NOTED STILT WALKER
808 PENDER DEAD LONDON. Nov. 2(1. Bob Pender, famous stilt walker, who took his troupe of giants round the world several times, died yesterday in a Southend hospital. He was 68, and had been retired for 15 years. A star himself, he helped to make another star by giving a job to a Bristol boy named Archie Leach and sending him to America to wofir. There film talent scouts picked him up and took him to Hollywood, where they gave him a new name. They called him Cary. Grant
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 10
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92NOTED STILT WALKER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 10
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