Silent Movie History - Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford

This four page article is a wonderful read for many reasons and the chief among them is that the journalist hated Los Angeles. The New York writer Karl K. Kitchen is dispatched to Beverly Hills to interview the recently divorced Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and he seemed to have had a nice time with the two of them, so much so that the Hollywood Royals invited him to dine at their house. The whole article is written in a very chatty way and there is one small, but distinct, slanderous aside referring to Jewish power in the young film industry. Los Angeles at that time is largely remembered as a city that smelled of Orange blossoms and was often likened to a garden, however this writer will have none of it: the town is filled with frauds and lousy restaurants; in short, the place is just plain dull and there is no hope for it's future.

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