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Show I $7Mm0Mbrd$-G Pt&itiesl? I Almost Every Nation Has at Least One "Little Marv" of Its Own, and There's No End to JtoX - I EeS"tm" 7 of the most charming and the Foreign Imitations of Bf'NM SXjSi I Charlie Chaplin, Theda bt p k Bara and Many Other of H Our World-Famous Motion BBEifc- I I " I daHfefc original Mary Pickford, vhose success on the fc LjflHfliH screen has been so notable that she is to-day & , W ated of any of our I Loth, whose w " iwwRtt Sweden's contrib'Jtion to the inter- he has every . :f 'jjj&Sp fords" Sigrid Holmquist, reason to call herself the "Hungarian Mary Pickford" mjt' -'MeJByFl Jft whose? beauty and charming 7E ARE so used to the movies, V here in America, that we don't appreciate the fact that we are the real pioneers, progressive and past masters in the art of the motion picture. All over the world countries are taking their first uncertain steps before the motion picture camera and beginning to register primitive emotions of their own And in almost every case the very first thing that happens after the studio has been obtained, the sets put in place, the light made right and the camera focused, is the trotting out of a sweet young lady with many and evident blond curls. The young lady arrive! at the center of the stage and holda it. She-may She-may be "shot" close-up or at a distance, but she is in view almost every foot of the reel. And when the film is released, the young lady with all the yellow curls is billed as : The Czecho-Slovakian Mary Pick-ford Pick-ford The Swedish Mary Pickford The Jugo-Slavian Mary Pickford The Patagonian Mary Pickford And 6o forlh, with the adjective varying according to nationality And so it has come to pass that any land that is making its own moving pictures pic-tures has its local manifestation of that smiling young person with curly golden tresses who has been enthusiastically enthusias-tically called "America's Sweetheart." And before any foreign land ha3 been in the movie business any time at all, it has as many varieties of Mary Pick-fords Pick-fords as Mr. Heinz ha pickle . They call us the New World. They, j on the other side, take pride in their antiquity and patronize u.-. We may be . ingenious and hustlers and mechanical and business wonders, but for our art i and our culture we must seek the venerable vener-able fountain heads of the Old World. t Ah, they had us there! But that was before there were movies. Now when they chide us wuh being upstarts and parvcnu3 in the art3, and when they charge; "You came to us for I where, K pray, ,d y..u ,m M".': '. f, ' 1 . , thened that Ml.iv lVkf-.r.i &'v; V " fi V: f '. " 1 v stuff?" HsK 'SSjkb ' kW- Amen- V. .,.jr mo-.- , . ;' I ' ' g canstar and our very pretty " little act less, v.v ; .. , '. t 'f ''n: have created a type ' f jfr'' ,..-iA as definite and ron V ,f:kfS&"'' 1 & . ', manding as nnj- t '' . .-, V''"" ' ''' ( f tinner F.urope over ' 1 A j ' gave to us- And as . 1 other continents . $ ' '' ( ffi . 'i have imitated our ' 1 f&y. I ; moving pictures', '' ; ? -' ' ' ' r, A even so have they j " ( ' ; f4 imitated our Mary J j L t j'K ''" ' ' '' ' ' ' Pickford. j I j ' i " M , ':' ' ? . ' : ,' ; as ci Brit- t English Roscius. " 'fU'ij , ' ; ': ' :rty&S Charles V was ft; . ' . ;' ' ' '..'fL known as the Solo- mon of France. William Wilkie was U rmed the Scottish -,y Kl p.-tc., 1; ' 'tfaMliiffi'' "A Milton. Sorn- gave :o Sicinius Dentatus ;he surname of the Roman Achilles. But the American 5omething-or-othcr has not been conferred con-ferred hitherto as an honorary title jpon many of our distinguished citizens. But u grand total of all these foreign itles would not begin to equal the per-'ectly per-'ectly astounding aggregation of foreign jditions of Mary Pickford Fiance U said to be leading the field or lather the screen with more Jary Pickforda than any other nation. ) 1 he most '?--fffifffifia; 1 ii h " amazing es-t es-t i m a t e is made that at one time or another in their career as many as 1,200 film actresses in the Land of the Lily have been known as the "French Mary Pickford." Most notable of these, perhaps, is the charming and petite Mile. Dorys, who wears her hair down, with a ribbon on it, skirt short and socks. Strange to say, she is sometimes described as the "French Mary Pickford," a title which occasionally is varied to the "Mary .vi i v, who is heralded as soon to make a visit to America, is nicknamed the "Mary Pickford Pick-ford of Hungary." Miss Loth, who recently re-cently won a beauty prize offered by a Hungarian newspaper, is going to tour this country, perhaps on the proceeds, and study the American method of moving mov-ing picture making. Perhaps she will Signora , Hocabert, who plays i'mk. vampire roles so well that her admirers call her the "Italian Theda Bara" even study Mary Pickford. These are, of course, only a very few of the foreign Mary Pickfords. Only an article of the proportions of a telephone tele-phone directory would permit the nam-ing nam-ing of them all. Sweden's contribution to the international array of "Mary Pickfords" is Sigrid Holmquist. and many good judges think her beauty and charming personality come nearer than any of the other foreign imitations to equaling those of "Our Mary." But while "Our Mary" may be preeminent pre-eminent in her movie doubles abroad, she is not the only star of the screen to have them. For instance, there is Senor Buenos, who makes up with a derby, a small black mustache, a cane and large shoes, and would you believe if he is called the "Spanish Charlie Chaplin." Although his make-up is identical, his methods are different from our Charlie's. Instead of custard pies, the Spaniard throws the bulls real bulls in the arena. We in America have not gone in very much for vamps in recent productions, but those energetic ladies always figured largely in the earlier phases of movie development. Italy has one, Signora Hocabert, who has become such a popular popu-lar vamp in that sunny land she is med-itating med-itating making a film debut in tho United States. This dark lady has been called Italy's most beautiful screen star the vampiest vamp of the Italian movies' and, unless we are very mUch mistaken the "Italian Theda Bara." And so it goes all over those domains of this mundane sphere which lie outside the limits of the North American continent, conti-nent, which no doubt is known as the Capital of Movieland. If you are traveling travel-ing and you go to a movie where an athletic young man is cavorting around rescuing damsels and engaging in sword play with a whole raft of villains, you will not need to be able to read the language of the natives to know that the hero is labeled tho "Danish Douglas Fairbanks." If among tho strange flickers of a screen way off in Africa, you note a And Z dSSte T8'-hcrS T8'-hcrS f, ,, An,crf Thr . .:r: zri |