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FAIRBANKS IS TO ABDICATE

Show business is no business for man who wants to shine as a diplomat

By GEORGE WATSON

ILM idols are usually the time, or inclination for it.

- or retired. When

deposed

Douglas Fairbanks,

I accept an invitation from someone it is because the

people happens to be friends or like Garbo, is abdicating. with the same interests At 45, as handsome, charm- myself. I also have friends whe ing and modest as over, he are quite undistinguished and ia planning to leave show far from famous,"

business. For him there is YET

on the walls of his

greater magic in Big Busi- study are autographed photo-

graphs of the late King, Queen Winston Churchill, Mr

Mary,

The undistinguished He may make one farewell Truman.

aro not represented. film, but oven that is not certain, friends And today, I can reveal that Asked to give an example of an Furbarks also intends to give undistinguished friend, he can up his present job; the day by only think of an all-in wrestler day running of the British from Blackfriars whom he know National Studios at Elstree 20 year: ago. He met him with where he makes commercial TV Lord Grantley, fins for Amerden.

He intends to devote himself To more formidable matters: international affairs, the balance of trade and... popcorn,

Popcorn is today providing him with part of his livelihood, From his TV films, he earne nothing They have made $3,000,000 for Britain but nothing for Fairbanks so far. They cost that much to produce. A man who tosses Away a throne--ever

It does come

from the props department is bound to be a baffling figure, Why Js Fairbanks doing it Fairbanks himself doesn't know, He has not had the time, he Bayn, to be an introvert. So ho doen't Jenow what makes his own wheels to round.

But I have just spent two bonus feding oth at his house in Kensington where the Queen

dined with bun

Contradictions

"I am not wealthy," he mys.

fortune "I did not inherit a from my father. He lost most of it in the depression, mavage to keep ahead of bailiffs. Just barely."

California, too

YET

But I

the

... he has a palatial house in California and his place in Kensington is hardly a cottage. His inter-com, house telephone system has ten extensions. His chauffeur drives him to parties Rolls-Royce. in a Cadillac or a

lo "Intimately connected with three business companies" and "connected by association with four others." These have to do to with anything from ships

caling-wax.

Fairbanks ubdicate? Noi, as has Well, why does o filmu star like

wickedly been suggested, because he needs more time to put on fils medals and decora- tions of an evening,

I think the clue was contained

bis answer to one of my

What is the truth about Fair- barks the socialite, actor and in tycoon? My conversation with questions. Mim revealed certain contradic- tory. In his make-up.

"I am not a

a socialile, though

Off the roof

I Frem to have the reputa- dort for being one enyn Fair-

He was telling me about his barks. "I have some very good friends who happen to be in recent visit to Turkey, where he -called Society, but Society as was the President's guest, as n Bo-ca

is a bore and holds no semi-official representative Buch fascination for me."

the American State Department,

YET at his right hand, on

of

"Do you find that the heads of

the enormous desk in his study, State take seriously the advice аге to be fours Debrett ant

сто

Purke's Peerage. Anch the of a man renowned for swing- Bible. Also Aus Plan eogles with ing over rooftops with a cutlass one and two heads, signet in his mouth?" I asked, stamp with his own personal always.

"Well," he said, "they didn't But they've had quite do not go out much," he a long time to get accustomed says "perhaps once a month to me now."

Often I do not Mr Fairbanks is clearly very on an average. get home from the studios until anxious

semi-official nine-and have my brought in on a tray in here while I'm working.

for hla

B

man

THE CHINA - MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,- 1954

AN FEL BE IN SCOTLAND AFORE YE..... ■

REPORTING

AN INCIDENT DURING THE GILES FAMILY'S PROGRESS ALONG THE ROAD TO THE HIGHLANDS

na-

INORIAD

London Express Service

SEFTON DELMER is on his way through the Iron Curtain into East Germany. He will report all that he sees going on in Red territory, one of the flash-points of Europe. Today he sends a provocative eve-of-departure message from the West zone,

When A Schoolboy Dares To Protest Against Rearming

Prussian 'military schoolboys hre permitted to ment is there any reference speak out against them." to any contacts between Naumann and his group and What will things be like former Nazi high-ups in if and when the militarists the Adenauer Cabinet like get their army?:

Berlin. The school magazine, Die "..The spirit of the ortho- the EFORE me on my Antenne (The Aerial), has for Prussian drill sergeant system. desk are three docu- been sent to me by boys of is rising like a Phoenix from its ashes. We had ments. THE FIRST the Albertus Magnus gram- thought them branded and concludes, "that the present "Nothing indicates," he Is a school' magazine. written and published by mar school in Cologne.'

banished for all time, these

the former S.8. lender Dr circles who are the true Propagandists of soldiering German sixth form boys-

"Dear Mr Delmer," says a

The legal document con- Waldemar Kraft. are seeking to bring about bearers of militarism. boys who, if the West Ger-

But don't blame 'Dr Nau- Government has its covering note, "this is the

a real change in this sists of excerpts from a 40-

page indictment in which mann for that! There is "But here they way, will shortly be called latest issue of our magazine.

are system."

the It has been confiscated by awakened

German Attorney. nothing he would like better once more to You will monstrous activity. They

Yes, it is quite clear General accuses two former than to confront ex-3.3. tional German Army. THE the authorities.

a legal docu- have no difficulty in dis are

more able to Klaus and his friends, like Nazis of having met friends man and present. Minister- around a beer table to con- without-Portfolio Kraft at a of thousands of ment issued by the West covering for yourself by threaten schoolboys with a hundreds

which Germán Attorney-General, reading

articles Just wait till we get you in other Germans, do not like spire with them for the public trial.

restoration of National So- He would like to produca us the army. We will show the idea of a new German cialism in Germany In de before the court Kraft's own THE THIRD is the text of caused them to close a speech delivered over the down."

you what a good time is.'" Army.

signature in a guest book. radio by 78-year-old Chan-,

For that signature, Nau- mann claims, would prove that the Minister was, to put it mildly, mistaken when he claimed never to have

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The Plot

F

KLAUS goes on to attack so: The power of the mill-

the degradation of the in- tarists in this new German. YES, it is out at last. Here met or talked with Nau- it is, the final pro- mann during the "plot dividual soldier and citizen "democracy" is already so duct of the great investigs- "period.". to a mechanical robot under strong today that not even tion conducted first by the British then by the Ger. [mans into the alleged. Nazi

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B

A.: It's

The Talk

To foll it and safeguard BUT the most alarming the security of the British note of all is contained in forces in Germany our own the radio talk by the Chan- Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, in his cellor. First, he fulminated then capacity of High Com- that Germany must have an missioner,, arrested seven army of her own and that Maric Germans in a dramatic mid- she cannot be denied her

EING a further instal-

all part of, the game, tracted Dr du Pont, an excitable Dr du Pont: At shop? At ment of the Unintelli- dear.

Madame du Pont, a dificult son, shop? Men Dicu, must I sell at Q And a very dirty game Plerre, and a tearful daughter, shops before I see my patients gent Woman's Guide too, so far da I can see. Why Marie, to Cricket.

Question: Why are they com- ing of the field before they're all oul?

Answer: The captain has de- clared,

Q. Why?

A: Ho might have taken a long time to get it, dear,

QNo longer than drinking tes and munching cakes. Is the captain Jealous of the boy?

A: Really, dear.

lost.

wiz polceurs?

Madame du Pont; crying in 'er bedroom,

Dr du Pont: My patients groan

Jadu

in

the

night swoop on January 18 rights.by a mere handful of

for

half past three on, the last day silly, voice. Men can be just as he is the beginning of this do you mut: Before you Germans, who promptly resaid, "will either produce no

of the match;

Q: What's that got to do with It?

did the captain, deciare 'just bew fore that good-looking boy got There may also be the French his hundred?

equivalent of the mother-in-law, Mrs Freeman, and her tiresome

their bedrooms.

last year,

100 French Communiat de.” ent

Madame du Pont: Atis Captain, who becomes l

be in ze Capitaine. Dr du Pont like Dr moment Pierre

The British held the seven puties; then went out of his Dale, la probably expected to arme of ze

way to turn down an imme men incommunicado This Pontontortionin!.

At zis moment weeks on end, then sudden with the Russians.

diate Four-Power conference A: Well, dear, they have

give advice on all family mat tem and find the missing lo

my patients may

be dying made 209 for seven in their

ly handed them over to tho accond Thinirfgs, and It's now! Don't "really" me in that Capitaine at all times whenever arms of their relatives.

"Such a conference," he Madame di jealous as women. · And worsq

see any muzzer

leased them on ball. Only result at all or it will lead to How old broadcast Dr du Pont is about to Dr du Pont: Every day, for two of the seven aro Indict when they get older. is the capain?

leave the house to visit patients 20 years I've seen your ideous ed. A certain Herr Bornes able to Germany."

a conclusion very unfavour- when he is stopped by Madame muzzer. Is it not enough?. A: I don't know, dear,

du Pont. Q: Is that him coming up

Madame du Pont; My muziermann and Dr Werner Nau M. I andl that very plain speaking; Madame du Pont: steps?

No, you is not "deotu the

mann, former right-hand ríos leade: zis 'ouse "unit #halt Yes

Dr du Pont: Your.muzzör is dear, A:

man for Goebbels and the boy grandfather. Are you.

Q. He looks old enough, tỏ be You 'aye decided what to do mere ideous zan a crocodile,

about Fierre and Marie,

Madame du Pont: You are a alleged political legates of

Hitler. telling me that ugly old man

Dr du Pont: You are an im- in't Jealous of the boy? 2`, A: You really musta't things like that, dear.

Madame du Pont: Monateur. Dr du Post: Idiot, Madame du Pont; My muzżer Hom

la grippe.

A Well, dear, the other side need 185 to win and the captain of the batting side doesn't think they can make that number of runs in the time, including the ten interval

Q. You mean he's cheating? A: Of course I don't, dear. Q: Is it easy to make all those runs in that time? A.: Not very, dear, Q: Has it ever been done be

$ 8.50 15.00 25.00 fore? 25.00

dear.

all

Dr du Pont: But, my Uttlo Har. cabbage. I ave many patients to see. Some 'ave la grippe and belle- say some ze oolceurs in ze stoomach.

Madame du Pont:

So your Q. I shall say what I like. patients wiz dolceurs and

many runs did the captain: make?

grippe are more important than your own daughter Marie wis er

The Signature

What the man Implies is that if such a Four-Power conterence loads to an agreement betwee the Ruralens and the, Western Powers. It would. (3))

the German ambition, to revive a Army: and (2) limit the

inilitary

ability of would-be Bismarcks like himself to build Germany.

A Three, door.

There you are. He's at shop zut lose 20,000 franc a bad du Pont: Bon. I hope it is WHAT mild stuff this beer once more, into a dominant

table talk indictment Is! Now the world's best hope to week, or your, own son Pierre Madame du Pont: She cry, wiz Nowhere does it live up to day is precisely that West and, Jealous of the boy because he's wis is mad love for a married zer fever. young and good looking and is lady contortionis2.

•

A. Not often, dear. But it's sporting chance. 35.00 Q. I don't call it sporting. 10.50 Why not cut out the tea in

better batman. So he stops the Dr du Font:. I am a docteur worse,

Dr du Pont; I ope it, ges the blood-curdling Indica East should agree to ban the 10.50 terudit

tions given in the Foreign revival of a German Armin game because the boy's doing and my patients must como

both the E want their tea, ll. The man's nothing but first. Let me past, They a

adame du Pont You will

Office communique issued ones. Pleaser 5.00

Russions

no hayo ready It's just like your office, crook. Where are you going Madame du Pont: Only over give er medic wilt give 4.00 Everything ops for tea. Would now?

dead body thall you pats. proide

Dr du Pont: I will give 'er after the arreste last

year,

declared their readiness - id re- What will you say, your son

Madame du Ponts Er cat te Is somebody trying to duce the police army) in their

dispel Western tears, off hubh things up? It looks one to proportions which, ge. De! da Font:: You are all Dr du Pont. What will i say!

very much; like it to me, such an agreement' tree Far apak (Will may, good suck and du Pont Le Cep: For at no point in the ind

A: We're all going to have

1

4,00 &15.00 | the other side rather lose the ton dear above kelas thn, away sole zly married lady, Capitaine' is up a tres,

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

1.00 match than inits their tea?' $4.50%

9 contortionist ka

the point, Mme. du Pont's

be more sport, douqukonksua Spoke Ampy Lathe captate who has de2,

24.00 ciarad Roferid to go without Journal

-15.00 Big4o that his opponents: had

more time to make the runa? Eizou don't - understan

18.00

KITAIFA) Akin taina also fave:la grippe.

|_ Nevaire (15) Dr daturath Bog Belt shall you pass. /. You are a mon-, my patients wiz volen

pteur De du; Pont;

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