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Even the girls would have left Tarzan gasping in their wake. Debbie Meyer, 15, the snub-nosed aquabelle from Sacramento, Calif., shattered world records in the 400-meter freestyle (4 min. 26.7 sec.) and 800-meter freestyle (9 min. 17.8 sec.), led Arden Hills Swim Club to another record (8 min. 46.2 sec.) in the 800-meter freestyle relay...
Long before he prowled the celluloid jungles, Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller was a national hero. To swimming idolaters of the 1920s, the faces of Babe Ruth, Red Grange and Paavo Nurmi paled before the image of the bronzed, high-cheekboned champion. Sportswriters later acclaimed him as the out standing swimmer of the first half-century, and rightly so. When he retired in 1929, Weissmuller held every freestyle record from 100 yds. to the half mile. And who could forget his showing in the 1928 Olympics, when he devastated his own Olympic 100-meter mark in the breathtaking time...
...Tarzan of the title is Baron Wolfgang von Hoppe (Rudolf Hruŝínsky), whose parents take him to the African jungle around the turn of the century to escape the sinks of civilization. Vati and Mutti promptly perish, of course, and little Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough...
...imbues him with the ideals of human brotherhood, and the result is a new version of the Noble Savage showing up the hypocrisy of Civilized Man (as in Voltaire's L'Ingénu). The disillusioned baron ends up in a circus, where he is displayed as Tarzan...
Just about the only benefit today's Negroes can trace to the standard Hollywood product is the current Black Power slogan, "Ungawa!"-a fake African chant from a Tarzan picture. Even in 1950 reruns, Negroes are chuckleheaded or criminal. In mystery pictures, it is a Negro who discovers the corpse and scampers away shouting "Feets do yo' stuff!" Says the comic: "I don't want any dark innuendoes." Chirps the chauffeur: "Anybody call me?" Even such all-black musicals as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky patronized as they provided employment. "It's been...