Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1930, Page 47

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930. P. O, BUT 1 DO WISH HE HAD MORE WHATA You COMFIDENCE IN MY BUSINESS ABILITY.|| MEAN, YOU'VE ME WAS QUITE PEEVED wHew I Sor s TOOK OVER THE FAMILy FINANCET. WHEW HE COMES HOME THIS EVENING TLL TELL HIM OF My NEW PLAN — IVE DECIDED WE WiLL EACH HAVE OUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT! You TAKE ¥ 12,600 AMD TLL KEEP 312,500 AND WE'LL SEE WHO HAS THe BETTER BUSINESS HEMD! I'™M TNKING OF ENTERING Gl THE FinanCiAL SOME AROMATIC 0 R ALOYSWS. PO Y- SPIRITS OF AFTER ALL,1 GUESS IvE BEEw A BIT TOO SEVERE wWITH HiM — HE HAS MOMENTOUS ERRORS. THEY FAILED TO RECKON WITH THE SCRUB WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE [~ OF CHECKERS WHEN THE New _3°4° FLOGR WAS LAID % MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, April 17 (NAN.A)— *My interest in talking pictures was great enough to lure me from retire- ment in London. After almost half a century before the footlights, I decided I had had enough of the stage and that I would sit back and take life easy. “Then talkies came into existence. I was mildly interested at first, but soon that interest grew in intensity. Some- thing new and tremendously big had entered the world of the drama. I wanted to be in it, so here I am.” Cyril Maude, in his bungalow at the Ambassador Hotel, was seeing studio executives and the press an hour after the train had brought him back to movieland after 14 years’ absence. ‘business here this time is to play the name lead in a Paramount version of “Grumpy,” the play he made famous on the legitimate. ‘Maude left a village in very truth at the conclusion of his amazing experi- ence making “Peer Gynt” for the silent films in what was then the pioneering days of the industry in star material. PFrankly admitting that silents never really intrigued him, the English actor, with a merry twinkle in his eye, re- called his former adventures in Holly- wood, and admitted that they seemed more mufla: when softened by the ve of 14 3 3 after investigating !h“‘%‘nfld is still hamleting at the old stand. have ways and ways of pro- ducing & new song in He . Hal Tierney put over one of the most orig- inal methods of late when a melody hit for which he had been wal ‘bobbed His | & into his head while he was week end off beneath the pines at Lake Arrowhead. He hied him to a telephone and la- la’ed the tune to his lyric writer on the lot in Hollywood. In the morning his Iyric arrived via telegraph. And inside of 24 hours the finished number was on strip and neatly colled away in & tin can. Glen Hunter found Broadway too lonely, so it's Hollywood for him once again. Jim Cruze will direct him this time. The indefatigable Cruze is about to give Roscoe Arbuckle another try in cinema. . Hunter 18 charming when cast as a wistfully humorous youth. His first in- cursion into the gelatin kingdom came the silent regime. Hunter, with a trained voice, felt then that panto- mime did not give him full scope for his_talents. second attempt will probably have more satisfying results. Richard Walton Tully is goine to give “The Bird of Paradise” its cellu- loid initiation very soon. Eighteen years of litigation having established that Bully is author of the play, village scenarists probably will rewrite it into be the signal 1V tiave arvived the gangsier cpidemic ‘e have su e 3 the war furore, the h&-flue stuff and inni other cycles, including the tage of sound and talk, Hawallan music, this should make ex- cellent talkie material. Assistant Director (to blond from the “Polliu")——'lz;llli Miss Hoofit, what do ? got nerves? I've saw that gag a dozen times since I came i Hollywood if I've saw. it oncet. (Copyright, 1930.) | Daily Cross-Word Puzzle I . Leave out in pronouncing. 6. 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Cuts of edges. . Good-b .m . An eagle. 31. Wild animal. . Son of Adam. . Actuate. . Point aimed at. . Depressions between mountains. . The devil; any fiend. . Lobbies. . Trusting. i . A walking stick. . Creator of the theory that one per- son can create an abnormal con- dition of sleep on another and subject him to the operator’s will. Abrogate. 4 u 3 . Any air vehicle, eou.'“m . Woolen cap. . Immerse momentarily. . Here, French. —s ‘The British Board of Trade has awarded ornamental plates to the cap- tains of the ships which Tescued 213 survivors from the Vestris after it sunk in the Atlantic in November, 1928, uj,faf“ O GRAY Annie Pitches In. By SLHUNTLEY Almost - Convincing. [[TriEe o) NO THIEF, ThaT KID'S STARTIN OUT L\KE A WORKER- SHES MADE AL [T SEDS- S\nev‘r;\wu\ntb W DISHES AW SHES QUT CHURNIN' = THIS 1S TOUGH WORK. T'VE BeeN PULLING TH'S GLIDER THREE WHERE'S Dis ¢uy RWEY N’ DE Junck T DEY SLIPPED ME PRL JACK DEMPSEY \T AIN'T OuUT-1IM HERE T'STRAIGHTEN DEM 0UT! 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