Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1930, Page 33

I MOMENTOUS ERRORS. —By BURTIS I THE MAN WHO PUT A LIGHTED PIPE IN A RUBBER RAINCOAT MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, May 30 (N.AN.A).— A pretty little movie actress cried so hard to keep her diamond wedding ring that a hard-hearted bandit relented and gave it back to her. And thus Marian Nixon, sincere in her sentiment, handed over $12,000° worth of gems from her fingers to a train bandit Wednesday night and put the lad into such a nervous lather that he never noticed $5,000 worth of diamonds about | her throat. Even bandits have their nerves. Hold-ups in the colony zre as neatly timed as talkies. And trains are coming in for their share of the masked men’s interest. It only required seven minutes’ time for a hold-up on the train, the| bandit _successfully looting Marian | Nixon, Edward Hillman, her husband, | and a Detroit business man, Frank| Lehman. If Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson) | hadn't screamed, the robbery sequence | might have gone on to the end. But the little tap dancer wouldn't open the| Goor =f her drawing room to some one wno couldn't explain his identity, and yelled loudly to boot. She had had a glimpse of the masked lad in blue over- alls in the car aisle a moment before and knew that all was not well. Yesterday morning the village was in & hubbub over the incident. Rumors of gangster arrivals ficated through the colony some fiv: months ago. At that time two or our leading hostelries were supposed to be harboring a score or so of boys in pin-check suits and broken noses. Their grooming was 8s good &s their English was bad, it seems, and they knew too much about Chicago to pass muster. - ‘Talk about them died down. Things move too rapidly in this part of the world to hold interest for more than a fortnight. But there has been a gocd deal of activity among the light-fin- gered gentry of late—enough to give substance to the rumor. ‘Young Phillips Holmes is beirg be- sieged by producers since hig success in Edmund Goulding’s recent picture, Daily Cross-Word Puzzle . A knot in wood. 5. In frenzied manner. . Recoll. . Facial feature. . Person of low mentality. . Man's name, . Vigil. . Alaskan town. . Burdened with duties. . Shelter. . Hauled. . Destiny. . Squamous. . Ruling principles. . Monkey. . And, in French. . Terms. . Clumsy. . Prefix meaning threefold. . Eager. . Vales. . Shine. . By means of. Supported. . Seeming. . Ocean liner (ab.). . Lugubrious. . Happened again. . A small fish, . Ascribable. . Prefix meaning down. . Marsh. BURTIS wREssy Pty MERRICK. “Devil's Holiday.” This youth gave one of the best portrayals ihat has come from the studios these many months, and can pick his vehicle, or the pro- ducer, for that matter, at will, accord- ing to reports. He is the son of Taylor Holmes—a tall, ascetic blond, with %quiline fea- tures and splendid intellect. He will probably play opposité Helen Twelve- trees in her coming picture. ‘Taylor Holmes had been making short comedy subjects and playing comedy roles in feature-like pictures since the advent of talkies. Otis Skinner, George Arliss and Wil- ton Lackaye had lunch the other day and talked the talkies over. That's an unusual group for Hollywood. But this village is having 5o many unusual names and so many books and plays that they long considered out of their field brought successfully into it that sur- prises are out of the question. Cyril Maude, seeing the screen talkie version of “Grumpy” for the first time yesterday. is probably thinking of “Peer Gynt,” which he made 18 years ago, when Hollywood was flat as the palm of your hand and dotted sparsely with studio shacks. Maude leaves for London today. His interval here has been one of intense work. So was his first experience. But that was before the days of doubles or microphones. Strangest Hollywood trick—the lady who cultivates a little fingernail to the length of an inch and a half and en- amels it a bright red. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) Why It Is a “Steeplechase.” The term “steeplechase” nesds some explanation. A steeplechase was origi- nally run in a straight line across country to some fixed mark, easily seen. That was generally a church steeple. Hence “steeplechase” races. na THE EVENING 1 | [THE CHEERFUL CHERUD My heart was Full of oy today” en someone took it 21l swey And made me feel quite squélched and Plat —| She said she didnt like AS \F THERE WASWT J ENOUGH WATER HERE THERE'S | AN OLD PIECE Q' CANVAS - Water, Water Everywhere. MUTT, WE'WE 60T ouR. LAST DIME RIDING OR 8y BUD FisugE A Giraffe Would Have Won by a Neck. EXCUSE ME, WINDY - BUT A'Y MUST HAVE A Few i MINUTES ALONE WITH THIS LADY p | ey KEN KLING He’s Handing the Judge [& GOODNESS! | NEVER SAW YoU GRIEVE SO OVER. LOSING A GOLF MATCH FREEMA? Bad News Yet to Come. . Get out of the way. Nobls 3 e. . Pertaining to the mouth. . Gradual lessening of thickness. . Serf, . Ordinary. . Misrepresentations. . Small barrels. . Spirituous beverage. . Cabbage. Down. . Unite closely. . Girl's name. . Inquires. . Fume. . Part of the verb to be. . Barn compartment for hay. . Mouniain range in Europe and Asia. . Coal products. . Parts of the leg. . Ignite. . Hard white substance derived from certain animals. . Emana‘ed. . Recognized. . Mediterranean island. . Fit. . Shapes by knocking off pleces. . Overhanging edge of a roof. . Mythological giant formed of frost and fire. . Man’s nickname, 3. Mock. . Expunge. . Pusillanimous. . Closed. . Lacerate. . One who wanders about without aim. . Prickly envelope of a fruit. . A barrier, 6. Search. Areas. Stick used in billiards. . Puncture, Part of the body. . Indus rial spy (siang). 5. Recess at altar end of church. . Plece of cheap finery. Down - poiniing projection on a horseshoe. . Prineipal town Samoan Islands. l . Rind. . The Gaelic languags, . Boy. . Adverb termination, SINCE READING OF THE EVENT IN THE Soaiety CLARICE HAS BEEN A BDIT DID YoU READ ABOUT THE JONESES LEAVING FOR BLUFFIT-By- THE SeA ? I SUPPOSE YouR P4 EXPECTS ME To SIT AT HOME IN THIS HOT oLD CITY ALL SUMMER — BUT 1 WON'T ! COLUMN, LIKE 1T MIGHT VO~ ANNTHING'S BETTER'N BEWNW RAVNED O™~ HE'S AT THE PoST: He'S LEANING ON (T - HE'S OFF. I DoN'T MeAn HE's on H'S BACK THE JockeY - = MEAM THE HOSS! AN OLD CUY LIKE THAT MEDDLING WITH STRANGE WOMEN === GET WHEN GOLF GETS UNOER. Y SKIN LIKE TRIS You SMUOI?DQ‘ GINE UP -THE GAME. [F You SHE SAID THAT A PERFEC’ GENTLEMAN WOULDN' POKE HIS HAND IN THE BAG | AN’ PICK OUT JELLY- BEANS FOR A JUST IMAGINE .. TS ALMOST SUMMER AGAIN- T DON'T MeAN STAR. WASHIRGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, MAY 30. NO AND HES 30 DUMB IN A BUSINESS WAY THAT IF HE COULD BUY STANDARD oIl FOR TEM CENTS A SHARE, ;F‘ L";:LD TUY A CoURLE & IN ICELAND INSTEAD HE'S BEEN Ac‘rmen MYSTERIOUS OF LATE ! AW = JUST LKE A YewT- | GUESS MBNRE THIS \SN'T NCE AND COZM-WEL- JUST SIT HWERE \T "STOPS- OUR JOCKEY MUsT BE CROSS-EYED --~ RE's WHIPPING ™e WRONG NAG- ; OUT OF DE JUDEES He'LL WHRAT HE DESERVES [ WERE You A HEAVY LoSER TooAY ? HE SHOULD LET THE LADY HELP HERSELF, SEE? vou INSULTED AINT IT A SWELL MORNING 605K, JUST TAKE A LUNGFUL OF THET THAR AR'.___sAv, HOW DO VYUH FIND YORSELF THESE FINE MORNINGST 'S THe BRAVEST PONY IN THE WORLD- HE'S CHASING ALL THE oTHER HOSSES AROUND THE SAY -+ 1 SEEN YoU COMIN' IS DRT GolL STILL N DERE ? HE nEveR || ExAcTLY ! HE DUCKS ouT OF HERE EVERY MORNING AS IF THERE WERE A BUNGH OF BILL COLLECTORS AFTER HiM! AND IN HIS SLEEP HES ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT A PARADISE PAWNSHOP! IM GOING TO LEARIN' L\ZaRDS! \ FORGOT “THAT WATER M\GWT RuUn ALONG TH GROUND = BRRRR W S ' N ‘ ey R | ¢ X HAD Been RIDING | THAT HosSS -WE would HEY Jupce' WiNDY i TALKING ! DON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS -- - - i OUT AND MAKE IT RAPARTMENT ! | THE QIRL ? AN, Yo'l BE IT MAY BE 'DAYS aR T '&Av' OE WEEKS OR PoSSIBLY MONTRS BEFORE § CAN SUM UP -TRE., RESULT OF “ToDAYS DEFEAT /N FULL. 1 COULDN'VE INSULTED HER VERY MUCH ON ACCOUNT OF 1 ONEY GAVE HER TWO JELLY BEANS! JEST FLING BACK TH' COVERS AN’ THAR L AM