Show Olympic I Champ Signed as Star Dies Before Facing Cameras By FREDERICK G. G OT OTHMAN IAN IJ HOLLYWOOD July 16 UP The UP-The The promising movie career of Jack Dunn Olympic ice skating champion was ended by death today before it actually started The year old Dunn died in Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood hospital last night of tularemia tularemia tulare tulare- mia while the liner bearing his mother steamed toward New York where it will dock today For two years the handsome young Englishman waited for movie parts that had been promised him but never developed When at last he was signed at United Artists asa as asa asa a full fledged star he contracted tularemia or rabbit fever and died before appearing in front of the cameras Physicians believed at first that he had suffered a in infection infection infection in- in when a ash blew into his eye They believed that he had a good chance of recovery But Buta a turn for the worse caused them to make a new diagnosis When they found he had tularemia it was too late for blood transfusions to tobe tobe tobe be of aid Transfusion Too Late Police searched the city for the only two men in Los Angeles known I to have recovered from the disease Both gave their blood but Dunn died a few minutes after the transfusions transfusions transfusions trans trans- fusions were made made- Movie producers had planned that his his' career career should reach its climax with his portrayal of the life of Rudolph Valentino Dunns Dunn's international skating career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer reached its height in Berlin two years ago when he and Sonja Hente Henle won their titles as the worlds world's premier premier premier pre pre- mier ice skaters at the Olympic games they were For several years in competition teamed in skating States Europe and in the tim United to Hollywood Dunn Then they came at Universal studios had a contract and Miss Henie Henle had only hopes Dunn waited vainly for 11 months s for his picture to be made Miss star- star ranking Henie soared to top d dom skating part- part WhIle his one time ner ncr made one smash picture after another Dunn cooled his heels at atthe atthe atthe the cottage he rented at Malibu Beach Long Walt Wait Discourages Then after nearly a year he had said the studio called off my picture altogether I was so 50 down in the dumps that I 1 was considering going back to England where I knew I could earn a living when Paramount made me an offer I was to do a picture titled Girl It was to be a big time movie but the producers began by arguing and I 1 waited nearly a year there too too while nothing happened I finally got my release and then Producer Edward Small signed me up Now Ive I've got my fingers crossed A week after Dunn was Interviewed interviewed interviewed inter Inter- viewed by this correspondent he was taken to the hospital with an in infected infected infected in- in eye eye- Several times he was at the point of death but physicians said his excellent physique staved ot off the inroads of the fever During his few conscious moments he talked only of his mother mother and and of his desire desire desire de de- de- de sire to hear the cameras whirr on onstage onstage onstage stage two where he was to make The Life of Rudolph Valentino |