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"Possibly" said the American with an understandable touch of s "I'm Douglas smugness Fair-bank- Jr" shak- ing his head "Guess I'm wrong Mixed you up with somebody else — fellow on my ship named John- son" If this story is true the captain must haTe been one of the relatively few adults in the English-speakinworld to whom the aggressively handsome face of Douglas Fairbanks Jr is not known g 48-year-- BEST KNOWN FACES - As acto producer businessman amateur diplomat and socialite Fairbanks has one of the best known faces in the United States and England The son of the late silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr he has appeared in scores of movies more than 200 television films and acted in many plays Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip have dined as his guest not once but social actwice a double-barreled complishment that turned certain hostesses green with envy The fact that royalty has singled Fairbanks out in almost un precedented fashion has churned up a wave of acid criticism in his wake as he sails through London society "Social climber" sneered one envious matron "why the man's the Hillary of them all" (Sir Edmund Hillary scaled lofty Mount Everest in 1953 — but he did it only once) "When they call me a socialite" said Fairbanks "I often i Any Utmt TroiUr Mttel Wood Ere Porforwod by oxptrf mechanics Glci wing the mott mocforn qulp-mo- nt PIONEER 3019 WetK Till Fairbanks 100 4 Beautiful Colors -- 4-89- O GREY O DESERT BEIGE O MIST GREEN Reg $1395 d i O SANDALWOOD near-missin- g I I nn DAU6UHG CORDS APPARATUS Oil BODY I I Lluvi I in fact i wiains I I fTfP(f with tho now LwuLALlviavii fabulous I - 1 I' Ph EX " Easy Credit - 9 If See Try and Compare Them! 44 IT IT-CO- MPARE r J s 1 1 vim liUyi Phone EXport Ogderi Utah 2-21- 63 I 1 CARPET AND FURNITURE CO "It's Worth Your White to Drive a Mite end Save" 3700 PJverdale Rocd 3-53- 14 69 It 11 A Ys -it- --- from OLD tojNEW in Minutes t If i m it? i i II f J Jn l I 1 r f i M - ' ' f r " life C 1 YA Y i f: I - Instantly Removes Dirt and Restores Color to Faded Upholstery Fabrics and Rugs! is a chemical blend of cleaning agent and dye formula It actually lifts off dirt while it adds new fresh color All you do is sponge it on Clean-Tin- t can't rub off also helps resist soil It's odorless Be economical be modern clean color beautify — Todayl in one application with Clean-Tin- t Clfian-Tin- t non-toxi- c non-inflammab- le 00000&Zffffiw --- 12 :famous for diamonds' ! 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Fairbanks' detractors — and he has them as any man in his position would— claim that with the house as his base he embarked on a relentless hunt for big social CO Ph IX - of knows how to throw them The first time the people who live in Buckingham Palace came to his house he had a couple of singers to entertain them They were Maurice Chevalier and Cab Calloway Royalty was delighted with them and with Mr Fairbanks Asked after the party if the Queen recognized his Knight of ing: "With electric power gone ra- the British Empire by calling him dio shot away with German "Sir" Douglas replied: "I don't think she called me shells continually straddling or his ships he success- anything" Then he hastened to add: ?But the unit behind a deployed fully a I answer to anything — sir comsmoke screen and emerged in mister and hey you'" mander new and tactically superior po I :'Lm entertaining" j MEMORIAL & well-publicize- like unique parties PURCHA: "What an enormous dining room" remarked a friend who was being shown over the house by Mrs Fairbanks just after she and her husband moved into it "Oh well" said the new owner "we mean to do some serious Large or Smelt Trvckt Furniture ld He closed with the enemy and after an intense exchange of fire "both German ships were sunk" It was while in the US Navy that he met Lord Louis Mount-batte- n He becameva staff member when Mountbatten was chief of combined operations Mountbatten uncle of Prince Philip introduced Fairbanks to the husband of the Queen That was his introduction to royalty Prince Philip and the Queen BIG DINING ROOM SAND BLASTING Auf party sition" outlets CUSTOM — game He begged them — unquestionably But it is probably unfair to a handsome charming man with a busy life a pretty rich wife and three growing daughters to blame a big elegently furnished house on social ambi- Both Fairbariks and his wife have been divorced Born in Bluefield WVa 44 years ago Mrs Fairbanks was the daughter of a dentist Dr Giles Epling In 1932 when she was teaching kindergarten in Camtion bridge Mass she ran off and Fairbanks is a busy man Three married George Huntington Hartheir to a 200 film companies list him as a di- ford the million dollar grocery chain forrector He's also the director of tune a camera company and a ball CHILDLESS MARRIAGE point pen business and runs a consultant company on imports-export- s In 1938 their childless and wonder what the word really marriage broke means I entertain about three WORKS FOR GOVERNMENT In the divorce settlement up times a year I dine out about "Now and again I do an odd Mrs Hartford reportedly received once a fortnight Does that make than xk million dollars job for the government" he says more married me a socialite?" Fairbanks shortly "Which government British or She afterward She had met him first BORN IN NEW YORK American?" at a party given by Merle Oberon "Both" Born in New York City in DeLess than a year later Fairbanks "And your businesses?" cember 1909 son of the swashinherited whati his friends say "I handle many products — from buckling toothy actor and Anna was about $600000 from his faBeth Sully of Province Rami popcorn to autos" A Sunday newspaper recently ther's estate Fairbanks had marHe made his first trip to Britain ried actress Joan Crawford in said of him: when he was 5 months old and was divorced in 1933 "Everyone knows everything 1929 Later young Douglas and his converFairbanks mother stayed in a hotel near about Douglas Fairbanks except sationalist andis a a bright man He friendly perhaps that he has made 5 milBuckingham Palace in all walks friends has he — lion says out dollars of TV and to was it my delight "They say the but life of photosigned march up and down with the stands to make a lot more" include on his walls only He laughs at the idea graphs sentry outside the palace" he people wish it were true I've "I recalls Looking down on his enormous Forty-thre- e years later he can worked since I was 13 and I'm a desk are pictures of Sir Winston to man like I'd I asbut stop lazy walk past the sentry with the the late King George Churchill can't" a surance of a man who is on perand Mary and former Queen 6 He five am about up gets sonal friendship basis with the President Truman days a week and hurries off to a folks inside King George VI made FairOver the years he has re- studio to work on his television banks a knight of the British turned regularly to England films which are shown in this country and the United States Now he lives here Often he doesn't return home "When am I leaving?" he re9 pm and then it's for more until a to I'll "why plied question work He says: stay here as long a3 they'll have "I'd really like to be an exeiu-tiv- e me" STORAGE PIANOS of a travel agency and spend ic Douclas Fairbanks Jr is an en At ?V packing OF baggagi thusiastic Anglophile but one my time inspecting the offices in ic FURNITURE ANY KIND of world corners the the far betwho is dedicated to fostering "I'd like to read all the books ter understanding between BritSLADE TRANSFER never read I'd like to take I've ain and the United States His London home is a lovely two years off knowing nothing Agenf North Ammrltan Van Un house in a fashionable section of could go wrong But— I've got reAcross the street er across town He bought it from the Duke sponsibilities" the Nation of Leeds a few years after ths THREE DAUGHTERS 231 22nd Street v war are of these Three Dial EX daughter? Fairbanks claims it's an unpreMelissa and Victoria Daphne "WORLD WIDE MOVING" tentious place but "it has an incoming-ou- t was a It Daphne's side telephone system with 10 many "Sorry" smiled the American "may I share this cab with you?" "Sure" replied the captain "but say your face is awfully "No" said the Navy man (Editor's note: A man ofj talents Douglas Fairbanks Jr an American has become a favorite host for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip her husband While English socialites sneer and call him social climber Fairbanks smiles his way through British life busily making money winning friends raising a family and wondering what the word socialite means) hlsi tre- mendous social success by appearing at Royal Ascot Race Course the following afternoon looking as smiling and relaxed as if he'd been on a vacation The Queen startled court circles by inviting the Fairbanks to the royal enclosure— a place from which divorced persons are supposed to be barred— and telling them how much she enjoyed the Empire If he were an Englishman this would give him the right to be called Sir Douglas and his wife Lady Fairbanks Fairbanks served the United States with bravery and distinction in World War II Foreign governments have decorated him with everything from the Southern Cross of Brazil to the Star of Italian Solidarity As a naval officer in the war Fairbanks earned so many decorations that when he wears them it looks as if he's walked through an explosion in a paint factory Seeing him in his decorations at one of his clubs exclusive White's in St James Street a member is reported to have exclaimed: "Good God Capt Hornblower" Fairbanks however had an outstanding war record The French government decorated him for one piece of outstanding fighting say- Trr V jf |
