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* Later, Mark swore off swearing, drinking and chewing but remained a heavy smoker. The December Atlantic printed for the first time the letter Mark wrote to Olivia ("Livy") Langdon three weeks before their marriage in 1870: "I ceased from profanity because Mrs. Fairbanks [a friend] desired it. I stopped drinking...
The bulk of the diesel orders has gone to General Motors' Electro-Motive Division, which last week got an $11,000,000 chunk of the Central order (the rest went to American Locomotive and Fairbanks, Morse). G.M. was ahead in diesel locomotives chiefly because it was the first to...
The story is a pleasant little fraud. A trumped-up anecdote of King Charles II's gay undernourishment in continental garrets, it is designed chiefly to purvey the Tarzantics of Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But The Exile is also Young Doug's first fling as a producer, and...
The script (which he is said to have written) has a charming, blank-verse hauteur that just possibly may be a bit asinine-but the direction saves the day by insisting on a witty, natural reading. Fairbanks has also inflicted an extreme lilt on the rhythm of the film-a...
Few cinemaddicts will stand up to cheer these tender graces, but fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object...