Sophistication. Early in June, newspapers published an account of the arrest of a number of men in Los Angeles who, it was charged, had conspired to kidnap for ransom Mary Pickford. The editors of The New York World, sophisticated, published the following editorial:
PUBLICITY FOR MOVIE STARS All of us will find sympathy for Mary Pickford, Pola Negri, et al., who were marked as victims of a kidnapping plot. The worst of it, no doubt, is the publicity involved. To the average person this might not mean much, but to a moving picture...
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