Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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Y LAST OF THE SQUADRON OF DEATH By E. R. MOAK Today Dick Grace, Hollywood's aerial stunt king, is the sole survivor of the heroic little band of nine fliers which he organized in 1927, daring the filming of the sky scenes in Lilac Time. It seems impossible to believe that a man can emerge alive from a wreckage such as this, yet to Dick Grace it is ordy one of over thirty similar crashes which have marked his career as a champion risk-taker. W; 'E SAT in a Hollywood hotel room where Dick Grace, most daring of all movie stunt aviators, had been taken after surgeons had bound up three broken ribs and stitched as many gashes. Dick was reprimanding me, his pal, for not having been in Sherwood Forest that morning, when, doubling for Buddy Rogers in Young Eagles, he intentionally crashed an airplane to earth, rolling it over on its back as it struck. "Afraid," I apologized. "Of what?" "Had a hunch it would be your last crack-up." "So did I," came back this veteran of more than thirty-five plane smash-ups that have furnished thrills for millions of film fans the world over. "But, when it does come, that's the way I want it — with my hand on the stick." ICK lolled in an easy chair, but the lines thatwreathed his face bespoke his physical pain. The phone rang. "I'll get it," he said, limping across the room. I heard him say "Hello," into the instrument. Then, "My God!" And, with that, he crumpled to the floor. Dick Grace had fainted! The man who, during the making of Wings, had crawled with a broken neck from beneath a plane he had deliberately wrecked only to calmly ask for a cigarette! This man had fainted over a telephone conversation. He had just been told that two planes had. crashed over the waters of the Pacific during the shooting of Such Men Are Dangerous, with a toll of eleven lives, including those of two pilots — Capt. Ross Cooke and Hallock Rouse. "And I sent them to their death," he sobbed. "Why couldn't it have been I.-*" THREE days later, with this thought still torturing him, his fractures and wounds not yet mended, he again took