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...Mayfair is striving more mightily to shine in the reflected dazzle of the crown jewels than that personable American named Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "He simply becomes electric when there is any royalty around," said one of the actor's friends. "Entree into the Fairbankses' home," wrote a catty columnist in the Daily Sketch last week, "is a hundred times more difficult than getting a ticket for the coronation...
...more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There's no point in inviting people you don't get a chance to visit with," says Host Fairbanks, and a liberal sprinkling of titles, of course...
Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in...
Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBC). New filmed drama series.
Russell died at 62 in 1926. still protesting that he had no idea why some collectors paid the prices they did for his canvases. Yet he exhibited in London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and sold several paintings for $10,000 apiece-to Canada for the Prince of Wales...