The Kerrville Times from Kerrville, Texas • Page 55

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Ill Gullet 1969 Cowtoi Inc. Tarzan's 'Boy' quits films for business world 19 Mrs. Louise Downey ofKerrville writes, "What liappened to Johnny Sheffield, the young man who played 'Bomba' in the jungle pictures. For some reason, he starred only as Bomba and then dropped out of sight. Is he still Bom in Pasadena, in 1931, the child actor who also gained fame playing "Boy" in the Johnny Weiss- muller 'Tarzan" series is the son of the late English-born actor Reginald Sheffield, who played the title role in the 1923 silent film version of Charles Dicken's "David Copperficld." Sheffield weighed only four pounds at birth and was sickly the first three years of his life, but through a strict exercise program and a proper diet imposed on him by his father, the youngster was hale and hearty by age five.

Like his father, Johnny got into acting at a young age. At age seven, he won the plum role of the grandson in the original company of "On Borrowed Time." When MGM Studios, in America, began casting for the costarring role of "Boy" in the Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzan" film series, Sheffield tried out for and won the part. There were eight films in' the series, beginning with "Tarzan Finds a Son" (1939). Other titles were "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941), "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942) "Tarzan Triumphs" (1943), 'Tar-' zan's Desert Mystery" (1943), "Tarzan and the Amazons" (1945), "Tarzan and the Leopard Women" (1946) and "Tarzan and the Huntress" (1947). The movies, filmed on the vast MGM Culver City back lot, were among the studio's top money- I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED making films.

Sheffield also appeared in other 1940s films including "Little Orvic" and "Cisco Kid" (both in 1940) and "Million Dollar Baby" (1941), opposite Priscilla Lane." When Sheffield outgrew the "Boy" role in the Tarzan films, he moved over to Allied Artists, where he starred in his own film scries as "Bomba the Jungle Boy." Tides in the series include "Bomba the Jungle Boy" (1949), "Bomba and the Lost Volcano" (1950), "Bomba and the Jungle Girl" (1952) and "Bomba on Jungle Island" (1953). In 1956, at the age of 25, Sheffield left the movies and enrolled in UCLA, from which he got a bachelor's degree in business administration. When he left, he did so so completely that neither MGM or Allied Artists studios had a forwarding address for his fan mail. After graduating from college, Sheffield worked at a scries of odd jobs. Then for several years he did nothing but watch over his vast real estate holdings in Malibu, Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades land bought with his movie earnings.

Sheffield, now 58 and overweight, lives with his wife of more than 25 years, in Chula Vista, where he and his two grown sons are partners in a thriving construction business. When approached, Sheffield refuses to talk about his lucrative career in films, nor does he grant interviews or sign autographs. By MICHAEL BOWLIN Friday's still a punk By HILLEL ITALIE The Associated Press NEW YORK Gavin Friday is a punk. His hair isn't spiked, his clothes aren't torn and his music might seem too sophisticated. But still, he's a punk.

Punk is an attitude, Friday insists. Worrying about looks and sound runs against everything punk stands for. And, according to Friday, punks were around long before Johnny Rotten picked up a microphone and screamed. That means Oscar Wilde, Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan are punks, too. "When I was 17, around shaved my head and became a punk," explained the 30-year-old Irish singer- songwriter, who named his new album, "Each Man Kills the Things He Loves," after a Wilde poem.

"It was great fora while, but the media made it all fashion. The whole message was if you have something to say, say it. Get up on the stage and say it. That was the best thing about punk. You don't have to practice your guitar for six years, just get up and try." Friday admires writers such as Wilde and Bertolt Brecht, who used humor and irony to coat stinging social satire.

In that spirit, the album's title track sounds like a demented vaudeville tune. The music rolls and crashes like a ferris wheel sprung from its girders, like a merry-go-round speeding out of control. The lyrics arc sung gleefully, your worst nightmare delivered with the warmth of a Christmas carol. "I really just relate to the words in my own way and put the melody to the way I felt it should be," he said in an interview. "The words are really dark, but I didn't want to sing them like that.

I wanted a circus type of feel." He never sounds happier than on Dylan's "Death Is Not the End." Cheer up, he sings, no matter how bad life gets, death is not the end. Change the lyrics to an advertjse- mcnt for deodorant, and you might never know the difference..