Word: tarzanitis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Elmo Lincoln (real name: Otto Elmo Linkenheit), cinemactor (Tarzan of the Apes); by Mrs. Lincoln. Grounds: another woman...
Married. Joan Burroughs, daughter of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan of the Apes); to James Pierce, cinemactor of Tarzan, chosen for the part by Joan Burroughs; in Los Angeles...
...Died. Tarzan Bajazzo, who for years had amused London, Paris, Manhattan by faultless table manners and monchalance in smoking cigarets; by suicide, in Berlin. This trained chimpanzee set fire to the straw in his cage...
...actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away to a consequent theatre contract. Again, Mr. Reichenbach brought success as a screen play to the tawdry "Tarzan of the Apes", by releasing a live ape named Prince Charley in the vestibule of the Hotel Knickerbocker. He writes "Next morning the story broke in every New York paper. Over long accounts of Charlie's adventures, were such headlines as, 'Tarzan's Ape Raids Knickerbocker Hotel' and 'Simian Royalty Steps...
Collier's Weekly, for Nov. 15, carried the record of one Harry L. Reichenbach, publicity hoaxer extraordinary. One read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions...