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...Tarzan the Fearless (Sol Lesser). Although Japanese swimmers are by far the most efficient in the world, no one of them is likely to be elevated from his tank into the trees. The rôle of Tarzan in the cinema is reserved for U. S. paddlers like Johnny Weissmuller (for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Clarence ("Buster"') Crabbe, who are tall, ingenuous and shaggy at the ears. Crabbe has an advantage over Weissmuller in that he looks even less capable of speech. When he pats Jacqueline Wells on the chest in the last reel and says "That . . . mine. . . ." audiences...

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

Zani, a plausible and unambitious Tarzan, has been brought up since childhood in the zoo as a ward of its director. His personality is very soothing to the animals, and also to an orphan girl about to be bound out for five years. Both, through appropriately creditable motives, become embroiled with the Budapest gendarmarie, and hide away in an abandoned bear den. They are joined by a monkey, a little boy lost, and in the nick of time the villain. The role of the latter is promptly and gratifyingly usurped by a midnight sortie of lions and tigers from their...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/16/1933 | See Source »

VOTE FOR CASE-NOT TARZAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: All-Round Man | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Most popular pictures of the year were Forbidden and Attorney for the Defense (Columbia); Five Star Final and The Man Who Played God (First National, Warner); Bad Girl and Delicious (Fox); Tarzan and Grand Hotel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Shanghai Express, and The Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount); The Lost Squadron and Common Law (RKO) ; Frankenstein and Spirit of Notre Dame (Universal). Scarf ace (United Artists) cost most ($800,000) to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the Industry | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore a blond wig. doubled for Marion Davies), once in Tarzan of the Apes (doubling for Johnny Weissmuller) and in a slow-motion short, Swing High, soon to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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