Monday, August 11, 2014

From Roger Smith


WALLACE BEERY RADIO SHOW W/MABEL STARK

At TOP is the formal card Buster Cronin created to promote Mabel Stark's
appearance with Wallace Beery on the premiere of his Shell Oil interview
show. I didn't try to edit this scanned page, so the ambiance of Mabel's
scrapbooking style can be enjoyed. Her newspaper clippings are glued
onto beige paper, most with long articles folded back. These are all
legible, but yellowed and fragile. As noted on the August 10th posting
with the Wallace Beery photo, Mabel arrived by stretcher from Methodist
Hospital. She had been severely mauled by her tigress Nellie, on September
21. Headlines raved again, when two days later, on the 23rd, actor Charles
Bickford was attacked by the lion Tarzan, while filming East of Java, at
Universal. Tarzan was described as a former Clyde Beatty lion. The press
had a field day comparing the injuries and recoveries of two stars of the circus
and the movies.

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