Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1930, Page 18

01 T & B 43 Kb Bt - M “THE FOOL DOESN'T NEED MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 31 (N.AN.A) —We're not expecting to put old 1930 out with much fanfare on the THAT. IT'S NOT RAINING!” |as yet, but she’s a darling, and has the tests I saw Monday mean anything. BEDTIME STORIE Above and Below. ‘The worst you have is not so bad As some one eise has surely had. —Old Mother Nature. For a time Stumpy, the crippled young Muskrat, lived in constant fear of the return of Little Joe Otter or Billy Mink. Only when he was curled up with his father and mother in the snug but crowded bed room in the bank of the Smiling Pool did he feel quite free from fear. You see, two things had happened to make him fearful; he had seen his sister caught by Little Joe Otter and he had been chased right to the door of that very bed room by Billy Mink. The Smilling Pool, which with its roof of ice had seemed such a safe and wonderful place, the finest place in all the Great World. no longer seemed BY THORNTON W. BURGESS it he felt trapped. He said as much to Jerry Muskrat. “That is because you have had two frights down here,” sald Jerry. “It might have been just the same had there been no roof. Your sister might have been just as foolish, and Efobnbl)’ would have been. Billy Mink might have seen you and chased you straight home just the same. You have learned something of two possible enemies to watch out for, and with your experi- ence you will be better prepared for them ‘another time. You don't know what a bad Winter storm is yet. When | you do you will be thankful for the roof on_the Smiling Pool. Stumpy doubted this, but wisely didn't say so. Afterward he was glad of this, for it was only two days later that he swam to the open water in the Laugh- | ing Brook just above the Smiling Pool, | and as he put his head out of water it | seemed as if his breath fairly snatched from him. Rough Brother North Wind was howling and roaring and blowing such a cloud of icy parti- cles before him that Stumpy was forced to close his eyes. They stung his face. He crawled out on his favorite tussock. The lcy B.mclu were blown into his fur and he was glad to dive into the water again. ‘Twice afterward that day he tried it and twice was driven back. And such & contrast as there was. Above that roof of ice the storm raged so that no living thing could face it. All through the Green Forest the little people in feathers arid fur sought shelter where they could find it and shivered and went hungry and were utterly miser- able. Over in the dear Old Briar-patch Peter Rabbit and little Mrs. Peter re- treated down on the old house that had been dug by Johnny Chuck’s father years before, and were glad of that shelter. Below the ice was serene and quiet. No more peaceful place could have been found in all the Great World. Of the shrieking and howling of Rough Broth- | HE CRAWLED OUT ON HIS FAVOR- ITE TUSSOCK. | er North Wind nothing, not so much as | & murmur, was to be heard. Water 'pllnu on the bottom swayed in the gentle current in Smiling Pool § as in Midsummer. Trout and minnows darted about or lay motionless. They didn't know that up above it was storm- ing and many little folk were in for bard times, much of their food buried and the snow and ice making AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. to Jerry . “The Smiling Pool isn't such a bad place, even with a roof over it.” “Of course I am right,” replied Jerry. “You are lucky to be living in the Smil- ing Pool. A chance visit from Little Joe Otter or Billy Mink is all we have to fear, and if we keep watch we needn't fear this much. I wouldn't change places with Reddy Fox or Peter Rabbit or any of the other folks who live on land in Winter. Phew It makes me shiver to think of just trying to keep warm in such a storm as is raging up above this very minute.” | yri In the 1929-30 fiscal year Soviet Rus- sia’s imports from the United States were about 125 per cent greater than in the previous 12 months. | “Maybe I wasn't second choice, but | bein’ invited to & bridge party the day it happens looks mighty suspicious.” (Copyright. 1930.) this at all. With that roof of ice over THE CHEFRFUL CHERLD I hope youve liked me, Reader, All_through the year that ends, And that sl through the next one i o 7 SAy, EDDIE, WHY DONT Yoo GET LTTLE BAMDBING A BABY carriaGe ? olP BT KIND ¥ By Pop MOMAND A Good Start. JUST A MOMEWT, FOUXS - WHEN THE MUSICAL GONG STRIKES \'T WILL BT EXACTUN TWELVE, MIDNIGHT, EASTERN STANDARD TIME - w HEALTHY AT PRESENT AL, SOONER OR LATER SULPPLY A CARRIAGE FOR BING. 1 AINT WORRIED, PROVIDENCE WILL WHAT T IF YOU LEAVE IT TO THAT GUY, L\TTLE BINO WiLL HAVE A BEARD ™ HiS PEET BEFORE HE GETS A CARRIAGE! TLL S€E FWHAT!! SIXTY BUCkS ForR A BaBy CARRIAGE ? CAN DO - 3 P OMEWN N MO HEAR. \NWEN MUS\CAL CHIMES \T AH!SIR, BUT THIS || I CANT AFFORD 1T, IS A VERY SUPERIOR || BUT DAWEONIT, VEHICLE — A MODEL || TO-HORROW 13 NEW DE Luxe! FIT For || YEAR'S, anp Tt A PRINCE, SIR - GOING TO SEE THAT LTTE BNO STARTS 1931 RIGHT, BY TRAVELING N TV NOW BXACTLY MIDRNAGHT . PACIFIC COAS Time, FoLKS, AND A FIRE < > WL\, 8 EXASTLN MID-NIGHT, MO ing, ‘beluty and lots of dramatic ability if | 1] \ gelatin coast. Let's see, that five. We have a few Either out of respect to the prevail- | more girls to account for. Oh, I for- ing money stringency or because that| got Marcelline Day, who will look self-same stringency has been felt by |rather ravishing in an overseas uni- the most prosperous of the movie group, | form. And the Keating twins—because celebrations will confine themselves to!the script calls for an identical pair of small groupings at homes, with the|twins. Then there's the character of night clubs, hotels and other large | the snoop, and Mae Busch and Dale gathering places left pretty much to Fuller have both been given tryouts on the civilians. this one, but no appointment has been In fact, so slow has the night club|made for either. racket been of late that George Olsen‘ — 18 closing his Culver City Club and tak-| In the making of pictures the love ing himself off to Paris, where the gay scene is considered the most dangerous vfim\lnzle- Audiences have a tendency to oung things disport themsel O g O Amaacial con | titter when the hero becomes impas- . S he same thiDl 1 true of per | same thing e of a number | of orchestras which command a high | Beaudine gets away from this danger price and which have been playing of (in “Without Men.” But, on the other nights for the entertainment of a few | hand, how is he going to get the sex languid youths and maidens whose| angle, which is, we are told, the heart Checks are chiefly couvert and ginger | Of box-office appeal? t n : & - - g - Eloyally and rsonal bravery. Th Now that we have had two success- | story is a red-hot love epic, even if the ful pictures without women, I was more /men aren’t shown. How is he going to | sioned and plants a fervent kiss on heroine’s lips. AINT A MOOSE 1N A MILLIDN q miLes: HEY! SomeBedY TC, R : STUF F, THAT GUIDE Swi oUR CLOTHES:' WE GUY THAT B IT'S CoLD ENOUGH LUP HeRe MOOSE MUST HAVE - IN CANADA T© FROST 1 | STALKED HIMm IN OF OURS COULDN'T CAKEs WE AIN'T SEEN A than interested in Willlam Beaudine's forthcoming picture with nine women and no men. 1In fact, the tentative title is “Women ‘Without Men"” or “Without Men.” After hearing the cast which Beaudine has selected, I have no doubt that the men will not be missed at all. Evelyn Brent is the leading woman, and Irene Rich is the head of the am- bulance corps, which includes the per- sonnel of the story. It's a war episode, and this ambulance unit gets side- tracked on a wrong road in heavy shell fire and Jands up in the front trenches instead of 25 miles behind the lines, where they are supposed to be. Two ex-ambulance girls wrote it—Gertrude Orr and Doris Malloy, and they know their ground. Added to all this is Louise Fazenda as comedienne and Lilyan Tashman as the hard-boiled chorus girl who con- tributes so much vitality and ginger to the story. (They're having a hard time sbout the profanity which such a girl ‘would necessarily contribute. The cen- sors are very rigid about all this.) June Clyde is the little blond lead. Xou haven't seen her in many pictures Daily Cross-Word Puzzle |do it? He let me in on the trick, and its’s pretty clever, I can tell you. | "The funniest part of this story is the fact that agents peddled it about Holly- | wood for months, and it was turned down by all the leading studios because |1t was too radically different. Then a, |man who had never been in motion | picture production before, Nate Gum- | bin, read it and promptly bought it for a song. A few weeks later one of our larger producing units offered him a sum | which would have netted him a profit |of $23,0 He studied a while, and then sai “If it's enough for them, it's good enough for me.” ‘There's a bit of new blood coming | into movie making. (Copyright, 1930. by the North American Newspaper Allf | - . L ‘The Grand Theater of Brighton, Eng- land, which for 30 years was the home | of melodrama and recently produced | such plays as “The Worst Woman in | London” and “The Girl Who Took the | Wrong Turning,” is to be converted linto a talkie house. H MOOSE TODAY. THEY MUST HAVE GoNE TO FLORIDA FoR THE Moosey, Moosey, Thou Wander? NOW THRT YOU'VE 60T OUR MECHANICAL HORSE IN THE AGUR CALIENTE WINTER, NOT SO LOUD ! (F ANYONE GETS WISE THAT THIS ISN'T A REAL HORSE We'LL BE SHOT. DON'T WORRY ‘BouT GETTING Hewlo RILEY! FoURTH PAIL OF WATER I SRW You CARRY INTo THE STABLE ! TAKE MY AINICE AND DON'T EIVE YOUR BAY, THATS THE HANDICAP, You'D BETTER | “ym ReADY - I'LL TAKE HORSE Too MUcH WATER BEFOK! Across. 1. Just. 5. Greek letter. 10. Pleased. 14. Egyptian singing girl. 15. Upper part of hip bone. 16. A flower. 17. Town in California. 18. Scorch. 19. Melody. 20. Parisian shop girl. . Pertaining to a ray. . Fabled demon. . Unbleached. . Transparent membrane of eyeball. . Place for burning refuse. . Girl's name. . Strictness . Heating apparatus. . English nobleman, 39. An ogee molding. . Wife of Geraint. . On the watch . Pungus used for flavoring. . Collection of facts. ‘The Saviour. Fertilizing powder of a plant. Female servant. Close with wax. e pZ>) ZOWLZ D) . Sharp, plercing sound. 56. A man eater. . Imaginative writer. . Lifeless. . Wan. . Opposite to aweather. 5. Point of compass. . Hautboy. . Anarchists. . Corpulent . Affirmative votes. Down. . A long, sharp teoth. . Wing-shaped. . Kafir warrior of South Africa. . A motive, . Absent-minded. . Select body. . Slender string. . Harbor boat. . To punish. . Change by degrees. . Asiatic lemur. . A continent. . Apportion. . River in Germany. GET HIM RERDY For THE 2 [ R RSV s PUDDINHEAD AINT GONNA GET THE PONYLCART FOR H\S Bv GENe ByRNes A Tough Break. . Weapons, . Fault. . A tree. . Rudimentary seed. 8. Scraped together. . Complexion. . Pertaining to tone. . Sheeplike. . Fortification. . Gambled. . Hermits. . Greek drug supposed to drown sor Tow. . Small river duck. . Forsaken. . Italian city. . Native pheasant of Australia. . Two-wheeled vehicles. . Box with fists, . Hollow place, . Musical pipe. . Essential part. . An infant. . A plant, Dregs. The Old and the New. CARE OF CE- IT's NoT €00D FOR HiM ! CAUSE RIS POP LOST A LOTTA MONEY IN WALL STREET! DID HE LOSE A LOTTA MONEY IN WALL STREET ? TH' DELAY. STRAINER SO AW,SHUCI(S'. Y MULEY BATES AN WAS AHELPIN YME MAKE TH' /PIFFLE - Heek! Wi DONT HURT NOTHIN ..WE USED WEIHAD TO USE