Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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The intriguing story of Dick Grace, the sky daredevil who laughs at death to provide movie thrills — the last member of his famous squadron the air and wrecked a second ship for Young Eagles, doubling for Paul Lukas. But it wasn't the same laughing, joking Dick Grace, for this time he was flying as the sole survivor of Hollywood's Squadron of Death, eight members of which had gone to their doom since he organized the little band of aerial dare Dick and Buddy Rogers examine the remains of a plane shortly after Dick sent it hurtling to earth during the filming of Young Eagles, in which he doubled for Buddy in the air scenes. devils for the sky scenes in Lilac Time on January 2, 1927. Hallouck Rouse had been a close friend of Dick's for years, but Ross Cooke had been the last of his fearless squadron. He was killed on the second anniversary of the organization's birth. "And I sent them to their death!" Dick couldn't shake the thought as he took off from the flying field, circled "No Man's Land," sent the craft into a spin and dug its nose into the ground on a spot where he had placed his own handkerchief as a marker. Strapped into the wreckage, Dick waited until the cameras ceased to grind, then he was cut loose from the mass of twisted steel, splintered wood and torn linen, all that remained of whathad a few minutes before been a proud and powerful airship. Field hospital surgeons reset the fractured ribs, sewed a few more cuts and Dick was driven back to his hotel. The fatal accident of his friends has left its mark on him. ICK already had been signed by Paramount for the Young Eagles crashes, when Direaor Kenneth Hawkes summoned him to the Fox lot. '•I want you and any other pilot you pick to fly two big planes for the leap scene in Such Men Are Dangerous," Hawkes told him. "We'll shoot the first clear, day after January first." mSSSSS "Can't take it. My Paramount job comes up at the same time," replied Dick, regretting that he had to pass up another offer. "Get me two men you know are able to handle it," requested the direaor. As to his choice of one of them, Dick need give no thought. Ross Cooke, the man who had been his flight lieutenant since the formation of his squad, would appreciate the call, for work had been slack over the holidays. And Dick had the utmost confidence in him. Then there was Hallock Rouse, as able as he was daring. Dick phoned both flyers and outlined the stunt. They were to take the camera ships out over the ocean, diving them 5,000 feet to photograph the plunge of a man leaving a third plane via parachute. They took the air the same day Dick was doubling for Buddy Rogers. But something went [Continued on page 76'\ A German plane, piloted by Dick Grace, at the end of a nose dive to the ground. In scenes such as this Grace must crash his plane on a certaiM spot, in order that cameras placed about the spot may catch the action. One of Dick's first movie crashes was done in Lilac Time, when he for.med his Squadron of Death. The picture shows Colleen Moore examining the plane shortly after the crash. 33