Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1931, Page 20

LETTER-OUT By Charles H. Joseph id be no letter-out. TRESTLE | Letter-out and without it there coul Letter-out and you'll find’ them in every home. MOTORS Letter-out and it is what happens to the villain. PLEASURE Letter-out and you are reminded of & gentleman named Cassius. ANGEL Tetter-out and its London for top! 5 STYMIE o Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word called for in the last column. Print the omitted letter in center column opposite word you have removed it from. If you have “lettered-out” correctly it will spell the lure for thousands of ambitious young women. Answer to Yesterday's LETTER-OUT. V Letter-out and it's an wncient people. , l ISRAEL | E I Letter-out and every business man | N I Letter-out and you need it in the produce business CRATE swears at them. DIALS (Copyrignt, 1931 MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. Letter-out and that's the way the tough guy taiks shout the “glim.” DOUSE ROUSED Letter-oyt and in Congress they always do that in debate. RESUME MEASURE REVISAL LADIES TRANCE HOLLYWOOD, January 31 (N.AN.A). reached the throwing-away stage. He —The first silent picture to be shown |leaps from the car just in time to beat after two years of talk, Charlie Chap-|a tramp to the smoking cigar butt, and, lin's “City Streets,” is one of the finest | triumphantly smoking, drives off jerkily pieces of work this comedian has ever [ but with great grandeur. done and one of the best evening’s en- " tertainments you could imagine. The nervousness and apprehensiveness A group of some 50 pcrsons who pre- | with which other producers have awaited viewed the picture Thursday evening the release of this picture are unwar- sat rigid for the first few momenis.|ranted. They have nothing to fear and ‘waiting for the absence of talk to shock | no changes to make, unless one of them them. After a bit they relaxed and sat|has another Charles Chaplin up his back to laugh and cry with the funny |sleeve. Without doubt some of them little man who has brought pantomime!will attempt short comedy reels in- 10 its highest art. Talk was forgotwn,‘{ormed with music and sound effects, The years of dialogue might never have | but there is not another player with been. As the reels unfurled one realized | sufficient economy of gesture and mag- that here is & medium which Chaplin | ne'ism of spirit to put pantomime over fills to highest perfection, and he is a ‘ in this guise. thoroughgoing artist in recognizing that| Charles Chaplin has made a univer- fact and adhering to his medium. | zal film for all peoples and all ages. It “City Streets” is a bit different from | will.bring the children bacz into the any other Chaplin film I have ever| theater, for while the deeper irony of seen. There is more satire in it and| "City Streets” will be lost on all but greater depth of subtlety than his pre- | the perspicacious, the riotous comedy vious pictures have shown. This was| is apparent for the entire human range. to be expected, for the Chaplin char-| At the film's conclusion a salvo of ap- acterization has been deepening through | plause broke forth. the years. | ginhme ve;‘y back of the vast theater, S | which was thrown open last night to the Talkies are satirized in the opening | public for the formal premiere of “City reel of “City Stree's.” The picture, in- | Streets,” sat a smartly dressed man with formed with music and sound eflects!,mn_gmy hair, nervously mopping his throughout, opens with the unveiling of | brow—Charlie ' Chaplin, king of pan- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO and stare. A cloud, a tree, o bird’s free Flight There's Joy in every simple “sight. e Pop MOMAND Evidently Bambino > LEAPIN wzaros '\ | ALL TR’ CARS GONE SLI\CK &S & WHISTLE - MUST HAVE BeeN SToLEN ! AND I WON'T GWE You A CENT MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS. M’ g5 [ BUO Fisusr Off on the Gypsy Trail. D. C, SATURDAY MAKE A SAP OUT oF B EDDIE PEEKED || BowERS!! ROOF - PooF FoR KTTY KIPFER ~ You DRAPES AND SAW THE BEWHISKERE D GENTLEHAN GENTLY PATTING KITTY WIPPER'S NES, KNOW, ANNIE - THEY WERE ALL TAKEN DOWN TOWN NESTERDAN - AND T WeN'T GIVE You MoRe THAN E€IGHTY- FWE PUNCHES ON THE NOSE gyeight 191 by W € Piaber ) Orem Bein Wights Rusarved_ Trade Mk JANUARY 31, FROM NEW ORLEANS TO MONTREAL! 1931, YES, Bino MY BOY, 1T HAD GREAT PLANS FOR YOU! A FRENCH NURSE, A YACHT, A WORLD TOUR, A COLLEGE EDLC HORSES, MOTOR CARS, AwWD SOME DAy You WERE T STEP IN AND RUN (R THE Bis kipPER BUT (TS ALL OFF Now, BING! No BREAST OF GUINEA HEN OR CaviaR! You'lL HAVE T STICK TO THE SwiM MILK AN’ cm«zs, AND FORGET TH LiMouSINE ! KITTY KIPPER Can KEEP HER MILLIONS = WE DONT WANT ‘em ! STOLEN? ER- WELL, NOT EXACTLN - STORN- VLl EXPLAW \T ALL TO NOUu U8 pui omer NOU MARK MY WORDS SANDN - THINGS ARE GETTIN' WORSE AND _ |\ SE. AND WORSE 1\ = == DADDN" ACTS SORTA STUNNED - NOT LIKE HIMSELF AT ALL - HE JUST S\'TS AND LOOKS AT NOTHIN' = SOMETHNGS \ GOTTYA BE DONE ~ 3 fi T DIDNT_DISCOVE was A GYP cAB UNTIL WE GoT PAST CHICAGO! a big public monument. The mayor of | to b i i i the city, the somewhat cessicated T e el who unveils the statue and the micro-| 1t is the scene where the funny little phone announcer are the only voices|man, who has through a fluke managed one hears in the entire picture, but they | to get sufficient money to secure mei- are meaningless sound only—a slap not| ca] treatment and subsequent sight for only at talkies in particular but at pub- | a jit'le blind flower seller in the streets lic speeches in general, of which we|of a big city, emerges from jail to acci- usually get merely an unintelligible | dentally run upon his handiwork. Choctaw. 2 The girl, charmingly played by Vir- The social system is magnificently | ginia Cherrill, is beautiful, with the satirized in the person of an eccentric| added awareness which sight brings. millionaire, played by Harry Mycrs, Who | She sees some newsboys deviling a weird knows the funny little man with the|little figure. “Oh, see that funny little cane and trick derby only when he is n!” she cries to her grandmother. drunk, and who haughtily orders the| At almost the same moment the “funny butler to throw Chaplin out of the house | little man” recognizes her. She has when he sobers up. This gag goes on | never known who her benefactor was, BUT THEY CAN'T KEEP A COOD MAN Dowe ! TLL START MY OWN FILM . COMPANY PND MAKE MYSELF THE STHR: W THE GUYS WHO TURNED Do THET THERE'S ONE FELLOW IN THIS TOWN THAT KKNowWs TRLENT WHEN HE SEES IT- AND THAT FEWOW WILL BE MYSELF ! WE'LL START "BLACKOUT® IN ANOTHER RACE TOMORROW - 1 NEED FIFTY THOUSAND BUCKs To FLORT THis COMPANY AND TM JusT 4>3¢4,ooo.°g" AWAY FROM T Now - ' WANNA BE A MOVE STAR BAH® WHAT ooD)llf & 2 RosATIcALLY SPERKING, g IS MONEY IF R NO ONE WILL GIVE ME A TUMBLE . l N You CAN TELL THAT THE HIR T S REHUZE N HOLLYWO00D |5 FREE THE ME Dov! EMBHON THEV'VE BEEN GNING 1T To ME LATELY ! WELL, WINDY = Y'MUSTR WON LOTS OF COIN ON OUR HORSE THURSDAY \F Y'HAD $ 8500 22 oN “ BLACKOUT'S" Nose! its_priceless humor. | 2;25§m°~4x‘¥emc@:ugeh':mclgnxq:é? ' “The S e e e A L T Bumor 1 played along the shadow line | nis pascamors > 0L o DM & rose for of pathos, but only Charles Chaplin| When he goes to take it her hand en- could do this story lnq P\lt over the|counters his. She has lived by touch | - - [ of their fingers she knows him. *You?" ;am:;;‘ xh}’,“hé%. sal:mca}h mgmtr;,';u z:m He nods, a_world of joy and pathos in: nmmc - up g;\‘ om %-smwdnls\ !s, his eyes. Tears of gratitude and stark i‘n - ’;:'amsmrol) fl:mkem gm";l:‘?y mmu;:pmmmem. stream down her cheeks pedestrian whose cigar has just about | " ¥ aper Alliance.) Daily Cross-Word Puzzle Chum: collog. . Bowl or chalice. Totto: poet. . Hebrew healer. . Driven out by force of reiteration. 53. Poem . Hindu widows’ sacrifices. . To antedate. | Disproves. Narrates. Baffling Adversaries. . Latin household gods. A limb. A windflower. Skill. ‘Turkish officers . Force air violently through nostrils. | A large knife: obs. | Canvas_ shelters. | Small bed. Soldiers serving on warships. . A stanza of eight lines. . Manifest. 60. Mysteries. the | 61. Leaves. Down, Church dignitary. Revokes at cards, 3. Graceful. Embankment 5. Sister of Caesar. Years between 12 and 20. . Consistent substances. . Statement. . Incident. . Sanctuary: arch. . United States of America: abbr. . Gigantic, . Highest mountain. Six-line stanzas. . Temper. s to stimuli . Staggered. Reappraised. 3. Sinned. A nsh. . To breathe noisily in sleep. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE 3 lened. . Floating aloft. . Withered. . Dreads. . Despises. . Thin, hard coatings. 7. Accost. . Permission. . Cancel. . Trickle. . High hill. 7. Femigine name. OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND HE wanTs TO Bov's JusT BE A PHWYSICIAN- WHERE D BE A GOoD HOW You CouLD GET THIN WITH THREE LIL EXERCISES A DAY! Nothing Like Exercise. [ SLHUNTLEY ‘A Forced PLACE TO SEND WHAT KINBA EXERCISES? o BEAT T DRUM SLOWLY Ax/ PLAY T FIFE LOWLY. . PLAY T “DEAD MaRcH” AS VUM TOTE Mg ALONG, 7o 00 1S NECK AND TALK ABOUT LITERA} § THERE ! SEE WHAT “OuR TALKING DID! AS FAR AS I'M COMNCERAED, A~ Tsi-Tsk' THE Doc 1S GETTING ABSEAT-MINDED- HE WAS JusT GOWG TO SUGGEST A GOOD PLACE WHEA HE HAD THREE TIMES A DAY YA JUS PUSH Y'SELF AWAY FROM THE COMIN' DOWN ANNWAY P WASN'T 17