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...when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands...
Last week the ape "man's indefatigable mentor, Producer Sol Lesser, announced that he had signed a new Tarzan. The find: Gordon Scott, 26, a lifeguard at Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel. His qualifications: 6 ft. 3 in., 215 lbs., a So-in. chest, a 30-in. waist and a catlike walk...
Married. Arlene Dahl, 29, red-haired cinema siren (Here Come the Girls) ; and Fernando Lamas, 37, Argentine-born Hollywood swashbuckler (Rose Marie); both for the second time (her first: movie Tarzan Lex Barker) ; in Las Vegas...
Cinemactor Lex (Tarzan) Barker, 34, confided to a reporter how his marriage to Cinemactress Lana Turner, 34, has converted them both into plain old homebodies: "We just have dinner at home, and never go any place. She owes me a fortune in gin rummy." Lana, said Lex, lets him hang his trophies on the wall. "Some women might stick up their noses at my African shields and my helmets and swords, but Lana's cute about it. She tries on the helmets...
Rabbit's off-field capers also became a legend, even in baseball's rough and ready era. There was the time when the Boston police found Maranville and Jim Thorpe high in a treetop, yowling like banshees as they played Tarzan. There was the hot night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy...