Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1930, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SO You SENT THE WiRe TO YOUR UNCLE EDDIE NOT DECEMBER 24, 1930. HEAVENS, ye S! TiL NEveR FORGET How UNPLEASANT IT WAS WA THAT MAN WOWWOW KL HERE! TS Too BAD ABOUT YouR D& YES, ITS Lucky HE SENT US THAT L€ SO THAT T CcouLD HEAD Hitt oFfF! Gee! WE WOULD BE IN A WELL, WE JOST COULDNT HAVE HIM HERE FOR CHRISTHAS. You ARE OUT OF A JoB AND THINGS COULDNT BE WHATS TH' DIFF I HAVEN'T SeEen HIM SINCE T WAS A KID OF TWeELVE, AND HES A PECULIAR, OL Joy 1s much more real than pain. Its memory lives on and on, While no one thinks of pain that's past Efc_cpt to reslize L ’ ¥ | Pop Momano Poor Uncle .. CE\ESTE = $ §OUND ASLEEP- BETTER PUT HER TO BED, BUT €€ CAREFUL AND PONT WAKE WHER LP- “THE CHEAP SKATE! HE NEVER BRINGS ME CANDY ANY MORE.”" MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 24 (N.AN.A) —Santa Claus makes ready for the big chimney slide out here, with | the thermometer at 42 degrees of morn- | ings and warming to Summer heat by | noon. % The streets of the movie village are | lined with lighted Christmas trees. Huge firs, sparkiing with colored electric lights, are to bé found in most of our gardens. But the public celebrations seem to be muted somewhat from last | year’s extravagances. The aerial Santa Claus, scattering a fake snowfall on Hollywogd village, is conspicuous by his absence. For an| entire week this sky pilot, in red flannel and with streaming white beard, emptied his sacks of synthetid snow on holiday shopy But along the boul where these festivities marked the Yule a year ago are two banking institutions ‘with sealed doors. And the merchants | who sponsored that most carnival of | Christmas weeks have felt the pressure | of this desperate year too deeply to stage such pageantry. Leading Hollywood restaurants are sending out cards of invitation to their regular patrons to be their guests on Christmas day. The studios are setting huge tables, holly hung and sprinkled Wwith evergreens, and here many of the bit players, electricians and extra le who have been identified with the| ots during the year will have their Christmas cheer. A good many writers got the sack for Christmas, but not the traditional | Christmas one, bulging with goodies— the blue slip, with the familiar “Your services will no longer be needed” greet- ing on it. And a score or more have been put on week-to-week basis, as against the three-weck standard of some time back, just to give a flllip to the| holidays. | Big parties, unless they happen to be | the type of thing Marion Davies staged | for the veterans or benefits to help the unemployed, are out this year, but there is a good deal of small suppering, with . toasts beink drunk to better .times in | 1931 and humorous grousing about the tragedies of the past year. A screen beauty sprawled -amid holly | Peo-| the celluloid center. MERRICK. and tinsel Monday night at one of these informal groupings and told animatedly a series of jokes which belonged in rooms with sawdust floors—in the days when such places existed. Nobody paid any attention to the radio. It's dron- |ing had backgrounded.the party since tea time. But her wildest Rabelaisian flight had the obligato of “Holy Night,” sung in a sacrosanct baritone. * Hollywood—a picture village of steep- est ironies! Michael Arlen is coming back to write another of those delicately farcical things which move so falsely and patricianly along. This time Sam Gold- wyn is bringing him out. Sam Goldwyn brought Louis Bromfield to the gelatin fold, and if L. B. ever lives down Hollywood period he’ll be doing well. When Arlen visited Hollywood once before there were more screen players and less literati in evidence. Tom Mix was master of ceremonies at a dinner in Arlen’s honor, and the fun got so steep that the author was hailed as a “rug merchant,” and other slighting refer- ences to his Armenian ancestry formed the basis of the evening's humor. Ar- len, who had put green headgear in its place in the sun, just didn't see Holly- wood for dust. It has grown up a lot since then— It has lost a little of its surety. The fine edge is gone off its insolence. The profits are dwindling from gold-rush returns to normal busi- ness turnovers. And the boys who make pictures are anxiously scanning the horizon for & savior. . Unless something happens quickly, the public is going to get the backgam- mon and camelot habit. They'll even be playing bridge for fun instead of money if we don't think up something to get them back into the movie theaters. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) Jchn T. Mordecai, found guilty at Cardiff, Wales, for running down and killing 'a man, has been sentenced to three years in'prison and forbidden to drive aa automobile until he is 59 years old. Across. 1. Wading bird. 5. Historical tower. 10. Over again. 14. French painter and engraver (1833- | 3). | 15. Magistrate of Rome. pigeon. . A layman. 18. Destitute. 19. Applier. 20. Monastic order, Palestine. 22. Fragrant. 24. Unexploded shells: collog 26. Feminine name. 27. Extinction alline white salts. Prov. Eng. sional document. 38. Opinion. 39. Chinese wéight. 41. River flowing through Portugal and Spain. 43 Masculine nickname. 44. Fungus. 46. Became withered. 48. An intimation. or more horses. lually slower: mus. abbr. PAGODA IC AMERAS) MELT] . One who shuns. . Red chalk: var. Terrible. . Feminine name. . Greek god of love. . Declare confidently. . Re-lcase. . Sails and spars. Jaws. . Anoint. . Noted German rear admiral, sunk off the Palkland Islands. Down. . Slothful. . Neckpleces. . Rainbow. . Withdraw from fellowship. . A married man who has long been a bachelor. American humorist. . Frame upon which coffin is placed. Church official. City in the Netherlands. Flattered serviley. To scent. . On a par. 3. Were: poet. . Hard shell fruits. . Death notice. 5. North American rails. . Lavishes extreme fondness. 28. To equip with arms. . Belgian city. . River of West Africa. 3 ;“g m:ri:e‘l\w law, . Theatric uct. . To guide. - . More guileless. . Those who despise. . Apart. . A woody perennial plant. . Take out, in printing. . Cutters. . Trees of the genus alnus. . Ancestor of Jesus. Type of cheese. . One of the Hindu trinity. 38. Gang. . Streamlet. . Let fall in drops. [ BUO FisHes The Victim of a Kiss- and-Run Driver. KENKLING Invention for Pancakes. Asleep on the Job. IF ANYONE CALLS To SEE ME~ Tew ‘EM ITM NoT HERE. IM ALL 7 Gus GOOD WiILL TOWARD MEN ! IT MAKES ME REMORSEFUL T® THINK HOW T TREATED JEEE ALL YEARS HERE HE (S Now ! AH! You NEED SOMETHING To BRACE You UP! ME GET You BOTTLE OF TEQUILA FOR CHRISTMRAS — MAKE You FEEL — SANTA, DOT, AND DAN ARE IN_THE SLEIGH ROOM “THE REINDEER ARE ALL HITCHED 10 THE BIG RED SLEIGH WHICH 19 FULED WITH “Toys ——AND — SANTA w ReEADY 10 LEAVE ... & B HIT WAS CHRISTMAS N TH BUAK HOUSE Wig & AN NOT ONE WAS IN THEY BUNKS, “rHEY ALL LAY o TH' FLOOR ... |4 1 SPENT AN HOUR ON MY RITHMETIC LAS NIGHT! [ OUGHTA GET EIGHTY-M’ PER CENT IN THE EXAMINATION TODAY! A SLEW OF SLOPPY DRUNKS JEEF, MY LITTLE PAL- Now ON-You ARE GoING TO GET ANTHING BUT NOowW FOR A S\POF MEXI\CAN STIMULENT 1 OUGHTA GET A HUNERD CAUSE T SPENT TWO HOURS ON 1T LAS" NIGHT! (SMACK) PRETTY Co0D L AND THE BEST. PART OF THIS IS {T DOESN'T deT You DIZZY UKE SOME OF THAT 54 1 OUGHTA GET A HUNERD'N FIVE CAUSE I SPENT NINE HOURS ON IT LAS’ NIGHT ! "TWAS TH NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, AN’ ALL THROUGH TH HOUSE. WE'LL TEACR YoU PEDESTRIANS SToLE MY CRP FULL OF MeXIcAN JUMPING K\DDIES ARE { IN BED NOW- ; SO TLL BEGIN el Wt THAT PILLOW An'SLEPT NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING, B NOT EVEN A MOUSE . 1 CAN JEST \ SIT HERE AN