Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1931, Page 38

BEDTIME STORIES When Lemmings Move. Impulse is sometimes of such strength *Twill Dush You on to any lens —Old Mother Nature. Jumper the Hare was learning much. Yes, sir, he was learning much. For one thing he was learning how little one who never travels really knows. Jumper, you know, lives in the Green Forest, and in a comparatively small ¢ of that. There is little he doesn't now so far as his neighbors and their ways are concerned, but his knowledge of those who live outside his neighbor- hood is_limited, indeed. Whitey the Snowy Owl, sitting on a stump just outside the bramble-tangle in vhich By Thornton W. Burgess. 'You should see the Lemming folk move, they all go together.” “Do you mean like a flock of birds going south?” inquired Jumper. “That's it,” replied Whitey. “That's the idea. The biggest flock of birds you ever have seen would be nothing to the number of Lemmings I have seen | moving at one time.” Jumper locked as if he doubted this. “I've seen so many birds together that ;hey were like a cloud in the sky,” said e. “And I have seen so many of the Lemming folk together that they were like a brown covering on the earth as ihr‘ as I could see in any direction,” retorted Whitey.: “Where they had pass- ed the ground looked as if the red terr-r had passed over it.” By red ter- rer he meant fire. Jumper looked puzzled. He was puz- zle '“Shat made it look that way?” “They did,” replied Whitey. “They | lezt it bare of every green thing. There were no trees or bushes in those places, and all ground growing plants were eaten, even the mosses.” Jumper thought this over for a few minutes. “What did they want to move for?” he_finally asked. “That I don't know,” replied Whitey. “I suppose they were getting so nu- merous that they were afraid there would not be food enough for all in the place where they were living, so decided to move to another part of the country. Anyway, nothing could stop them, once they had started.” “I guess a river or a lake would stop Wlam “WHAT DO YOU MFAN MOV- | ING?” DEMANDED JUMPER, Jumper had found safety s telling him about the Lemming folk who live in the Far North, and of whom Danny Meadow Mouse is a cousin | “You ought to see those Lemming folk when they move,” said Whitey, and sighed in Owl fashion. “What do you mean by move?” de- manded Jumper. “If “they havn't wings they can't fly, o they must move like the rest of us, either by walking, | Tunning or jumping, and there is noth- | ing unusual in any of these ways of moving.” “That isn't what I mean at all,” re- torted Whitey. “What I mean you should see them when they move from one part of the country to another. My, my, that is a sight! Yes, sir, that | is a sight! None of us go hungry then. MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD. January 9 (N.AN.A). «—Just as the body of Art Acord, one- time cowboy idol of the screen, was being lowered into a nameless grave in potter's field at Mexico a wire from Hiram Johnson, California _Senator, halted proceedings dramatically Irving Thalberg, Abraham Lehr and & group of other motion picture men had claimed the body for burial here. The American Ccnsul at Juarez ar- ranged details. | Which goes to prove that movie men aren't so thoughtless as cne would think. But they are busy and likely to Jet such things slip until brought to their attention. Speaking of movie men, the night conferences of one of the large studios, famed for its burning of early morning ofl. lock more like Western comedies these nights than executive meetings. When ths great assemble about the | council table they each and every one reach into the back pocket and pull out the good old six-shooter—not that argu- ments wax so hot about the table These lads are carrying the guns for protection on the way home. There has been a merry little game ©of jump on the running board going on, | with studio police keeping a sharp look- out for suspicious characters hanging about the lot gates late at night. Since motion picture people are the | chief sufferers from this type of local | Winter sport, they're taking no chances | when they work on lots given to mid- night conferences. | | When I saw “The Man in Posses- sion” in New York I couldn't get Bob them quickly enough,” said Jumper, with a know-it-all air “And I guess your guess is no good,” retorted Whitey. “Why isn't it good?” demanded Jumper. “Because with my own eyes I have seen the Lemming folk cross a river and cross a lake,” was Whitey's prompt retort “All of them?” asked Jumper, “Not all,” replied Whitey. “Many, very many were drowned, but that Jumper. You really should. You, see, | THE EVENING didn't stop those behind. Once they have made up their minds to move nothing can stop those Lemming folk from going ahead. It is a time of feast- ing for those who like a Lemming din- ner. Yes, sir, it is a time of feasting. Foxes and Owls and Hawks and Wolves and others come from long distances to the feast, but those Lemmings that escape keep right on. just the same. It is a sight. Yes, sir, it is a sight.” (Copyright. 1931.) MERRICK. Montgomery out of my mind. But I had been told thet the picture was bought for Billy Haines. Now I understand Montgomery is go- ing to play in this most delightful com- edy, which should be one of the laugh- ingest bits cf celluloid history made in the studios this year. And it's going to be a good year for leughs. We'll nced ‘em before Winter is over. Here's one to begin with: A writer was hirei at Metro studio. It's a vast place, where authors frequently become lcst for months at a time. There are vagu> rumors floating that a couple of lost authors have never been found. The newcomer was told “You are to take half of So-and-So’s office. It's on stage three.” 5 He wandered about the lot trying to find So-and-So. “Oh, yes,” said one depariment of which he inquired; “oh, yes—let's see, he did work here. That’s right! Oh, | yes, come to think of it, he had an office on stage three. Go right over there!” The newcomer went. He finally found stage three—and found a little cubby- hele which) went uncer the name of “office.” In it was a dusty desk. A diligent spider was lacing one leg of the desk to a near-by beam with dusky &m:mnt On the desk lay an open “How to Play Solitaire.” Moss Hart and George Kauffmann didn’t top that one in “Omce in a Lifetime.” (Copyright, 1931, by North Ameiican News- | paper Alliance.) ot Day Makes Joff a ey KEN KLING His First Day in Hollywood! STAR, WASHINGTON, POOR LITTLE BAMBINOG! By Pop Momano What's the Idea, Eddie? 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