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Show Mary Pickford In "Rebecca Of Sunny b rook Fa rm 9 y Fore "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," Mary Plckford's now Art-craft Art-craft picture now at tho Lyric tho-atro, tho-atro, a small New England town was needed. If there- ever was a town transported from the green mountains moun-tains of Vormont and set down amid tho green hills of California, Pleas-nnton Pleas-nnton Is that town it Is as New England Eng-land as the oldest Now England village, vil-lage, oven to tho types of houses, tho llttlo hotel and the sleepy village streets. We only have had ono traveling show in tho Inst flvo years and thoy only stayed ono night and they wished they hadn't Btayed that long." Van then explained that It was a motion picture company and asked tho proprietor it ho had never heard of Mary Pickford. Tho hotel man thought deeply for a moment and then "allowed" that ho had heard somebody mention her namo bul didn't know much about that lad) himself. rli& ?iki? vis A.WW l ' Bebecca J- V-JmJuU' V-JmJuU' "a- oFgunnybroonfarrr ' ( -&& r. Tho Pickford company location man was sent to Pleasanton to seo If It would ho suitable for tho counterpart counter-part of Rebecca's homo. Ho stopped at tho llttlo hotel and told tho proprietor pro-prietor that wo was arranging for tho accommodation of Mary Pick-ford's Pick-ford's company. Tho proprietor said: "It that a theatrical company?" Without thinking, Van Zimmerman, the location man, sail, "Yes." "How long do you expect to stay here?" asked the proprietor. "Oh, about two weeks," replied Zimmerman. The hotel proprietor was astonished astonish-ed and said: "My! you can't get any audiences it you play two weeks Tho man who ran tho motion plc-turo plc-turo show happened to come in town and, hearing that a Pickford ropre-sentatlvo ropre-sentatlvo was there, rushed over to call upon him, "Yes," he exclaimed, "I always do well with Mary Plckford's pictures, pic-tures, and I always try to got them overybody seems to like them. I play ovory one I can get a hold of." "What did you like her in best?" asked Zimmerman, expecting to hear tho usual praise of "Poor Llttlo Rich Girl." Tho motion picture man studied a moment and then replied: "Well, I think the folks, liked her best in .'Carmon.' " |
