Word: tarzanitis
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...Hollywood's celluloid curtain. After nearly two years of negotiation, the Ministry of Trade in Moscow last week cleared the way for delivery of a million-dollar, 20-picture package. Among the films the Russians were dickering for: Madame Curie, The Yearling, The Wizard of Oz, Captain Kidd, Tarzan's New York Adventure...
Hooked Idea. Before becoming the anonymous idol of her panting fans, Texas-born Jean King was a singer, a movie bit player (Tarzan and the Amazons) and a radio actress. In 1947, marooned in Dayton, Ohio, she went on station WING as a disc jockey. "I was damned lonely in Dayton," she recalls. "So I just hooked onto this idea and talked about my loneliness. And, you know, I found out there are a lot of lonesome people in this world...
Died. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, multimillionaire creator of Tarzan; in Encino, Calif. Since 1914, his 23 Tarzan books have sold nearly 30 million copies in 58 languages and dialects. Other sources of income: royalties on 26 movies that netted him over $5,000,000; comic strips once published in 400 newspapers; a score of trademark classifications on apeman articles from G-strings to bread-wrappers...
...offered a part last month, but ... I was too busy," mused photogenic Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, onetime movie mate of Tarzan and wife of Director John Farrow (Two Years Before the Mast) as she posed for a picture in Hollywood with 6-month-old daughter Stephanie (see cut), her sixth child. "Perhaps when the children are all grown I'll become a character actress...
Divorced. Alexander Crichlow ("Lex") Barker Jr., 30, Manhattan socialite who combined a deadpan acting style and bulging biceps to become the tenth cinema Tarzan; by Constance Thurlow Barker, 32; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...