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...Hollywood. Equipped with collapsible legs and an elastic face which he contorted into caricatures of exasperation, bewilderment, bliss or imbecility, he played most often the part of a tottering drunk. In Australia, where he was born, he left a Shakespearian stock company to travel with a circus as clown, acrobat and animal trainer. He came to the U.S. in 1908, rose from burlesque to become one of Ziegfeld's top comedians (Sally in 1920), later went to Hollywood, where he made scores of strenuous two-reelers...
Born. To Burt Lancaster, 37, carnival acrobat turned cinema tough guy (The Flame and the Arrow, The Killers) and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 34: their fourth child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Joanna Mari. Weight...
...Flame and the Arrow (Warner) gives ex-Acrobat Burt Lancaster something he really knows how to do. Almost a spoof of the kind of swashbuckling gymnastics that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, the movie is built around a tumbling act. Feebly disguised as a band of gay rogues in 12th Century Lombardy, Lancaster and some old circus associates swing from chandeliers, draperies and trapezes, drop from trees and balconies, climb ropes and poles and all over each other...
Lancaster is probably the best acrobat now employed as an actor. After a series of gangster films, he obviously relishes his promotion from a hood to a Robin Hood. But dialogue still throws him, and his modern side-mouthings ("I'll meetcha inna tavern") sound a little disenchanting in Technicolored medieval Lombardy...
...change is largely due to Editor Edward Moffat Weyer Jr., 45, Eskimo expert, Arctic explorer and onetime professional acrobat, who persuades scientists and amateurs to write at his low (now 3? a word) rates instead of sending articles to the wealthier National Geographic (TIME, May 23). Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon...