DEBONAIR DOUG PARRIES ROYALTY-AIMED QUERIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240060-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: February 27, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240060-6
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Debonair Doug Pm:ries...
Royalty-Aimed lueries
DAPPER and still-dashing
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.?who
has enough diplomatic sav-
oir faire to hold the title of
Social Consultant at the
U. S. Embassy in London?
was smilingly sidestepping
all questions about the Brit-
ish Royal family here last
night.
The formei* stage. and
screen idol, an ? American
who has been living in Lon-
don in recent years, rates So
highly in court circles that
Queen, Elizabeth and Prince
Philip have dined ? quietly
with the Fairbankses at
home. But any tid-bits of in-
timate gossip he may have
heard around Buckinglir.rn
Palace were, being kept to
himself during a three-day
stay in Washington. .
Surrounded at one pOint
yesterday in a mob scene of
probably 200 autograph-seek-
ers, the suave Fairbanks
turned a deaf ear to. a re-
porter's. queries about ro-
mantic prospects in Princess
Margaret's future. Uttered
without the bat of an eye,
but prefaced with an ,engag-
ing grin, his answer to the
question was: "I consider
New York my real home."
? WHAT is the queen like
when she drops by to take
potluck with close cronies?
Fairbanks grabbed a wait-
?ing paper and pen, squinted
as he wrote, gid declared:
"My handwriting is getting
to look like hieroglyphics."
Everywhere the actor-
turned-producer went yes-
terday, he was, surrounded
by usually-blase Washingto-
nians who wanted to remi-
nisce ? about. his father, the
swashbuckling Douglas Fair-
banks Sr.
"He was the Rock Hudson
off my day," one little old
lady recalled. ?
PRESIDING over the pro-
gram was District of Colum-
bia Chapter chairman,
Charles S. Dewey. Brig.
Gen. Frank A..Tobey, Dep-
uty Chief of Army. Chap-
lains, gave the invocation.
Others on the program in-
cluded Mrs. Robert White-
law Wilson, National Direc-
tor of the Office of Volun-
teers; Mrs.. Francis E. Hilde-
brand, chairman of the Of-
fice of Volunteers; Mrs.
David E. 7inley, chairman of
the Awards and Recognition
Committee and Fairbanks'
hostess during his stay here,
and Mrs. G. Morton Rossee,
vice chairman.
? Organizations singled out
for recognition ranged
from Arena Stage to a group
-called the "All Fouled Up
Pup Tent No. 5" of the
Military Order of the
Capes. Yeaks ? of service
ranged from the minimal
five to 40. and over. ?
-The three honored for.
four decades of work were
the Washington American
League Baseball Club, Inc.,
Daughters of the American
Revolution ( t'h rough the
combined efforts of 60 D. C.
Chapters) and the National
Jewish Welfare Board,
Washington Armed Services
Committee.
THE DEBONAIR Fair-
banks came to the 'recogni-
tion ceremonies from a party
in his honor at the Ameri-
can Newspaper Women's
Club. Standing with Club
President Mary Haworth to
receive the several hundred
guests, Fairbanks seemed to
be having a gay time.
"Every fifth person said
she knew my father," he
"That certainly dates the
members of this club," com-
mented Mary
Stopping to chat with
Fairbanks were former Am-
bassador and Mrs. Myron
C ow e n. .Fairbanks visited
the Cowens in Brussels When
Cowen was Ambassador to
Belgium.
Mr. and Mrs. David Fin-
ley?Fairbanks' hosts for his
Washington visit?came by,
as did an old-time friend,
Mrs. Richard Simpson, wife
of Representatix,e Simpson
- of PennsylvanialA,
Among the 'club's associ-
ate members who took their
turns pouring coffee were
Mrs. Merriweather Post?
in a bouffant.opript dress
with lilac and roseltowered
chapeau?Mrs. Perle Mesta'
who wore a black, fox
trimmed Marusia ensemble;
and Mrs. Harold Burton, her
black velvet hat a conversa-
- tion piece. ?
Mrs. Ernest Eden ? Norris
who knew Fairbanks when
he ,"was a little boy" was
there. ' Mrs. Martin Vogel?
she knew the honor guest's
father--was with Mrs. Ef-
fingham Townsend.;
The party" everiihad party
crashers?a young man and
woman ;who came seeking
autographs.
Others seen in the crowd
were Mrs. Maxwell Rabb,
Gen. and Mrs. Wade .Hais-
lip, former Senator Claude
Pepper, lia?Lctarles? P. I
Cabell, alia?R-Farnr.nitriv"
latriTliornas Kelly. '
Co-chairmen of the party -
; were Mrs.- Eric Joh7;0011
mid Mrs. Alice Curran.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release
50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R00020024006-6