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Show Mary Pick ford Uses Real Natives Na-tives in "The Love Light" "1 have iioen asked many times, explained Mai") Pickford diirltiR tin-filminit tin-filminit f "The l,.e KiRht,' her latest United Artists production, whti li Is now playing at ! A.lbambra theatre, the-atre, erhj I went to the r-xpfiise and trouble of securing some or tic member mem-ber f mi 'iist abroad and others in New York and brlnflng thom to '.ii- Ifcruli io uiip.-ai with nil' In this picture, pic-ture, at reason i Juai this: "The picture Is supposed to be laid in Northern' Italy in a little fishing village on the shores of the .Mediterranean, .Medi-terranean, an out of the way place that i seldom. If ever visited by tour-lals tour-lals and it is ;i spot that Is not SI all familiar to Americans. Imagine what a ahoi I', it would be to an andlonci lo see Mime famili.n- face which they had nerhups seen a day or so before In some Anivilcan picture, step out of these unknown Italian environments. "I always do my best to give the players of our local California film colony positions In my organisation wlunevei possible utid i h.ive -Mit..i-ed manv a point to Jia e them with nif in previous pleiures. But before going to Europe I saw a beautiful character prayed splendidly, but the negl night i I -aw another picture In w hich the same old man vrn.s a gambler In a tough western saloon and you cari Lm-; Lm-; aglne the shoc k it was to me to see ihls : transformation. Tiie two plolureti were probabb I ken months apart, and of (.otirse. .aiialil player can portra) i manv and various characters, bul the , fbo' k of my fe ling 's v k r-. i when I Saw t!i' v-l old man of tlx- night before In the role; of a tough gambler thai when Frances Marion and myself decided to do this picture. 1 thought it best to bring entirely new tocen to tho screen. su that the r cognlrwn of fani-i fani-i lliar faces might not.' Create jarring note. |