FILM DARE-DEVILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 9

FILM DARE-DEVILS.

A "DEATH SQUAD." THRILLS FOR BRITISH j PICTURES. ! MACABRE PRICE LJST. J (Special.—By Air Mall.) j TjOXDON, May 21. j Back in London from Australia this;, week, Reg. Kavanagh, famous dare-devil! stunter, has joined forces with Santos' Casani, celebrated ballroom dancer, to! form u "Death Squad" for British lilms.'

"One of our feats will be the staging a head-on car collision at 00 miles an hour," Santos C'asani said this week. '"From such crashes we also hope to I earn something about 11 <> w cars can !>•»], constructed to be safe in the event of j. high-speed collision*."' ; Kavanagh, who. with members of his gang have smashed up £."">O.OOO worth of cars and aeroplanes, has drawn up a price-list for iilm crashes. A head-on collision can be arranged; for £100; a 'plane crashing into tree tops for £l."i 0; head-on mid-air crash between j two 'planes for £2.30. | i 1 Perhaps as a mark of distinction in tliej ■ early Christian churches a large umbrella! was usually hung over the priest. From this custom an umbrella btcame associated with cardinals who were chosen -from ba*ilican churches—churches | modelled alter an old Roman building. |