Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1930, Page 26

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. €. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930: AL,I WANT You TO MEET MISY NECKER, My STENOGRAPHER! MR.MEGINIS IS THE OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM,MISS NECKER. KINDLY TAKE HIM AN AND INTRODUCE] VEry QOMFORTADLE, AL ! OH, BY THE WAY, I CERTAINLY HIRED & QoupLE OF SWANKY OFFICES USHBY AND MIENIS (iNC.) PROMOTERS of “THE BLUFFIT- BY- lfi 5 THE-SEA BATHING | Pop MOMAND | BEAUTY CONTEST L3 HevE TAKEN AN | Big-Hearted, | SFFISE IN THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING TILL IGNORED, THE LITTLE BOTTLE DRIFTS IN AND OUT AMONG THE AND PIERS - WIll. HWMM-M--- NES, | RECKOW A RAFT MIGHT FILL THE BiLL- HERE'S SOME LIKEWN TRMING TO FiSH FROM A SEACH LIKE TS — PORTRAIT OF A_MAN WRESTLING WITH HIS CONSCIENCE TO SMOKE, OR. NOT TO SMOKE MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, August 3 (N.AN.A).—Just to prove to you that the sun hasn't baked all the cynicality out of us, there was lively exchange of money about the village following the announcement of Vivian Duncan’s mar- riage to Nils Asther yesterday. Betting had been high in favor of no marriage coming of the anounced engagement. The know-alls believed that the romance in print meant head- lines for Nils, who needed them badly. In like manner nothing so keeps a girl in the foreground of activity, so far as print is concerned, as a nice fresh romance. Engagement announcements, black eyes, tnreatened law suits, and then marriage has kept La Vivian sole pro- prietress of front-page interest for sev- eral weeks. Follows the slump. always divorce or get into a lively mix- up which will land one safe and sound and profitably back in the big bold plack type. Funny men have the saddest time of .all the Hollywood crew. Because 500 or so pictures are turned out of here every year and the necessity for wise- cracking and humorous remarks is par- amount in 499 99-100 of them. Ralph Spence, writer of humorous ‘But one can street, etc.” is filed both under hen and street. Killing two hens with one stone, so to speak. When the need for a quick comedy kick comes with the delightful rush with which needs crop up in the village, Spence lugubriously hies him off to the files with the cross- filing system and digs out a jest. The system is some 10 years of age, I believe. I'm not seeking to take anything away from Pred Datig’s personality and charm in telling this story. Yet, it’s so typically Hollywood that I can’t resist. Datig, who is casting director at Para- mount Studio, and therefore in a posi- tion to do all sorts of things for those with the requirements, fell ill and had to go to the country to avold a nervous breakdown. In his absence his work was done by<his assistant. ‘Then news drifted through the colony that Fred Datig was back at his desk. Two hundred telegrams, = solicitously worded at that, immediately brightened the C. D.'s office until he was eye-deep in them. Began the phone. And, over the top of the yellow and blue enve- lopes, Fred Datig, casting director, began to answer the calls of congratulation. Somewhere around the twentieth he told the switchboard operator that he was in conference and to take messages. She did—100 of them. oy BUD Fisuss Can This True Story Be False? THESE TRUE LOVE STORES ARE BREAKWG MY L HEART: OH,OH, OH~ LISTEN TO € amvp NobaMeES Bov, IT FEELS GREAT To WAKE UPY TREES AND HANDY O THE SHORE %) ,‘»‘ “SHE WAS A HOSTESS INA DANCE HALL AT TEN CENTS A DANCE - HE LOVED HER BUT HE WAS TRYING TO BREAK THE WORLD'S RECORD FOR NOT WORKING = Boo- IN THE MORNING WITH NOTHING You CHIRPEO ITS MESSAGE. NEVER BE PICKED UP? “THEN SHE MET A CHAMPION - FLAGPOLE SITTER- BuT 60T A DIVORCE WHEN He CLAIMGD A WIFE'S PLACE WAS BY HER RUSBAND'S S\DE =" Boo Heo Hoo! CONTINUVED STORY, MUTT? YES, \T ConTINUVED To GeT WORSE « AH-HA — GET THE ; 2 FLY SWRTTER — ,‘| TAIN'T FLIES 1|/ AnD BY GosH, IT's 1] CIRCLING AROUND ONER HERD LIKE )i SOUNDS LIKE i \v's AN WE'VE GOT 1l AEROPLANE ! compANY TN T ON MY MIND! IF I'D STucK AROUND SCRAMSBURE LOOKING E ONER THOSE PICTURES IN THE 2 e BERUTY CONTEST I'D HR'VE — i\ ; 1“ “w ’ ! I kg™ F Al s s 227 NS\ == el )l w Z—\" = — 5 : : | il ||I”H‘ ”]"-I & whese LNe @ e - ] H\ | WinoY RS > o i Moax f, ; ot 11 ARE NOW \ LA VACATIONING f\ g IT's TRYING To GET i THE LoW DOWN ON i THiS JoINT ¢ b bt TD LIKE T'KNoW it . THE Bl6 - \DER ! Well, when Sol Wurtzel was promoted to the highest executive post at Fox with Winfield Sheehan, he had 50 din- ner invitations for the following evening. Just a touch of Hollywood subtlety! (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alllance.) dialogue, has protected his interests in this matter more thoroughly than any member of the local guild. He has a file valued at $100,000. The system is file and cross-file of humorous gags, Jjokes, epigrams and other minutiae of Wit, on every subject under the sun. ‘Thus: * does a hen cross the A TONSILFUL WHERE MEN = ARE MEN AND WOMER ARE ABSENT ey KENKLING — Daily Cross-Word Puzzle || s | mers™ | &N in Their Midst! MeNsught Syndicate. fne N Y. RUTH RAN'S - HARROD AVE. N-Y-C| BECAUSE HE DOESN'T TAKE GoLF SERIOUSLY Your SoN RAS PERFECT FORM AND HE RAITS A NICE DALL. WHY Do Yau SAY HE'LL NEVER CE A Goop . NO. R Was BEEN PLAYING “THE GAME FoR FNE YEARS ANO HE HASN'T SWORN ONCE FREEMAN The Hopeless 1. European King. 6. Lay bare. . Sucking fish. . Light house, . Courteous. . Spicy; fragrant. . Dwell. . Worry. . Glen. . Beak. . Hesitant interjection. . Interrogatory interjection. . English seat of learning. . Eastern interpreter. . Greek letter. . Cereal grass. . Perfume. . Those in ccntrol. . A writing: abbr., . The, in Spanish. . Secret agents. . Preposition. 40. Bone. Superabundance. . Winged. Energy. . Peacock butterfly. 30. Secret. . An Asiatic. . Solar god. . Half an em. . Sick. . Russian river. . Trying point of difficulty. . Clothes moth . Informs: coll. . Prance. . Fragrant powder. In the center. . Repetition. . Danish money, . Exclamation. . Wild party. . A Pharaoh. I'™M GOING TO GIVE YOU A GOOD WALLOPING FOR TAKING T WITHOUT :\smNG CAN T HAVE THE REST OF THE CAKE AFTER. THE WALLOPIN IN TRE PANTRY! DID YOU GET THAT CHALKLIT P . Butt. - . Decree of the Sultan. = Tuber. 2z 4 . First name of a famous exponent of ' an old Scotch game, ! . Biblical pool. . Asiatic bearlike animal. . Unit of square measure. . Small United States coins. . Chilled with ice. . Printer’s measure. 5. Strong wind. . Conjunction. . Uproar. | Birthplace of Abraham. . Old British kingdom. . Seared. . Mealy. . Egg-shaped things. . Foghorns. . Greek letter. . Near. 5. Doorkeepers in Masonry. . Splendor. . Madman. . Preposition. . A rising of bread. . Sharp ridge. . Pronoun. . Hawallan tuber, . Russian Czar, . Greek letter. . Wolframite. . Exclamation of triumph. 8y GENG BYRNES BAIT! YUH ORTA HAVE A WORM BUT WHAT'S T APPLL DOIN' THARS A WORM' INSIDE. . Single. ANSWERS TO CROSSWORD PUZZLES IN SUNDAY MAGAZINE oaRE NO0EE AREGS Al 'slle(TIAlP/E lisElalT] RIE/S|T] EEARE 3 v SLHUNTLEY Not the First Time a Poor Fish Has Been Thus lelsrieMsiElvien [slnioiwiEol [7]s]