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Show RITES PLANNED 1 ' FOR FAIRBANKS HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 13 UPK mourning film colony la preparing great and final tribute to one of Its most Illustrious members, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. The smiling, dashing star of "Robin Hood" and similar successes suc-cesses succumbed early Tuesday at his Santa, Monica beach home, a few minutes after he had asked a I nurse to open a window overlook-! overlook-! lng the sea he loved. Friends Indicated services would be conducted tomorrow, with , burial at near-by Forest Lawn; where lie the bodies of Will Rogers, Jean Harlow and other screen greats. Definite decision awaited the approval of his widow, the former Lady Sylvia Ashley, who was prostrated and under a phyii- j dan's ears. Sadness blsnketed all Hollywood Holly-wood as the surprise news of Fairbanks' Fair-banks' death from a heart attack became public. Few had known he was ill, and even his physicians ordered only an enforced rest-Tributes rest-Tributes came from many In high places and messages of condolence con-dolence poured in to his widow wives, Beth Sully Fairbanks, Doug Jr.'a mother, and Mary Pickford,-were described mx trial stricken. |