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The Russian Eagle Club of Hollywood was not at all famous until it burned down in spite of the efforts of Charlie Chaplin and John Gilbert to save it. It's been rebuilt now and is a rendez-vous of the stars.
The Circle 33 Club is for the cowboys and daredevils who ride 'em hard and fearlessly. Johnny Mack Brown, for his work in Montana Moon, was made a proud member of this unusual organization.
they weren't such a bad lot by standing up with me for a still. Which makes a record for me of some kind or another.
THE Suicide Club was the next on my list. It is an organization composed of stunt men whose business is to supply the talkies with thrills. They flirt with death as a matter, of course.
The founders of the Club are Chic Collins, Billy Jones, Jack Holbrook, Johnny Sinclair, Harvey Perry, and Dick Grace.
Grace is famous for his airplane crashes. He is the one real dare-devil of Hollywood. He never attempts a stunt unless the odds are against him. He has had practically every bone in his body, including his neck, broken during the course of his stunting career. The surprising part about it is that accidents do not impair his nerve. He always comes back for more.
I ran into him in the lobby of the Hollywood Plaza.
"How about a story next week?" I flung over my shoulder because I was late to another appointment.
"Better get it tomorrow," he laughed. "I've got three crashes to make this week. May not be here
if you wait too long."
But he came through them all okay. They were crackups he made in Young Eagles. Upon each occasion, he was strapped in his plane before taking off. When he made his second crash, he miscalculated a fraction of a second and instead of striking the water beneath him, he fell upon the shore-edge. Three of his ribs were broken, but he reported for work and made a highly successful crack-up on the following day.
The other members of the Suicide Club specialize in parachutejumps, automobile crack-ups, walking on airplane wings, high diving and high jumps. Each has had his own particular escapes from death and no two of their experiences are alike.
I talked with Sinclair between scenes of True to the Navy, Clara Bow's new production, in which he joins with Collins, Jones and Holbrook in staging several free-for-all rough and tumble fights.
Don't let anybody convince you that fights in the talkies are faked. I thought so myself until I watched these boys work out. They came out of the scene, bruised, bleeding and covered with perspiration.
Sinclair explained to me the purposes of the club.
"We don't look upon our work as particularly dangerous. We like to live as well as anybody else does," he insisted. "You see, we calculate and measure cause and effect and time our stunts accordingly. After we have them figured out in seconds and feet, we practice [^Continued on page 86}
Ralph Douglas, Leo Nomis, Frank Clarke, James Hall, Ben Lyon, Frank Tomick and Ray Wilson ar^ all members of the Caterpillar Club. You have to 'make three parachute drops, one of them from necessity, from an aeroplane to become a member of this exclusive coterie.
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