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The gentleman is an emblem. His name is Philip Dorn. He stands for Holland, for courage, for invincible hope
BY LEON SURMELIAM
FIVE sturdy boys were standing on the tower that was built out into the shipping waters off the Holland shore. With a shout the first boy dived off the tower. For a full minute the others looked on impassively, waiting for his head to come up beside a small craft a little distance from the tower. This was a favorite trick of their companion— to make them think that he was drowning. But when tiny bubbles began to appear on the surface close to the piles of the tower, the second boy plunged into the water. He, too, failed to reappear. The third youth went in after the second; then the fourth. There were now four ominous little streams of bubbles.
Cold terror gripped the heart of the fifth boy. Nothing but his indomitable will drove him into the sea after his chums. Straining his eyes in the murky depths he saw their four bodies, saw also the steel net which had caught them. If he could just summon enough strength to give it one good shove — there!
Slowly five heads reappeared on the surface. The fifth boy clambered out, hauled his companions onto the tower. Two were already turning blue. With the knowledge of those who live by the sea three of the boys worked quickly on the other two, administering artificial respiration. Presently the patients were breathing again. And the excited citizens of the little Dutch town proclaimed the fifth boy a hero.
That fifth boy? He was Fritz Van Dungen. You know him as Philip Dorn of Hollywood.
In real life Dorn looks like Gary Cooper, talks like Charles Boyer and his thinking has, been definitely influenced by a Javanese holy man. All of this with a few minor differences, of course. For instance, he's six feet two, instead of Cooper's six feet four.
But he never convinced the estimable London ladies of that difference when they rushed up to him and said, "May we have your autograph, Mr. Cooper?" It seems Gary (Continued on page 82)
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Fritz Van Dungen who became Philip Dorn, intense man of "Reunion In France"