Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Colonel Tim McCoy of cinema and circus fame went to Providence, R. I. as a headliner in Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus. There he met Benjamin Ladd Cook, amateur sportsman, former M. F. H.. and 30-year associate in Hornblower & Weeks. The two men discussed circuses and horses, and McCoy wound up by saying that what the U. S. needed was an honest-to-God wild west show. Last "authentic" wild west show. McCoy insisted, had been...
Buffalo Bill's in 1913. Last one of any kind, the "101," had folded in 1931. Fired by the idea, the two of them decided to do something about it. Last fall Cook left Hornblower & Weeks, McCoy left Ringling Bros. McCoy threw $100,000 of his own money into the venture, acquired 51% of the stock. Cook approached 150 sportsmen and men of substance to buy the remaining 49%, landed...
...past winter, acts were thought up, men and animals bought up, the show licked into shape. Besides a whole battery of rodeo and roughrider acts, McCoy devised an elaborate pageant that would give a new generation a vision of the old West-cowboys & Indians, stagecoaches & covered wagons, ranches & Indian villages...
...Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with...
...little difficulty in finding out how many U. S. automobiles were sold in a given week or how big a circulation a newspaper had on a certain day. They can learn readily how many U. S. citizens attended what movies in any particular week. But nobody can get the McCoy on book sales. The best-seller lists are no more reliable than the Literary Digest's notorious Presidential poll...