Word: mix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Destry Rides Again (Universal). Tom Mix rode a horse in the Spanish-American War long enough to get shot in the mouth. Subsequently he took minor roles in minor skirmishes with Chinese, Mexicans, Boers. For a time he served as a U. S. deputy marshal in Colorado. In 1910, when moving pictures were still flickering violently, he was offered $150 a week to appear in Selig films. Followed, mostly for Fox, some 180 Wild Westerns with 100 more or less leading ladies playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned...
Whatever the vagaries of his private life, Mix's screen life has been impeccable. He has never been shown smoking, drunk, or disorderly beyond the usual rowdiness of a film-land cowboy. Destry Rides Again remains true to the Mix tradition. And if it were not the first of six Mix talking pictures which Universal is to produce, all preceded by loud publicity, one might suspect that Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled...
...Mix's comeback at 52 is not likely to excite anyone except small boys in the villages, where they give away 10? Mix cowboy hats to early comers at the show...
...desperate sugar industry with 2,105,000 long tons overproduction asked Mellon Institute to find new uses for sugar. Result: Gerald Judy Cox and John Metschl resurrected and perfected an ancient masonic formula for strengthening mortar with syrup. To every 100 Ib. of quicklime in a lime-sand mortar mix they add 6 Ib. sugar. The sugared mortar is 60% stronger than ordinary mortar. Sugar last week sold at 4½? per Ib. wholesale. The two sugar investigators also perfected commercial methods of making citric and oxalic acids from cane sugar. They have also made sucrose octa-acetate and sucrose...
...until Depression hit the oil industry. But its greatest fame came from the Wild West circus organized in 1906 by the first Col. Miller's three sons, George, Joe & Zack. The troupe comprised some 1,400 cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, Cossacks, animal trainers, 600 horses, hundreds of wild animals. Cinemactor Mix and Funnyman Rogers got their start there. Col. Joe rode in a saddle set with 246 diamonds. Gems glittered in the neckties and on the fingers of the other brothers. In 1914 the show closed. When it reopened in 1924 interest in the Wild West was dead. For seven more...