"SUICIDE SQUAD”

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1937, Page 10

"SUICIDE SQUAD”

LIVES RISKED- FOR FILMS' 1 LOND.OX, February .13, British film stunt inercliants ' have formed “'Pho Suicide Squad’ membership is to be limited .to- 25—and it already comprises two girls and eight men. each specialising in his or her particular branch of .dare-devilry. Miss Myrtle Daly, a London typist,is leaving office work to specialise, in car smashes. She has for years been a. keen motorist and has taken part in many rallies. She had a bud smash 12 months ago and now she-is going to .crash cars for a living. Miss Eileen Britten is aquatic.; her line is shipwrecks, falling off cliffs info the sea and swimming under water: Jesse. Jacobsen, Hie oldest member bl" the squad—he is 40 and the only married member —is a past-master in the art of falling’,’off cars, ’buses and trains backwards. George Gordon who* was in “Hollywood’s “Squadron’of Death” and crashed planes for “Hell’s Angels” is going to bump off cars and planes without bumping him.self off. Eddie Crawford undertakes 90ft falls into a net. The art of falling 90ft is simple when you know how. and when the property, man fixes the net right. If there’s a slip you either break a limb or go clean through the not. David Pringle; formerly of the South African Mounted Police, and an ex-dia-mond digger, specialises in horsemanship. Anthony Hastings undertakes to fall out of a plane from a height of 150 ft into the sea. and Robert Eastman is willing to drop from one plane into another flying below it.