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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

IMAGINATION and FANTASIES

wore a trench coat and had a pretty girl friend who never knew
him for his fantastic self.

Buster Crabbe, was a serial star that played so many roles it’s
hard to keep track. He began with ‘Flash Gordon’ in the
1930’s then played ‘Billy The Kid’ in western serials. He was
an Olympic swimmer and became one of the early Tarzans.

Tarzan could never be beat for a full length movie. The
translation of Edgar Rice Burrogh’s novel of an English
gentleman that became Tarzan was missed on the early film
writers. Tarzan was seen as a mysterious white man that had
been raised by the gorillas in the African jungle. Not an
English Lord that traveled to Africa.

Johnny Weissmuller, my favorite, another Olympic swimmer,
could wrestle crocodiles, fight lions and ride elephants. The
best of all scenes was when he first saved Jane from a group of
poaching safari men.
Saved, the two of them sat on a huge log over a mucky creek
deep in the jungle. He didn’t speak English, but uttered ape
sounds and mimicked what she said to him. She said ‘I’m
Jane’ and smacked him on the arm. He mimicked her and his
smack knocked her off the log into the muck. They repeated
this over and over until she stopped saluting him with a
congratulating smack on the arm. He finally pointed to her,
and said ‘Jane’ and to himself ‘Tarzan’.

Movies never ended without the News Report, with Navy
Battleships crashing through rough seas, or Cruisers blasting a

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