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FAIRBANKS
DOUGLAS E. (ELECTRICITY)
This fact was self-evident, for he began to lasso the chairs and jump the rope like a real — not reel — cowboy. Believe me, tho, your favorite shows the results of outdoor life and exercise. One cannot help but admire the strength and endurance concealed in the one hundred and sixty pounds of Fairbanks. If he shook his fist under your nose and said that the Woolworth Building w a s one mile high, I'll wager that you wouldn't dispute it.
"Yes, I like California very much, and, altho Broadway has its attractions, I like Hollywood better and would like to be there now. The outdoor life has a great attraction for me, and some day I hope to enjoy it to my heart's content. We were at the beach for the summer with a friend. I built a dandy sail-boat out of an old canoe, and I expect to try it out next year. No, I'm not afraid of sharks in the ocean ; the only kind of shark I fear is the money-shark."
Movie fans and admirers of Douglas Fairbanks, here is good news for you He is to remain with Triangle for at least three years, probably five. Isn't that great news ? I was glad that t h e stage had not lured him back. "At present I am at the Riverdale studio," he
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working on a Western picture, in which I play the part of a brave cowboy, and I am kept very busy. This summer was too hot for work, tho. Our studio is glass, and when it was ninety in the shade here it was about a hundred and twenty on the stage. We simply \ couldn't do good work, \ and so we reported for the day and then unreported. My favorite excuse was, 'My God! I'll \ faint if I stay \ here another m i n u t e.' I thought of that sentence copyas some of the folks were trying to beat me out by using it. Do you blame me?" 'Do you like comedy better than drama?" I ventured. "Much better," he answered. "Things are too serious now — with the war — and comedy helps one to forget his troubles. I came very near going to the Mexican border when it appeared that war was inevitable ; I would have joined Roosevelt's Rough Riders if they had reorganized." "Do you receive many letters from admirers?" I asked. "Compared with that little girl (pointing to a photograph of Mary Pickford), very few. I receive only a hundred a day as com
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her three hundred." Think of it! — only 100 a day ! No wonder Uncle Sam has I so much
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