Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1938)

Portrait of a Young Man Looking at Life (Continued from page 22) likes an open fireplace in his bedroom. He thinks that definitely the so-called greater freedom for women has contributed to their unrest and consequently to the divorce rate. If he were shipwrecked for a long period he would like as his companions Robert Benchley, Roland Young and Reginald Gardiner. He never uses a cigarette holder, and spends hours sunbathing. He seldom goes to concerts but when he does he likes to go to the Hollywood Bowl where he gets a seat in the last row and lies down throughout the performance. He hates to go shopping. He is allergic to leathery and musty odors. He likes Turkish baths. His epicurean tastes are exceedingly commonplace. He wears all of his pajamas when sleeping, and wishes he could play the piano. He likes pork and beans. He wears a platinum ring engraved with the family crest, the meaning of which he does not know. His ambition as a boy was to be a painter or a writer He is impulsive. He is known as Young Doug in Hollywood. He has enjoyed life immensely, even when it hasn't been too kind. Years ago he wrote a series of articles for Vanity Fair which were illustrated by his own caricatures. He dislikes eating in places where there is music and dancing. He prefers the company of men to women. He likes beer but has no special preference. He was born on December ninth; has never lived anywhere long enough to vote. He was thrown and kicked by a horse ten years ago and hasn't been on a horse since He weighs 175 pounds, and does not like reading novels. He hates to go to a barber. He plans never to give up acting, but hopes someday to produce He likes hamburgers, and never wears a cap He is addicted to fancy ties, and smokes only American cigarettes. He has no ambition to amass a lot of money. He is a poor after-dinner speaker. He has a felt hat he has worn for ten years which contains three cigarette holes. He enjoys being alone, and his musical talents ended with playing the drums at military school years ago. He does not like giving parties, but when he does he invariably invites a few key guests who act as hosts and leave him to enjoy himself. nE enjoys the opera only on records. His favorite author is Somerset Maugham, and he thinks modern wrestling very unfunny. He likes to lie down when reading. He keeps up with the times by reading magazines and newspapers from London, Paris and New York. He thinks Spencer Tracy the best actor on the screen. He is an incurable romanticist. He has worn a moustache for seven years. He is fond of mutton, and would rather stroll on the beach than anywhere else. He prefers Tudor or Georgian architecture. He considers "The Dawn Patrol" and "Catherine the Great" his best pictures. At present, Doug, Jr., is the film brother of Janet Gaynor in "The Young in Heart." He thinks blondes are shrewd and brunettes forthright. He has no honest regrets. He considers himself a fatalist and has an agnostic attitude towards theology. His favorite breakfast food is porridge and liver and bacon. He has never won at gambling, and does not like poetry. He studied painting for several years in Paris, and never wears a gaucho shirt. He has an aversion to eating eggplant, parsnips and boiled tongue. His school days were punctuated with special detentions and extra military duty. He wore glasses up until eight years ago when he lost them. He hasn't bothered wearing any since. He does not like walking without a destination. He never reads the sporting page He likes to wear sweaters and slacks at home. He collects all sorts of trinkets and attaches an exaggerated value to them. He does his best work in the late afternoon and night. He has spent most of his life in apartments. He has a very bad memory for names and places. He studies lines quickly and quickly forgets them when the scene has been filmed. A slight reversal upsets him for a prolonged period. nE would like to be a good conversationalist but invariably fumbles and misses his points. He would rather participate in sporting events than watch them, and he dislikes playing cards with women. He thinks someone should write a book on Anglo-American unity. He has been on the screen for fifteen years, and his favorite books are "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Book of Tea,'' a tome of Japanese philosophy. He never wears spats. He is a good trader. He thinks the numerical increase of college graduates in America is not a sign of proportional increase in culture. He first fell in love at the age of twelve, he likes prize fights, and owns a thirtyfoot cruiser on the Thames. His reading leans toward the historical and biographical. He is very fond of spaghetti, swims well, and is constantly weaving and inventing romantic notions about everything. He is not concerned, when playing a game, whether he wins or not. Had he his own way, he would like to divide his time between New York and the English countryside. He never whistles He likes wearing tails, has never had a nickname, and his most intimate friend is a seventy-five-year-old gentleman named Tom Patton. He is in a constant state of agitation at a preview of his own picture He travels by air only when he has to, and never questions people's motives He has never gone hunting. He thinks war will never be abolished. He does not like baseball. He does not like hot dogs or personal appearances. Douglas Fairbanks, Junior believes a little bit in everything and a great deal in nothing. His manservant is a Swiss valet whom he inherited from his father He doesn't care where he works, and he doesn't like surf bathing. He thinks it is practically impossible for two professionals to be happily married. He excelled in spelling and geography at school. 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