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Photoplay Magazine
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called on to dive from the top oi a grain elevator, 135 feet high, into a river. 1 had never negotiated a dive ot thai magnitude before, but 1 had a general idea of the dilficullie> to lie encountered. Ihe main problem was how to keep the body in a straight up and down position so that the outstretched arms would hit the water first and act as a sort of wedge and protector for the head and shoulders. To dive from such a height and strike the water on the stomach or back or side would probably knock a man unconscious, and that would have spoiled the effect. When I made the jump and found myself in the air, it was necessar\' for me to call into play a numlx-r of ordinarily unu.sed muscles in order to keep from turning over. By this means 1 was able to retain a straight up and down position imtil within a few feet of the water, when I turned slightly. It was not enough to spoil the eftect. for it is not noticeable in the film, but it was enough to give me an ide.< of what would have happened had I not been able in use the muscle.^ necessary to keep my balance."
These are only two of many "stunts" Mr. Hutchison performs in "The Great Gamble ' but they serve ae.xamples to explain the Hutchison theory of straisilu chance-taking as against self-confidence. In add'ticii to the high dive to which he referred, he jumped from a roof across a fourteen-foot alley to a roof twelvefeet lower and eighty feet from the ground; he drove a motorcycle at seventy miles an hour across a bridge and leaped a twenty-five-foot gap in the center: he swung himself around the corner of a building on a single rope and into a wimlow fifty feet from the ground; he climbed to the roof of a seven-stor>' apartment house by placing his shoulders against the wall and his feet against the wall of another building four feet distant and working his way to the top. and he jumped from the wing of a hydroplane into the oce.in seventy feet below. All of these feats were accomplished without the use of safety devices or a 'double " and. according to his theory, he was not taking chance^ for the reason that he knew he could do them and had his plan all worked out in advance.
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