to introduce Charlie and

John Barrymore at dinner at our house. In some things they

are so much alike that there was more than a chance

that the fur would fly.

      ,Well it all turned out fine. Douglas and I gave up and

retired at two o‘clock in the morning and when

we came down for breakfast the next morning at seven-thirty

they were still sitting at the dinner table,

talking so earnestly they didn‘t hear us come in.‘“

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