DANGEROUS LIVING
STUNTING FOR FILMS. LONDON. July 13. “Imagine Wallace Beery weighing 16st„ with red hair and beard and a black eye, and a withered left shoulder, and you have George Smith, of Adelaide, who risks his life every day," writes the motoring correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” The correspondent describes Smith diving in front of a motor lorry, travelling at 20 miles an hour, in order to demonstrate new bumpers, which, it is claimed, prevent pedestrians from being run over. Smith, who was formerly Carpentier's sparring partner, has in the last Io years broken almost every bone in "stunting'' for films. He is said to have jumped through a window recently, breaking the glass. To-morrow he will dive through a revolving door and fall down 14 steps. Next week he will sink with a barge. These jobs, however, are easy; his worst task was a 30ft. dive into a chandelier, when lie broke two ribs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1935, Page 4
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