SOLDIER AND COWBOY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 16

SOLDIER AND COWBOY

'THE idol of the children in the days of the silent films, Tom Mix, the ' most famous of all “Western” stars, has now staged a most successful I “come-back” in the talkies, and will soon be seen in Wellington in Universal's “Rider of Death Valley.” Rated as one of the best marksmen alive, Tom Mix learned to use his “shooting-irons” at home, near El Paso, Texas. He also learned to ride and break horses there, and later included several years in the Virginia Military Academy as further training for the great soldier and cowboy actor that he was to be.

He served in •four wars—the Span-ish-American, the Boor War, the Boxer Uprising and the Mexican Revolution, and has been a sheriff, Texas Ranger, United States Marshal, rodeo competitor and a circus rider. The world-popular Texan first made his film debut in a small role of a Selig film of many years ago, and rose rapidly to the dazzling screen success for which he s so noted. Tom is of Cherokee Indian and Scotch extraction, is six feet tall, and weighs 170 pounds, ami his "fan" mail exceeds that of any other screen star.