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A Yankee Maciste
He kept his treasure in a chest and came to national renown as Tarran.
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KKHA1'> you saw him in InioUraiue ' — the Chaldean warrior who stood with two-eilged sword and cut down his adversaries Hke Ty Cobb hatting out base only he had a better average even than the rrdouhtable Tyrus when he batted at;ain>i the invincible Cyrus.
Or maybe you saw him as "Tarzan of the Apes." that novel picturization of Mr. Hurroughs' fantastic novel of the same name. Heri he swung from limb to limb in the moiike\infested jungles of Hollywood ami Louisiani and did feats of strength that every kid who saw the film has Iwen trying to ape — yes. that's the word — ever since.
He's the .\merican Maciste. if any American screen player has the right to be called a rival to the famous Italian stronc man of "Cabiria fame.
It was the powerful, bulgy, hirsute chest of Elmo Lincoln that made him a film star.
Bom in Rochester. Ind.. Lincoln went to the Southwest with his parent? at an early ace and grew to manhood in Texas. There he worked at railroading and for a time was a peace officer in .-\rkansas.
While living in that state Lincoln married and it was his wiles ill health that brought them to California. Of course folks who go to California particularly
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the vicinity of Los Angeles, always gel into the movies evcntuallv'. and Elmo was no exception. Some of the old timers, as film history runs, will recall one of the greatest of the early GrilTiths, "The Battle of Elilerbush (iulch." Well, it was this picture that gave Lincoln his chance six ye:irs ago. ,i , He played the sergeant in that stirring photodrama and during thr course of the fighting his .shirt was torn partial'y off. disp'aying hi[)owerful chest. The great Griffith spied the aforementioneil treasure ihest and Lincoln was destined for better things than the extra's lot. By the way that same chest was prominently displayed more recently in "The Greatest Thing in Life." Do you retail the soldier in the trench with Bobby Harnm who wanted to "tratie two little ones for a big one"? That was Elmo aeain. I). W. never forgot that chest.
Lincoln also played in 'The Birth of a Nation' and in many other subsequent clramas made on the Griffith lot. He left it for the first time when he was engamd to play the title role in "Tarzan '
.\l the present time Lincoln is one of the stars in a serial which is lieim; made by Director Henry McRae for the Great Western Producing Company of which Julius Stem is the "big noise." The other star is Grac<' Cunard. In every episode of the thriller. Lincoln is made to perform at least a half dozen feats of strength, cither in strenuous fights, makin" escapes from what seems to lje certain death or lifting buildings or locomotives from the haples' hi-nAm