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Hollywood — The Stars
That's the way I sees my duty as a true American citizen, ladies.
" Now, I often been asked about my career. I can tell you this, which perhaps you'll find interesting. Several years ago m'wife and I figured to quit the pictures, and with what we'd got we'd buy a ranch somewheres and settle down good. But one day, ladies, as I was going along the street, I came to a cinema palace where they was giving one of my films. And, ladies, there was a line of young boys standing outside of that movie house waiting to get in so's to see me. And as I come along the road them boys sees who I am ; they reckernizes me, and one bumps the other with their elbows, and they say to each other : * See who that is ? Why, that's Tom Mix, our hero.'
11 Then I realizes, ladies, that God has given me a task to do in this life. I realized, ladies, as I'd never realized before, that I was the ideal of young American boyhood. I realized that young America had, so to speak, grown up under my shadder. And I goes home to the wife, and I says : 'We can't quit like we was planning to do. I got my dooty to do to young America, and as long as God gives me health and strength to carry on I'm going to do it.'
" Now, ladies, I often been asked how I do my work. Well, first I'll tell you I don't never use substitutes. I don't let no man take a danger for pay that I daren't take myself. So the first thing I sees to is that all our material is in first-class condition ; no accidents on account of anything breaking. Then I see my physical condition is as good as exercises and such can make it. No accidents on account of bad physical condition. And then, ladies," went on Mr Mix, rising on his toes and leaning over the balustrade and shaking his open hand to emphasize his grand climax, " then, ladies, if any accident should happen to me in the course of my playing I'll be sure that it's the voice of
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