STUNT EXPERTS

Southland Times, Issue 23179, 21 April 1937, Page 9

STUNT EXPERTS

“SUICIDE CLUB” IN ENGLAND British film “stunt” experts have formed “The Suicide Squad.” Membership is to be limited to 25, and it already comprises two girls and eight men, each specializing in his or her particular branch of dare-devilry. ' Miss Myrtle, a London typist, is leaving office work to specialize in car smashes. She has for years been a keen motorist and has taken part in many rallies. Miss Eileen Britten is aquatic; her line is shipwrecks, falling off cliffs into the sea, and swimming under water. JJesse Jacobson, the oldest member of 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 aeroplanes for “Hell’s Angels,” is going to “bump off” cars and aeroplanes without “bumping” himself off. Eddie Crawford undertakes 90 feet falls into a net. The art of falling 90 feet is simple when you know how, and when the property man fixes the net right. If there is a slip you either break a limb or go clean through the net.

David Pringle, formerly of the South African Mounted Police, and an exdiamond digger, specializes in horsemanship. Anthony Hastings undertakes to fall out of an aeroplane from a height of 150 feet into the sea, and Robert Eastman is willing to drop from one aeroplane into another flying below it.