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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
|HE city of Denver exceeded the speed limit one fair morning in 188-4 — the morning of May 23, to be explicit. For it was upon this eventful date that the athlete of the cinema first opened his eyes upon the world and immediately looked around for his gymnasium apparatus.
He wanted action.
To go into detail regarding Douglas Fairbanks, perpetual motion of pictures, would be a waste of words so far as the public is concerned.
Parentally speaking, young Douglas' heritage was all that could be asked for by the most ambitious, for it spoke of brains and literature. His father was an attorney and a student of Shakespeare. It is presumed that the son could recite "To be or not to be — " at a very tender age, while endeavoring to hurdle the grand piano or the woodshed.
The family moved to New York in 1901, where Douglas secured his first stage experience with Frederick Warde. After a season of this, he entered Harvard as a special
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student, and then worked his way on a trip to Europe. Probably the "bounding" billows were his inspiration for this journey.
Upon his return Fairbanks increased his speed. He became a clerk in Wall street, where frenzied bulls and bears delighted his vision. Next he vaulted the counters of a hardware factory. He took a brief fling at the stage again, but shunted off into a law office.
Mr. Fairbanks' last appearance in the theatre was in 1914, the play being "The Show Shop."
But he began his meteoring when D. W. Griffith brought him into pictures. Fairbanks first gamboled about in "The Lamb." His successes since that time are: "He Comes Up Smiling," "Arizona," "Knickerbocker Buckaroo," "When the Clouds Roll Bv," "His Majesty, the American," "The Mollycoddle," "The Nut," "The Mark of Zorro," "The Three Musketeers" and "Robin Hood."
Douglas Fairbanks also lives in the beautiful Beverlv Hills in a "castle-on-the-hill."
In the distance, on the veranda of their "house on the hill," will be seen Mary and "Doug."
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