FILM STAR INJURED
Hit by Javelin SHORTLY after he finished his role of a national hero in “It’s Tough to be Famous,” a Warner Bros.’ First National picture, Douglas Fairbanks, jun., went out to the University of Southern California to work out with the track star’s who were practising for the Olympic try-outs. He had been tossing the .weights, and was walking off the field ■when a javelin came whirling toward him. He tried to throw himself out of. ■the way of the missile, but was not entirely successful, and the weapon hit him .in the foot. The wound was so serious that he had to walk with a cane for several weeks after the accident.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 16
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116FILM STAR INJURED Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 16
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