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By Dick Hylan
And Al will hop — and dive — and then the nurse will say, "Hello, Al. Back again?"
The golden age of the stunt men is passing. That is why it is well to write this brief saga now. To sing a little of the song of their amazing deeds, their mad courage, and their inevitable laughter. Nor is it well to forget that some' of the greatest stunt men in the world are high salaried stars, such as Tom Mix and Douglas Fairbanks.
But the progress of photography is rapidly writing the epitaph of the stunt man. The magic double exposure of the Williams process and other inventions in trick photography and development of film are fast rendering it unnecessary to subject any man to the long chances of "stunts."
So, before they pass, let's chronicle a few tales by which to remember them.
The average life of the stunt man in motion pictures is under five years. He either gets killed or he gets a little sense and quits.
When you've talked to a few of them you'll realize that they are the kind you like to have around when a fight is
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"Speed" failed to pull his 'chute and crashed to the ground. He's in the
hospital now, figuring out how he can make the leap in a Ford coupe.
There's your true stunt man!
"Speed" Osbourne raced his motorcycle off a cliff for a news reel thrill. He was supposed to open a parachute but —
brewing, but that they have more nerve and less sense than any other men you'veever met. Few quit. The greatest stunt man who ever lived — he is dead now and the manner of his death, of which I will tell you, is a typical page in stunt history — was Gene Perkins. The fraternity itself, and such directors as specialize in stunt pictures, seem to agree on that. He was twenty-four when he was killed and had been in the game a little over four years.
'""THE secret of Perkins' greatness lay in his amazing ■*• ability tofigureout astunt ahead of time, calculating it perfectly according to time and distance, and in the icy clear-headedness which enabled him to carry it out to the hairline the way he had planned it. His
nerves — he had none.
Clarence Brown, the director who has just finished "The Trail of '98 " and who has put on a heap of thrilling stunts in his day, told me a lot of things about "Perk, " particularly the day he asked him if he'd jump into the top of Nevada Falls in Yosemite National Park.
Now Nevada Falls is seven hundred feet high and the water in the stream just before it pours over the cliff, from which drop no man could possibly return alive, dashes and whirls along over jagged rocks at a perilous speed.
Brown and Perkins went to the river bank and shouted at each other above the roar of the falls.
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