The Melbourne Press has been concerned in a controversy as to the authenticity of a claim by a South Melbourne Councillor, Mr. Moroney, that the film star, Mary Pickford was born in that suburb of Melbourne. It is claimed that her mother and father came to Australia in the nineties and dwelt in Doreas Street. South Melbourne. Whi ident there the Six weeks after her birth they are Canada, where they lived for a time Toronto which city also claims to be her birth. place. It is her father was a French-Canadian who followed the profession of trapper. Mr. F. Ince, secretary of Royce Films Ltd, supports the South Melbourn claim saying the Gladys Smith made her debut five years of age upon the stage and is known professionally as Mary Pickford to all the world.
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