#Edgar Rice Burroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs = May 9. 2025

 May 9, 2025 and ninety-three years ago on this day in 1932, Edgar Rice Burroughs appeared on stage at a Los Angeles theatre with Maureen O’Sullivan and Tarzan, the Ape Man director, W. S. Van Dyke. The successful film had premiered in New York on March 22, 1932, about seven weeks earlier. The general release date was April 2, 1932.

There is very little information about this publicity event. I couldn’t find any information other than the date. No photographs, no specific theatre, and no information about what was said and by whom.

Countless details and photos about the 1932 film are chronicled at https://www.erbzine.com/mag6/0611.html

The 100-word drabble for today, “Worth a Thousand Words,” is excerpted from a post on the International Movie Data Base website by Australian David Atfield.

It’s in the silent action sequences that the film really flies. Often, it gets bogged down in static sound sequences. There’s the usual problem with early talkies - too little music. It makes me think what a great silent film this would have been. Van Dyke was a first-rate visual director with many impressive silent films like "The Pagan." If we could now just sit back and watch this sexy action film without talking and sound effects, just a great music score, this film could be considered a masterpiece. But then I guess we wouldn’t have heard Tarzan's famous cry.