Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1930, Page 35

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D ONDAY, DECEMBER 22 | |THE CHEERFUL CHERUB " A LETTER FOR GOOFy . { A 1T LookS LIKE A I'm writing this 1h WOMAN'S HAND WRITING. en 2eroplane § cannot see the YES, OLD DEAR, T THINK ITS FROM OKE OF THOSE ACHING HEARTS You CRACKED OUT IN THE 1 WONDER WHO IT CouLD BE FRoMP ITS POSTMARKED - SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA. ITS IT MAY BE AN OLD SWEETHEART OF HIS, HE USED To SPeak OF A J€EAN HIBDARD WHO LWED IN THE ‘as your dentist’s bill high?” h, but he asked me to marry him. MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY ‘MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif,, December 22 (N.AN.A).—According to present plans, the year 1931 will be without music of any sort in talkie fields. ©Of course, this seems radical, but it is quite consistent with Hollywood pro- cedure. We go whole-heartedly into everything. We went so whole-heartedly into the singing business that every actor and actress in the village had to sing their song when moguls first learned that the music trick could be turned on the screen. Studios have cleaned the song writ- ing teams out. They have let musical options slide. They have named no musical things on their schedules so far. A few of the song writers who had long- term contracts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are writing dialogue. Most of it sounds like a cue for a song, but at least they are toiling at something which might be usable. ‘Warners are through with all their fine importations. They had the team of Rogers and Hart, the finest in the land, but that was in the past. They had a lot of others, but all that are left » sre Kalmar and Ruby, and they are not doing anything in their line at Ppresent. ‘The tendency is back to romance, melodrama, and away from machine- gun epics. The gangman would seem to have had his day in the studios, un- less some story comes up with a thor- oughly unusual situation. When this occurs it doesn't matter what the sub- Ject is—the producers will fall for it. George Houston, American baritone, brought out here by M-G-M six months ), has never been used in the studio, he is a high-priced artist. to find a role suitable to Hous- , or failing to be convinced of the strength of musicals sufficiently to risk fortune introducing a new person- hing” and inactivity. a very air pilot—Hollywood contributes something to our g this makes Evelyn Laye's first| If I accept he'll have to pay it | field wrote, but which might have been | cooked up in any studio culinary de- | partment, is ravishing, smart, sings ex- | cellently, but is so thoroughly a citizen | of his majesty George V that one won- | cers why the studio didn't capitalize on |® charm that is so nationalized and | make the picture more convincing. I haven't seen a woman so lovely in riding clothes in a lifetime, nor have I seen a woman ride better. She ‘would have been divine in a story of the hunt- ing set—we haven't had a good one in a long time. And the riding she does in “One Heavenly Night” isn't the work of a double. As it is, it's just another of those mythical things, with “Zuppa,” Hun- gary, as the locale, and with John Boles being very male and fierce and Hun- garian with a Texas drawl. He sings | beautifully and his voice invariably |records well, but somehow there is a | flutter of impatience in the theater |these days when the continuity of even such a frail story as this is interrupted by a song. | "Leon Errol keeps the smiles on your face, though, and he is in the picture sufficiently to warrant you a cheerful couple of hours. So does the story, by the way, because you have a feeling from the very first second that the flower girl will marry the noble count and live in Zuppa to the end of her days. And from what glimpses I had of Zuppa it might be a good place to ship village scenarists who have come croppers. Gloria Swanson’s next will be with- out music, although the lady staged her comeback via the singing route. And a musical team is writing it—De Sylva, Brown and Henderson. (We're quaint that way out here.) And while they are writing David Halperin is su- ing them for $50,000 for the alleged plagiarism of his play, “Starlight Ga- bles,” which, he says, he found bodily in their story, “Just Imagine.” Halperin should put his head under his wing for having thought of that story first, if he did, instead of boldly suing for damages. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) world at all 1 hope it’s still beneath the clouvds «— Just the Beginning. uef’ and Jf (24 Bue FisHss Can't Teach an Old Rabbit New Tricks. PRAFESSOR, YoU WAIT HERE W(TH THe HORSE WHILE ROUGHHOUSE AND I PUT ON THE NOSE BAC — WE HAVEN'T EATEN SINCE WE STRANGE — HERE'S A VERY FINE GARMENT — ONLY ONE THOUSANAD ' DOLLARS = T's BEE-UTIFULLL I NEYER HTE THAT SWFF! LETs ¢o N ] cvin AND TRY some ! AND TaMALES 3 WELL, THERE GOES THE FIRST LOAD - THEVLL BE BUSH Ve\é\v‘:gl\mss\%\fiw\' Ve (O CHRIST! - HELPING SamTh CLAUS \S A LOT OF FuwN= TH, ANNIER =[REINCARNATION GOT T® Do WiTH THIS CoAT? ANSWER MG THAT. 1S THIS WHAT You CALL CHIL\ AND TAMALES ! YISSIR —- REAL MEXICANO EVERYTHING. YOU C| ME BELIEVE THAT A RABBIT CAN PASS AWAY~ AND “Come - AIN AS A MINK . lywood venture one of the last musi- ‘'we shall see for some time to come,| It is & very old belief that the souls there is a sudden changing of [of the dead pass to Heaven in the form of birds, and in the East it is still be- lieved that some L}tmthese souls flutter about us in bird fofm. TR English beauty in “One Heav- Night,” & story which Louis Brom- b 1 SLPPOSE \YOU'VE BEEN WONDERING WHERE SAM, THE SNOW MAN, WAS— WELL HE ALWAYS HELPS TO PACK MY BAG EVERY YEAR, SO WELL ¢IND WELL - COME - LET'S GO OVER 10 THE REINDEER STABLES AND SEE ¢ THEYRE ALL READY 10 LEAVE— HURRY UP KIDS - YOU KNOW THE AIME IS VERY SHORT NOW, AND 1 HAVE 10 SEE IF EVERY- 1{»401:;0 s RéAPDy My TRIP, RISTMAS 1L TARE c"evf THAT INSUN PICKING OUT SUIT,-T00 ALL THE 10yS THEY FO! "c’@-sw{"s& : “hem THEY. COULD HAVE ANY THING. »me}l WISHED | Ready for HE WAS IMAGINE CRAZY THAT! A THOUSAN' DOLLARS THERES A FIDDLER BY fOUR THE NAME. OF i r JASHA KREISLER e e f AN’ DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WHE, GETS FOR PLAYIN' For ON , HE DIDN’ TAKE - UP THE . Decayed. 2. The villain in “Othello.” . Variety of chalcedony. . Adjudge. . A seaweed. . Infirm. . Lines. . Snare. . Above. . Hindu units of weight. . Small North American rail. . City in Towa. . Catkin. . Breakwater. ing princess of India. vocal part, . 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River between Illinois and Indiana. | JEST LOOKIT! N HIT MAKE A PLUMB SWELL CHRISTMAS PRESENT FER NUH TO GIVE SOMEBODY= YUH WAS AIMINI' TO GIVE. I ME SOMETl;IN' WASN'T, . Handle. 30. Public slaughter houses. . Measure of capacity. . Angle. Moved with a lever, tril. ostril. Playing cards. . Tending to rise again. South American edible tubers. Black birds. MY FREN' SQUINTY S/ WHY, WHAT' PETERS OVER HERE ISGOT |1 WANT A NU-NU-NOTHIN' C-C-C-CEPT. .. 88 BUB- BURD S-S STUTTERS , 45 o By SLHUNTLEY Home