Roscoe (Fatty) AYbuckle, erstwhile film comedian, arrived in Victoria on Tuesday on his way back to California. after a tour of the Orient. Although the public knew ahead that ha was a passenger on the steamer President Madison, his visit to the city was unnoticed. The icy feeling of filmdom towards him aroused his anger, which was intensified by the fact that he stepped ashore on the same day that Victorians had given a wonderful reception to Mary Pick-fond and Doug. Fairbanks, stars -atill shining brightly in the cinema firmament. "I see that the King and Queen have been here," was his comment to a newspaper correspondent who interviewed him, a sarcastic slap at the manner io which Mary and Doug. had been received, Unprecedented scenes marked the arrival of the idols of the screen in Vancouver. Although the newspapers had only been able to advise the public three hours ahead of their time of arrival, 10,000 people massed at the pier to get a glimpse at them. "Mary," long the queen of the moving picture -world, is: a Canadian girl, born in Toronto as Miss Smith. In the hour spent by the couple before boarding a O.P.R. train for Eastern Canada Mary and Doug. were nearly killed by kindness; they were in actual danger of being seriously injured in the press of the throng desiring to get just a glimpse at them. Thrilling and exciting movie scenes were re-enacted in real life with Vancouver spirit. There was the flight of the pair into hiding in a small O.P.R. office, the breaking of the barrier in the waiting room at the pier, the triumphal carrying of Miss Pickford through cheering crowds to the station, and then the smuggling of them down to the waiting train by their protectors. Police and railway officials were taken by surprise, the trans-continental train de luwe was delayed in its departure for 20 minutes and many politicians with reservations who were going to a great provincial convention in the interior of the province missed their special train owing to the crowd waiting to see the stars refusing to budge.
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