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"B

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He threw her off the cliff!

Although that immortal bit of doggerel wis
written m the dear dead days when the serial pic-
ture was (died i loday. The
aerial is stilt puking them in with ill tU thnlU
and chills But now. it appears that the boys have
replaced the girls as star* The villain Mill pursues,
but it't a him and not her. The hero has replaced
the heroine. Buster Crebbe gets thrown off the
diff instead of Peatl White.

Of course, like everything else, the serial alto
ha* marched on to many technical improvements.
although die-hard silent fans, eyes brimming over
with nostalgic tears, tetl u» that the days of The
Penh of Pauline." The Haaards of Helen and
"The Adventures of Kathlyn" were the good old
thy*.

Casting a technical eye back at the oldtime era,
when the nickelodeons piano played dallied u> to
the marrow ■almow a* rrnKh as tbe screen scenes
themwlves, a modem aerial fan, and there are
thousands of them, may smile at the crudities of
those eady chapter plays. In those day* every-
thing about the movies on the installment plan svas
pretty much haphazard (torn production to screen-
ing. The stones continued for as long as the tramc
would bear. 'The Million Dollar Mystery,' for
instance, was planned as an eight-chapter serial,
then developed into twelve and eventually took
twenty-four episodes before it was completed.

Acting was lacking in finesse Rather it was
built on stern stuff, with the teachings of an acrobat
more useful than a dramatk coach. Camera tech-
nique was less flexible. The theater projector and
Kreen itself had many flaws, which led to the ex-
pression the flickers,"

Today, although the excitement is still there

and the protagonists are still being tied to railroad

! I night express approaches, are still

being bound, gagged, hauled from precipice to

precipice and bade to precipice again; still locked
in a room while tune bombs ominously trek off rhesr
death-dealing suspense, the technical aspects have
changed. Chapter plays have emerged from theit
swaddling colthes, and now in their thirty -seventh
-year are chatting new paths in serial aim history.

Tbe chiller that was the cuffttanger'" of yes-
terday has assumed new suture. No longer is pro-
duction helter-skelter, hi (teen episode* announced
in advance n the limit for any one story. Sound
recording, camera effects, acting, story plots, ail
hue added new elements of suspense They art
not only adventure a rammed but are more logical

Although the aforementioned old timers may ad-
mit all this, they still ding to the names of dM
former daring stars— Kathlyn Wrlliams. Ruth Ro-
land. Helen Holmes, Dorothy Philips, Hcleoe Cot-
tello and Pearl White — whose courage and f*""Tt
got the customers to click off the tickets at the boa-
office turnstiles Today there is glamorous male ■*>
business imtead of feminine charm.

A stripped -to-the want Buster Crabbe appears to
hold just as much enticement as the pretty face of
former days. A "superman"' George Reeves, a hand-
some Jon Hall, a virile Kirk Allen, a lithe City,
ton Moore make the female hearts flutter and the
kids' throats hoarse from cheering just as much at
did the feminine star* of yesterday.

In his newest serial. Buster Crabbe fights with
lions, tigers, and that moat dangerous or all *dd
animals on a movie *et, the bUck panther Me
didn't mind this at much as he did a scene with
Gloria Dea in which he is supposed to be hyrst-
tited by bet Playing the native princes* of a
strange African tribe, she hypnotises Butter to learn
his secret for being m her village.

*"1 don't like this," said the ex Olympic swim-
ming champion. "Do you people know she* a
hypnotist in teal life?

The exotic Gloria it not only a hypnotist— «he
as also a magician, having her owo ad 10 taudmUf

•t the age of five- and -ahalf.

Actually Buster had plenty to worry about when
be had to right the black panther thtee times

Animal handlers consider the blade panther the
hardest of all wild animals to tram. The entire
cast and crew of the picture had the jitters so long
u the animal was on the set.

However, although Bernie. the blade panther, had
never been in films before. Buster's three lights with
him went or? without a hitch. But when the trainer
was returning the animal to its cage, it broke way.
There were several anxious moment) as it wan-
dered around the set. no one daring to interfere with
the vinous beast Finally, it slunk into its cage as
everyone breathed a sincere sigh of relief.

There were other exciting incidents thar occurred
during the filming of the future In one of them
Boater's famed swimming prowess paid off with a
vengeance Although he has saved dozens of fair
damsels in distress in the films. Buster had a chance
to actually save Gloria Dea from drowning.

A scene was being photographed in which Gloria
wai to wade along the banks of a swift jungle
stream. Miss Dea who cannot swim, lost her bal-
ance and was carried by the fast-moving current to
the center of the stream where she was in danger
of drowning.

Buster dove into the water and quickly pulled
her to the shore. The girl only suffered a brief
coughtng spell, and a bad scare.

Although be always wins the admiration of the
female members of his audience, who place nun
high OO their, list of movie heart-throbs. Buster's
appeal for the girls was expressed in a complctdy
new wa« during the final filming of the serial

Buster's latest worshipper b Peggy, a doer
three year-old trained chimpanzee, who plays bis
jungle companion in the film. Peggy was never
happier while on location than when she was hold-
ing Buster's hand, and she Openly displayed her
love tor him during the many fight scenes At
these times her wild screams and attempts to rush
in and help turn forced Peggy's hM"Hff to remove

her from the set to that the scenes could be filmed.

Peggy also sutfced 'roan vanity to another
^scene, clinging to Buster" i neck, vhe was supposed
ttxttutt tier heed and look directly into the camera
for a cloacup. Peggy just wouldn't do' it, no matter
how much she was cajoled by the assistant director
and her handler.

Finally Buster suggested, "If she's like a lot of
girls I know, a mirror right beside the camera lens
should do it."

A mirror was found and hastily set up. Peggy
saw herself, and fascinated, kept looking right where
she was supposed to.

But alas Peggy proved to be fickle. She deserted
Buster tor another, proving at the same time that
feminine intuition is not all it is cracked up to be,
and that the old adage, "love is blind," is true.

When Peggy laid eyes on Steve Calvert, who plays
an ape-man m the film, her eye* nearly popped. For
the rest of the tune he was on the set she wouldn't
even look at Buster, but in typical female fashion
she tried to attract Steve's attention. She would
caper in front of him one minute, leaping and turn-
ing somersaults and the next instant she would nan
away and hide. It seems in his gorilla outfit, Steve
u Peggy's idea of a real he-monk.

Buster fought so many animals in the picture in-
cluding a live crocodile that when a new caged lion
was brought on Buster got a big shock.

The director explained the action. "The lion
crosses your path, here, Buster, then goes off into
the brush," he told the star.

"What," said Buster disgustedly, "you mean to
say I don't get a chance to light it?

From the terrific excitement and hair-raising
thrills in which Buster refuses to use a double it
looks like serials are here to stay. In the past and
present their contribution to the motion picture is

'To be continued next week" will never pass
from the movie lexicon.

But the qucena arc dead! long live the kings!

ftȣnd

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TELEVISION STAR

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