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The only railroad of any size owned and operated by the U. S. Government* is the Alaska Railroad, 500 miles long, finished in 1923, running from coastal Seward to the biggest city in Alaska's interior, gold-mining Fairbanks (pop. 2,101). A dour, 69-year-old, spectacled, Republican...
"It's awe-inspiring," exclaims Gold Digger Douglas Fairbanks Jr. when they first sight an Inca ruin, "like the great ruins at Ankor." Undeniably awe-inspiring, the ruins look more like the trylon at the New York World's Fair with the top knocked off. Soon the diggers...
From then on, the picture suggests a graph of jungle jitters. Cinemactress Bennett provides the fatal virus. Young Douglas Fairbanks runs up the highest curve. To make matters hotter, the jungle (which covered 45,000 square feet of a Universal lot) teems with hostile Indians. To make doubly sure that...
So this guy Doug Fairbanks is the first mate on a sailing ship, and he doesn't like to send sailors up aloft when it's blowing and they're liable to get killed, so he quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he...
Of his previous wives, No. 1, Mrs. Jack Whiting (Beth Sully, mother of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), and No. 2, Mrs. Buddy Rogers (Mary Pickford), the will made no mention at all. Beth Sully got $500,000 when they were divorced, Mary Pickford is a millionaire in her own name.