EVERYBODY'S.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7562, 5 May 1919, Page 6

EVERYBODY'S.

TOM MIX IN "FAME AND

FORTUNE."

Tom Mix is nothing if not finicky Read and see.

In "Fame and Fortune," his new play to be seen at Everybody's toright there is n scene where ah outlaw fires at him and barely misses him.

Exactly how this was to be shown on the film was a question to the director, but Tom Mix had his own ideas about it. He decided that if he held & cigar in his mouth and had the man fre at him and break the cigar in half, the people who saw the picture would appreciated how near he was to having been hit.

Finally some one was found who was ■willing to make the shot. Mix stood before a glass rindow and was just about to light the cigar in his mouth M-hen the shot was tired. The bullet passed within an inch of his teeth, hioke the cigar and crashed through the window behind him.

"Do it again," Tom, "so that we •will be sure that we get it right on the film." '

Here, in sentence paragraphs, * the fact-story of Miji mixing it with Life.

Born on the Texan plains. Served r.s chief of scouts in Cuba in the Spanish-American war.

Organised Phillipine natives into American army unit.?. Attached to Ninth D.S. Tnfantry, participated in the battle of Tieu-Tsin, Boxer tiprising in China. Was severely wounded and spent several months in hospital. ■ , .

Joined the Texas Rangers and helped hunt down horse thieves and cattle rustlers on Mexican border.

Rewarded by State of New Mexico and commercial organisations for extermination, of Shonts' ' gang" in dugout on Pecos tiver, New Mexico, being seriously wounded in knee and shoulder in the fight.