The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-16
RUTH MIX IS GOING TO RIDE AGAIN.
Toms Daughter at Last to Star in Spirited Western
 Films
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Stan Correspondent

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 Hollywood-Wlth a yip-pee-e-e-e and @ hot-cha-cha, Ruth Mix rides againl
 This time she'll be comin' round the mountain hell-for~leather on a chestnut hoss named Tony, Jr, and with her gun tossin' terror into the black hearts of all villains of the range. She'll rescue her eastern sweetheart and they'll ride into the sunset together to live happily ever after, or until the story department can think up some more adventures and vicissitudes.
 Miss Mix, daughter of Tom, is going to be sure-enough western heroine for a change, and not one of your fluttery, frightened leading ladies. She had thought she was all washed up with movies because she was good and tired of wringing her hands and being rescued, and of trying to look fragile and help less.
 "The people who hired me- she said, "were just buying Daddy's name. They paid me good money for silly parts that a thousand other women could have done acceptably, and would have done for $50 @ week. The worst of 1t, though, was that I could have done the stunts and rescues as well as most of my leading men, but instead had to wear a blond wig and shiver like an ingenue.
 "The fact is, too, that I'm big ger than the average western vil- lain. Most western actors are shorties, and Daddy is awfully ashamed of my height"
 She's Juno
 Miss Mix is a big gal, all right. In her stocking feet, and by scrooching down 8 bit, she might come under the feet inches men, toned in her biographical data. And maybe, by holding on to some of Dr. Piccard's balloons, she would weigh only 12O pounds.
 But this is not to suggest that Miss Mix is Amazonian. Junoesque is better term. She is no taller or heavier than a musical comedy showgirl, and the truth is that for three seasons she decorated Earl Carroll's "Vanities." During the last season she did roping and singing act while clad in @ fetching little white leather costume suggestive of the great open spaces.
 She has jet black hair, brown eyes, a nice profile and an engag- ing grin. She's quarter Chero- kee Indian and was years old be- fore she could speak English. Now she speaks 1t better than most Americans, having attended some very good schools between summer tours in vaudeville and circuses.
 Although born on ranch in Oklahoma's Osage Hilsl, and being able to ride before she could walk, Miss Mix broke into the show busi- ness at the age of Il, doing straight dramatic sketches.
 Her maternal grandfather was @ first cousin of Will Rogers, and her Indian name is Theo-ta-wai ((F'leet Deer). She recalls that her mother (Olive Stokes Mix, now divorced from Tom) used to make a pun on her name. She'd say, You go this way and I'll 90 Theota- wal" Double Doubled
 Among her pictures were four se- rials, and four flickers with Rex Bell. In one of the latter she dou- bled for her own double-got tired of watching Mexican stunt man bungle what was supposed to be a spectacular fall and offered to do 1t herself for $25. She did, too. And collected.
 A year ago, deciding she had made her last picture, Miss Mix sold all her property and jewelry and bought a ranch between Phoe- nix and Tucson. It's small i6o acres-but 1t has a lot of water, and she leases 10000 additional acres from the government. It's the life she likes. She reckons her three. year movie contract with Grand National only in terms of the cattle she can buy for her place in Arizo- rla.
 The contract is specific on sev- eral points-she is to be the star in her films; she is to do her own stunts; and these stunts are to be photographed so that audiences will know she is doing them. Stories will be specially written for her, Her leading men won't be sissies, of course, but they probably all will be customers who know nothing of COW country ways.