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...Tarzan's Revenge (Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume...
...newsstands mainly in the Midwest 200,000 copies of a 10? bimonthly, Peek-A Look at Life. In Peek Publisher Cotton, now eastern representative of Illinois' Kable Bros. Co., printers, does a picture Ballyhoo of LIFE in "Peek Along America's News Front." Sample caption: "Larry (Tarzan) Crabbe holds Betty Grable up on the Paramount lot so the cameraman can see what made Tarzan wild." Other features: "Peek-uliar Fishing," "Peek at a (Animal) Party," "Peeking at Pictures" which features a "distortograph" of Stuart Erwin. Peek's "advertising" pages burlesque Tanka Coffee and Giraffe cigarets which "never...
...water spectacle, which he named BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving clown. A floating stage 160 ft. wide, equipped with diving towers, was built in a shipyard and towed into place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch...
...runners were undismayed by their none too auspicious showing. Scofield declared proudly that they led Tarzan Brown for a good bit of their run. Asked if they would attempt the classic in 1938, he said, "Sure...
...fact that he is there, explains the management, hangs the underlying popularity of the University as a movie house. In no other establishment is the smacking of lips so delicate or the roar of Tarzan so beastlike; and to the shadowy figure in the leges belongs all credit for the perfection of sound control...