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Johnny Weissmuller was girl-shy, anyhow. And when that girl laughed at him on the raft years ago you can imagine how crushed he felt.
A MIGHTY voice awakens the echoes of the silent jungle ; a moment of suspense and then a hush as a magnificent sun-bronzed figure, lithe muscles rippling, swings into the picture. Tarzan the Ape Man, lord of the African jungle, is here and a million women will get such a thrill as not even Clark Gable ever gave them.
It is doubtful that any other man in the world has the grace, the strength and the physical perfection to measure up to the superman of Edgar Rice Burroughs' imagination. For weeks director Van Dyke combed the country for a man to play the part. Dozens of Hollywood's "he-men" were tested and found wanting. Van Dyke simply couldn't find the right physical specimen for the role until he met Johnny Weissmuller.
Most of the world knows the story of Johnny Weissmuller, the thin, emaciated young Austrian lad whom doctors sent into the water to cure a withering illness. What the world does not know is that it was not a search for health which drove the shy, sickly youngster to a regime of Spartan rigidity but the unthinking laughter of a girl. To that peal of girlish laughter, into which
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—Johnny Weissmuller was hurt as only an impressionable kid can be hurt. He never saw her again, yet that girl's laugh changed his whole life and brought him supreme happiness
By J. EUGENE CHRISMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Weissmuller. Mrs. Weissmuller is Bobbe Arnst, musical comedy star. If there is an acme of cuteness, she is it.