July 10, 2025 and ninety-seven years ago on this day in 1928, newspaper articles announcing planned wedding between Joan Burroughs and James Pierce began appearing in newspapers around the USA. Joan, the daughter of Edger Rice Burroughs, had met and was engaged to marry Tarzan. James Pierce had played the lord of the jungle in the film, “Tarzan and the Golden Lion.” The couple would voice Tarzan and Jane on the radio show, “Tarzan of the Apes,” sponsored by Signal Oil.
The episodes are available and a series synopsis is located at: www.erbzine.com/mag1/0141.html
For more information about the engagement announcement: www.erbzine.com/mag11/1195.html
The 100 word fictional drabble for today, “A Vine Too Far,” was inspired by that announcement.
The reporter said, “Congratulations, Miss Burroughs. I understand your father tasked you to find a new film Tarzan and you found Tarzan and a husband. I wish you both a long and happy marriage.”
“Thank you. We plan to be married in August.”
“Will you and Tarzan live in the jungle?”
“No, in Tarzana so that James can continue his film career.”
“I’m surprised. I pictured the two of you swinging through the jungle. May we expect that you’ll be big swingers around town?”
‘No, Dear. James is almost twenty-eight. It he starts swinging off screen, he’ll never see twenty-nine.”
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