Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1930, Page 41

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THE EX-CENSUS TAKER | 1S ADVISED TO INSOMNIA COMPLAINT I "COUNT SHEED” FOR KIS & BURTIS ) © 1330 The A, P Grent Beiain Rights Reserved MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, April 16 (NANA) .— Florenz Ziegfeld, authority on pulchi tude, arrived in Hol sage of good “Blonds aw the heart the blonds. n age-old memory in ays Ziegfeld. 2 , but they repre- o him. They stand for fon from routine, for unchar- tered ways. for the haunting pleasures of illicit things. “Back in the history of tht ancients one learns that daughters of joy were bleached blond to differentiate them from ladies of conventional morality. It was a caste mark, so to speak. And it st into the present in a sub- conscious memory—stronger because it is subconscious “For this reason a blond of equal pulchritude and personality with a bru- nette gains precedence over the bru- nette with the average man. It is be- cause of this atavistic survival, this shadowy memory in the heart of man. “There is always the exception to the e of rule. Red-heads are perennially fasci- nating because they appeal to the purely primitive. The brunette has her quota of adorers; that is because she has superior personal charms over the blond. All things being equal, the blonds would ave it.” Ziegfeld is here to supervise the pro- duction of Eddie Cantor in “Whoopee.” This blond and brunette business sets us thinking. Then Marion Davies wouldn't have to have as much charm as Evelyn Brent to get away with an| audience. Well, when you rise at dawn to face. wood with a mes- | “He | | notes in question. It was all because of a morality clause, violation of which, Langdon says, would have lost him his | contract with First National. First National went moral in a great b'g way that season. Alice White had one of those clauses in her concract. Langdon says he handed out the notes to friend husband to crush the noto- riety and keep the contract all that a | contract should be. He further says the’ lady left her husband before he became interested fn her, and lays the whole affair to the sort of persecution which settles about the great. Somehow the world doesn't expect Claude Melnotte in its comedians. When a funny man drops on one knee you expect him to land on a tack. And three stars used to mean some- thing far different from the opening of a new paragraph. Ho-hum! | And at the very last moment, with tickets. for the premiere of “All Quiet on the Western Front” issued and all, the studio recalls the film and_ substi- | tutes Beryl Mercer for Zasu Pitts in | the role of the mother of Paul. | Zasu Pitts, it seems, s too young to be the mother of the story’s lead, and | the studio is all for giving the public a | perfect product. This is sincerity in a | great big way. It costs money to sub- stitute a_lot of retakes at the last \second. Director Lewis Milestone will have to work night and day to put it | over. The end of the film is to be remade |50 as to correspond precisely with the | end of the book. It had been originally ¥ THE CHEERFUL CHERUB fly crawls vp the window pane ith_noisily buzzing win Ie ils me to the heart to see is earliesty sign of” R\GHT- Over the All Is Not 6. s GETTING TerRIBLY Fep up WITH THE \DEA OF » 2 | By Mo HANDLING e ° | Tue Py CHECK-BOOK. | What You T HERE IS i Call Control, | 2 NASTY, GLITTER N (THE L\T:I"L‘ . FELLOWS EYE - [/ von'T NoB - WORRN, MRS. TWINKLE -~ '\, 8¢ ALL AN \ Chn CoOME AN WS'T NMOL QFTEW- TH TROUBLE WITH YOU IS YoU DONT UNDERSTAND WOMEN,AL !! IH SURC IF YOU APPROACH YouR WIFE IN A QUIET GENTLE MANMER AND TELL. HER YOU WISH TO HANDLE, THE FINANCES, SHE WiLL g FIRST STOP - PITTSBURGH. ] GeNnTLEMEN) FweeT ) Fweet ¥ we'Re OFF. BAH! JUST TRYING To FRIGHTEN TeiS THING WOULDN'T EVeN SPOIL MY APPET\TE ! 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HOW LONG \WILL IT TRKE I DoN'T THINK THE JUDGE IS GONNR BE HERE THAT LONG, MOM — JUST COOK HIM | A“MINUTE STERK \\To_snou.? a gentie famous for his recognition of | made with a shot of soldiers trampling pulchritude you are to be pardoned a|forward over the bodies of their dead bit of giddiness if you have been aware | comrades. the while that your face doesn't begin | Remarque closed his book with this to point out until about noontime. paragraph: “He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western front. “He had fallen forward and lay on KENKLING = Windy Got a | — Peep at the Future! Harry Langdon proves to the colony | that & comedian may also be a sheik by his suit to recover $i5000 in cash | and $11,500 he doesn’t want to pay in notes 1o his wife's ex-husband, Thomas J. O'Brien. 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