Tree-swinging Paid
1 Author Edgar Rice Burroughs wib • pocket another £58,300 from the 25th Tarzan picture. The veteran ; writer, who has, never penned a line of a screen script, has already received over £1,340,000 from Hollywood for the hlm rights of his books. ^ * .• R.K.O. is making the 25th movie with husky, 6 ft. 2 in., footballer Les. Barker as the jungle hero. Barker is the screen's tehth Tarzan, those before him being Elmo Lincoln, ~ Gene Poiar, Gene Tabler, James Pierce, Frank Werner, Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weismuller.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1948, Page 6
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