Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1939 — Page 4

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Doug Fairbanks Sr., Dashing Film Hero Or Silent Days, Is Dead of Hea rt Attack

Family and Hollywood Are Shocked: Believed liness Wasn't Serious.

(Continued from Page One) spasm. He never had suffered anything like that before.” When Mr. Fairbanks died, serve ants called Mrs, Fairbanks from her room-—too late to see her husband alive—and then notified his relatives by phone. Soon there Was & parade of automobile headlights spearing the fog in a rush to Mr. | Fairbanks home. | Born in Denver, educated in the) Colorado School of Mines, hecause | his father wanted him to be a gold | miner, Doug Fairbanks took 8 fling | at selling stock. Then he tried sell-| ing hardware, but Doug couldn't get the theatrical bug out of his veins | Played in Stock

He played in Shakespeare reper- | tory and stock, and then he studied | law. on the theory that he ought to settle down. Tnstead he toured Japan, and upon his return went back to the stage, in “The Pit” for William A. Brady. That veteran said he never had seen an actor With such vitality, “You'd think the stage was going| to collapse every time he leaps moross it,” Mr, Brady once said. Tt wasn't long before Doug Was making acting an athletic endeavor. He sprang from the wings to the throats of his adversaries and he vaulted walls as if they were curbstones. His first movie for Mr, Griffith, entitled “The Lamb,” was anything but gentle He nearly broke his neck doing all the things the seript demanded, but the public ate up the result. Never before had they seen a movie actor do s0 many stunts and it was stunts that brought Mr. Fairbanks money.

Wed Mary Pickford

Soon after his salary had reached 24000 a week, Doug married Beth Sully, the actress who bore him his only child, Their marriage lasted only briefly. Tn 1920 Hollywood ran out the red carpets and turned on | the spotlights when it learned of] the greatest society event in the his- | tory 6f the movie business: Mr, Fairbanks, the most popular movie actor of them all, took as his bride, Mary Pickford, America’s sweetheart. The ceremony was secret because Mary had obtained her divorce irom Owen Moore only & few weeks be-| fore. But when the news leaked out there were such parties as to make | the old timers swoon upon recaliing them The champagne came by truckloads. Nehody ever thought of turning down a Pickfair dinner. The press agents went to work and the Fairpankses became Hollywood royalty. Then they were billed as the movies’ ideal couple and pointed out as object lessons for those who sald pieture romances could not last

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panizing United Artists Studios, a co-operative venture whereby they could keep most of the profits themselves, Their twin careers continued to boom and Hollywood never was more shocked than on Christmas, 1038, when it was learned that Miss Pickford intended to seek a divorce. Tt was explained that Doug wanted to chuck the movie business and spend the profits seeing the world; his wife wanted to stick to her movie career, Her than

suit was pending for more a vear while movie fans all the world speculated as to whether they would be reconciled More words were written about the decline and fall of Pickfair perhaps than about any other event that vear. But the divorce became final in 1934, Miss Pickford by then was a business woman of importance, With real estate holdings Hollywood, interests in enterprises, and a cosShe even found time to write an inspirational hook, “Why Not Try God?" Eventually she married Buddy Rogers, the band leader, When the divorce became final, resumed his world wander-

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ings. From odd addresses throughout the globe came announcements | of his production plans and his world of adventure, By 1935 Doug was in London and soon there was gossip about his dancing attendance upon the beauteous Lady Sylvia Ashley | These notes finally exploded in a major scandal, when Lord Ashley |

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he Washington High School des] aq ante O1TY, N. J. Dee. 12 bate team will debate the DePauw | (U, P) They found Trving Man. University freshmen team in Gireen. del, one ol he long -sought ih . | nessex ngainst the gangster Douls aitle Thursday, ol | (Lepke) Buchalter, today, but he The question to he debated Is “Re- qan't Be of much tse th the Gove solved ‘That the Federal Govern-| ernment, He's been ih the morgue ment ‘Ought to Own mnd Operate & week. the Ruilronds.” Another of the Mandel brothers, a Benjamin, who runs a ticket broker. Washington High School will send aoe ‘business fh New York, made two negative and two afMrmative the identification at 2 A, m, Tt tenths. Members of the former are wash'tjeasy to do. Tiving had been Betty Jean Schenck, Maxine Smith, | springled with gquicklime, Mable Mohr and Ann McWethy and | members of the latter are Betty body out of a shallow gra Jane Smith, Raymond McClure, woods near Folsom last week, Frances Silverman and George GeMeiner. Other members of the lo- and the lime hadn't onl debate organization who will at- work, except consume the clothes

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as corespondent, Doug said he loved Lady Ashley | and intended to bring her to America to wed her, | They went to Paris in March, | 1936, and were married after (wo | davs of widely publicized argument over whether her divorce from Lord Ashley was valid, Doug settled that by sending to London for the] papers. Doug brought his bride to Hollywood three years ago,

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TO 1940 BUSINESS

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. whether this upturn may be the long hoped-for recovery from the depression. It 1s true that this | period of better business had at least part of its origin in the stimu- | lus resulting from the outbreak of | the war, but some improvement was | under way before the war began | and that gave us added hope,” he said. He said, “we can have a durable recovery when business prospects become bright enough to induce large numbers of corporations to raise new capital by selling issues of stocks and bonds, and when our tax laws are so changed as to make it attractive for investors to take the risks involved in purchasing the new | securities.” | He chaged that in both the United States and France the “kev to the central problem of depression” was that “governments imposed upon business operations progressive and continuously changing regulations, restrictions, interventions and state competitions.” Colonel Ayres sald that as these increased and taxation mounted that savings of private investors almost stopped flowing into private enterprises, “High-powered money," as called funds spent hy business build new structures, increase | eapacity, improve equipment and | | introduce new products, creates new employment, he said. He explained that “low-powered,” or pump-prim-ing money, “does not make many new jobs.” “That relgpse of business activity late in 1937 was not merely A return | of depression. Tt ‘was alsd our greatest economic disillusionment,” the economis* said. “It tawght us that it was im- | possible to spend out way to lasting prosperity. Nevertheless we started on another program of pumppriming last year, and it was worked | well enough to give us another wave of synthetic recovery. “This upturn now has been sup- | plemented by additional stimulation resulting from the outbreak of war, and now we are wondering whether | it may not develop into an extended

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