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...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 4, 1934 | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Twelve thousand pairs of eyes stared fascinated when a youthful giant named Jack Torrance from Louisiana State stepped into the shot-put circle. A huge sign hung at one end of the stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relays | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

Loew's State--"Tarzan and His Mate". Tarzan Weissmuller goes roaring through the forests again with Maureen O'Sullivan in his arms. All right if you like Tarzan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...Tarzan the Fearless was originally intended to be the first four installments of a long Tarzan serial. Producer Sol Lesser thought so highly of his first chapters that he decided to release them at once. The picture shows Mary Brooks being kidnapped in the jungle, carried to a sordid cave where her father has already been incarcerated by a tribe of lecherous Arabians. A little ape tells Tarzan about this dastardly development. He rescues Mary first, then goes to aid her father and two other members of the party. The picture leaves Dr. Brooks (E. Alyn Warren) in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1933 | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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