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Silent film legend Mary Pickford die#

By ALDEN WHITMAN c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service Mary Pickford, who reigned supreme as “America’s Sweetheart” in the era of silent films, died of a stroke Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 86 years old. Beloved in her heyday as a girl with goldenbrown curls and a smile of beguiling innocence, Miss Pickford was the first movie star to have her name in marquee lights, the first to be paid in the thousands of dollars a week and one of the first to achieve an international reputation; she embodied the American dream a person who rose by her own talents from rags to riches, indeed, to very great wealth. Miss Pickford entered films in 1909, when she was a 15-year-old stage actress, and came in to her own in 1917 with “The Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” For the next dozen years, virtually everything she touched was transmuted into success and fame, culminating in an Oscar for her role in "Coquette,” her first sound picture, in 1929. She outshone her contemporary female stars. Great as were the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy; Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri and Norma and Constance Talmadge, Miss Pickford excelled them all in box-office appeal. In the years of her triumphs, she captured public adulation in “Daddy Long-Legs,” “Pollyanna,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and “My Best Girl.” She ranked with Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., her husband, as the best-known and most admired of Hollywood personalities. She was perceptive enough to select the best photographers, directors and supporting actors, and generous in giving them credit; and she herself was a dedicated and hard-working actress. The advent of sound and the breakup of her marriage to Fairbanks ended her career. Her last picture, “Secrets,” made in 1932 and released the following year, was undistinguished, and she retired. “I knew it was time to retire,” Miss Pickford recalled in 1965. “I wanted to stop before I was asked to stop.” Expanding on this theme, she told Kevin Brownlow, the writer: “I left the screen because I didn’t want what happened to Chaplin to happen to me. When he discarded the Little Tramp, the Little Tramp turned around and killed him. The little girl made me. I wasn’t waiting for the little girl to kill me.” For the rest of her life Miss Pickford was the chatelaine of Pickfair, her bizarre Beverly Hills mansion, which she shared with her third husband, Charles (Buddy) Rogers. After a trip abroad in 1965, she took to her bed, announcing that she had worked hard since she was 5 years old and now deserved a rest. Except for occasional nocturnal rambles in Pickfair, she remained there, subsisting on light foods and whisky a quart a day, according to Robert Windeler, her biographer. At the zenith of her career, the 5-foot, 110pound Mary Pickford won the hearts of movie patrons because she possessed a look of invincible goodness and innocence. Sinister scoundrels, silent and gesturing, sought her ruin. She was brave and sweet through it all.

The switch LB Dirty tricks to stop Friday as *nbc Indy TV stations trade affiliates

By LISA LEVITT Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The billboard says WTHR-TV has mastered its ABCs and this week, it graduates to NBC. The advertisement, part of the campaign launched by ABC affiliate WTHR-Channel 13, announces the station’s June 1 marriage with NBC. WRTVChannel 6 will become ABC’s local outlet. McGraw-Hill, which owns Channel 6, announced last December that it planned to jump on No. 1 ABC’s bandwagon and dump its local connection with NBC, now running a poor third in the Nielsen national ratings. That left a miffed Channel 13 to pick up the leftovers. “The people (at ABC) who did us in are the people I’ve known for a very long time,” Channel 13 general manager Chris Duffy said. “I had some personal trauma about the switch, because it turned out I didn’t know some people as well as I thought I did. “It’s a foolish thing for them to do,” he continued. “This station is performing at a very high level.” ABC fondly hopes that Channel 6’s top-rated local news show will bolster its sagging national news show here, and WRTV general manager Jerry Chapman believes that will happen. “I think we’ll help it. That’s

When she played a rich girl, she exhibited humility; and when she was in rags, she was patient. By the standards of a later day, these filips were saccharine, but this was what audiences seemingly wanted as the country drifted into World War I and on into the unsettling 20’s. Jt did not matter that Miss Pickford’s curls, which appeared to grow longer as she greSw older, took an hour to prepare with curling irons. Nor did it matter that she was almost 30 when “Little Lord Fauntleroy” was release#, for she was a master of illusion. The impression of innocence that she conveyed was such that it was an event of much moment when she was kissed on the screen for tHe first time. That occurred in 1927, and the movie was “My Best Girl,” an amiable satire of lower-middle-class American life. The man she kissed was Rogers. A year later, Miss Pickford abandoned her little-girl image altogether by having her hair bobbed, “the most famous head of hair since Medusa’s,” one observer remarked. The shearing took place in New York on June 21, 1928, to the clicking of scores of cameras. Even after her fame was assured. Miss Pickford was a hard and meticulous worker. She was usually up at 5 a.m. and at the studio by & Shooting began at 9 and finished by 5:30, but often, because she had total control of production, she did not get home before 8. Pickfair visitors in the 20’s ate from a sohd gold dinner service, with a footman behind every chair. A formal dinner for a dozen, Wmdeler wrote in “Sweetheart,” might include the Duke and Duchess of Alba, Charles A. Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein and Lord and Lady Mountbatten. Those who knew Miss Pickford well invariably remarked on her business shrewdness and her parsimony. From 1919 to her retirement, she earned at least a million dollars a year as an actor-producer with United Artists, and then there were large sums from real-estate investments and her holdings in United Artists. Her fortune at her death was estimated at SSO million.

been the case across the country,” he said. “ABC news is building. I think they have a very good chance of becoming No. 1.” But Duffy isn’t so sure. “I don’t know what’s going to happen. People watch (ABC’s) “Mork and Mindy” and “Laverne and Shirley,” and they’ll continue to watch them because they’re their favorite shows. Channel 6 news will benefit ABC news, but some people will turn the channel to look for John Chancellor. Viewers look for the people they like,” he said. The winner in this trade-off remains to be seen, but many viewers have considered themselves the losers for the past five months. The impending change has them anticipating an end to the hijinks that began when word of the swap first came out. Since then, Channel 6 has doubled amount of network programming it regularly blots out with its own movies. April 1, Channel 6 began picking up ABC’s Sunday evening news show, while carrying NBC’s news throughout the week. The station managed to pick up the Sunday show because Channel 13 doesn’t carry it, and NBC doesn't offer a counterpart. In retaliation, Channel 13 has blocked some ABC pilot films and premieres like “The Ropers,” which grabbed 55 per-

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cent of the available viewers one of the biggest premiere audiences of all time and the biggest for a new show in the last decade. But Duffy says his station will stop the cover-ups come June 1. “That’s crazy to do that (block out network shows). We believe an affiliate should be an affiliate and carry as much of the network as possible,” he said. Chapman said Channel 6 would continue to run its own movie over network programming, but probably not on its current regular basis. Both men said mail shows support for the swap, although Chapman said some viewers aren’t really sure what’s going on. “There is a certain amount of confusion, but we expect it to settle down after a few Response have been very favorable because ABC is a very strong network. We intend to remain No. l,” he said. Duffy said he has received letters indicating that some Channel 6 fans felt cheated, by their lack of input into the decision to switch affiliates. “There really is a great deal of NBC loyalty in this market,” he said, adding that he believes that network will be even stronger by 1980. “Prime time takes care of itself. Historically, everybody gets his turn on the top.”