Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1931, Page 26

BEDTIME ST Whitey Gets a Meal. Pespistence neer admits defeat; t is impossible to beat. —Whitey the Snowy Owl. - Tt was several days since Whitey the . Bnowy Owl had eaten. The big Owls are like that; they can and do go sev- eral days without eating, especially after a full meal. But when they have facted in this way they become very hungry indeed. It was just so with Whitey. He had vainly tried to catch Jumper the Hare, and just missing him m all the hungrier. af:ty cf a bramble-tangle, sugg>s Whitay g0 over to Faimer Erown's barn an watch for rats he decided that he should “You won't have anything to fear BY THORNTON W BURGESS ORIES that Robber the Rat and his relatives are Even to hrg families. If I sit here 1ool at you much longer my stomach certainly will ‘turn right over from hunger. Won't you change your mind and come out here in the op>n?" quNo, thank you replled Jumper. I'm very comfortable right here. I al- ways did like a good ible-tangle, especially when certain hungry ’olk are about. I wish you luck. I dont lik> Rats.” o .:Q’?Lx?uw'" 're%xzd mwmuy. and pre: great white ted with brown, he flew off in file“dl‘rzco\":lun of Farmer Brown's. With a little sigh o'l hrlellef Jumper watched him out of sight. Whitey crossed the Old Orchard and alighted on the roof of the barn. ' He had be:n there during his previous visit o he felt quit> at home. It was just | the hour between daylight and dark. Farm:r Brown's boy coming out to the barn did not see itey, but Whitey E him, for Whitey is: blessed with ey2s that can see well when your eyes and mine can see very littl> and that only dimly. Farmer Brown's boy went into the barn and ‘Whitey could hzar him talking to the cows and horses as he fod them and milked the former. From where h2 sat Whitey could look down in the hen-yard. It was there that he had caught Rats during his previdus visit, and it was there that he hoped to catch more. He couldn’t know that Farmer Brown's boy had made the hen-house practically ratproof so Rob- b°r the Rat and his friends had given up trylng to get in there. Farmer Brown'’s boy finished his chores’and re- turned to the house. The moon came up. Disappointment took possession of Whit2y: not one Rat had he szen. Still h> would not give up. Long ago he had learned that patience and persistence arz sure to be rewarded in the long run. However, he did change his position. He moved along to th® other end of CROSSED THE OLD OR- | the barn where he could loox down in 'HARD AND ALIGHIED CN THE F OF THE BARN. ow do you know?"” snapp:d Whitey. ~Because no one has anycning to fear from them,” replied Jumper. never shoot at any of us with a terrible the barn-yard on one side and toward Farmer Brown’s house on the other. He | sat facing the barn-yard. At the faint- t sound from the farm house he ould snap his head around and stare in thet direction. His body moved not at all. He simply twisted his head “They |around so as to stare over his back. He looked as if his head had b2en put on the wrong way around. He found it Whitey nodded. “It was that Way |very handy to be able to turn his head when I was down here a couple of | jike that. Wint:rs ago, but 1 was afraid it might | have changed,” said he. see of these two-legged creatures, the For a while nothing happéned. Then “The more I|he saw something moving in the barn- vard. A Rat had run from under the Jess I trust them.” |barn and dicappeared under a great “You can trust Farmer Brown and |strawstack. Whitey set himself for Farmer Brown's boy,” repli:d Jumper. | quick work. Another Rat started across. “yes, sir, you can trust them. Tney | H> never reached the strawstack. Later haven't changed.” another tried it with the same result. “This is good news and I'm glad t0 | After the third one, Whitey felt so much hear it,” said Whitey. “Now I can g0 over there and watch for Rats with al eace mind. for:. It is a good thing for some of us | that he dec'ded to take a nap. tail of the Rat still hung from his T've caught Rats there be- | pj), (Copyright, 1931.) MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE. BY MOLLIE MERRICE. HOLLYWOOD, January 12 (N.A.N.A,).Ith! finished product than he does for | his own self-glorification. And this is —A man may act and direct the ple- | o) Py, poeneq with Lowell Sherman. ture at the same time and make & SUC- | The king, as cess of it. portrayed by him, is only in the picture for such time as the Lowell Sherman proved this in his | perfect exposition of the story demands, first venture in the double field, a pic- | Dot one second more. fure called “The Reyal Bed” which | Casting has become a matter of proves to be a deligh:ful comedy, subtly | great importance since the advent of done, and so ente:taining thmulhwt\um. and . the meticulous -director that it would seem to be s2ven minutes Jong instead of seven reels. At the time Lowell Sherman essayed .to direct his own picture a few other lads were doing the same thing. I un- derstand these ventures, among them Novarro's version in Spanish of “Flame of the Flesh,” turned out very successfully. But Louis Wolheim, who directed one picture in which he ap- , says “Never again!” in a heart- | felt manner. . When an actor can direct his pic- . ture and not stand accused by critics and the cast of “hogging the camera,” as they call it in Hollywood, he is encugh of an artist to care more for | knows that time and care given to this detail mean more to him in the product than anything else. When Lowell Sherman chose Mary Astor for the royal princess he made a good decision. This 1, more than any one else in the colony, has been distinguished for steady ess in the talkie field. Her reading of the Princess Anne's lines was amazing in its spontanei'y and naturalness. She gave a spirited performance and a sat- isfying one. 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