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it through the air and onto the deck in safety. All right. Simple enough.
Noomis took the car up about a mile and brought it down hill so that he would crash the gate at a certain speed. Naturally, he couldn't see until he'd crashed through the gate, what was being done the other side of it. And the gate was just on the land side of the apron. When he did see it, it was too late to stop. The engineer of the ferry boat had made a mistake and was three automobile lengths away instead of one. The car and Leo shot into space, did a beautiful one and a half gainor, and came down in forty feet of black and dangerous water. Fortunately the centrifugal force of the thing threw the driver out of the car and they fished him out more dead than alive.
The same sort of a mistake on the part of the "other fellow" cost Perkins his life.
TOLD him," said Clarence Brown, "to stay on the ■*• ground. Told him he was all right as long as he did his stuff alone. His sense of timing and distance was so perfect and his body control was so fine that he had a pretty good chance to pull through most of his stunts. But he didn't listen. They never do. One day he did a stunt from a rope ladder hanging from a plane. The pilot was supposed to swoop down and let Perk drop to the top of a freight train. He swooped too low. The ladder banged Perk against the side of a freight car at seventy-five miles an hour — and Mrs. Gene Perkins was a stunt window, that's all."
It's a funny thing how a man wants to see his family carry on the tradition of his work. Gene Perkins had a kid brother whom he tried to break in as a stunt man. But after a few months the kid lost his nerve and went back to — a clothing store! He's still alive.
As a stunt man Tom Mix has no superiors and few equals. The man doesn't know the word fear, is as inventive as the devil when it comes to figuring out safe ways of doing dangerous things, and has a positive genius coupled with extraordinary physical strength, for getting himself out of tight places. The thin vein of philosophy, which is the foundation of Tom's character, colors even his viewpoint on stunts. [continued ox page 122]
a Real Stunt Man
This stunt man took a bicycle ride around a twelvestory building. He got S25.00. And he also nearly got an obituary notice in the Los Angeles newspapers
The crash in the "Ben-Hur" chariot race was planned for a certain turn where ten cameras were working. The axle was sawed with careful calculation to break at that turn