-Sabahabel bolt adabetobs fuuludadel STAR DUST Movie + Radio * %%%By VIRGINIA VALE xk* OWADAYS 20 2020 20 2 0 2 2 2 4 22050 30 5 5 2 4 there is lowed to fly. when a man {is commuting Hollywood to New York and from they take trains, men wanted to get from New York to Hollywood In a hurry, and planned to fly; they had done it so often that it down the street; they knew all too well that flying was no more danger- tation. But at the last minute some body got wind of their plans. The resulting argument was hot and heavy ~—but In the end they went by train, One of them didn't really object, however, He was Howard Dietz, chief of publicity and advertising. “That's all right with me" he re marked. “I'll win a thousand dollars at bridge on the way out.” ef There's just no stopping them—I mean these girls who are as deter mined now not to be blonde as they once were to be as blonde as possible, Jean Harlow started It, of course, by turning “brownette,” and now we have Carole Lom- bard, Alice Faye and ] inging her example, it will help them to Joan Bennett Eet more serious roles —quite forgetting that Ann Harding, who Is naturally so blonde, has been doing pretty well with serious roles for a long, long time mle On the other hand, Marion Talley (ex opera star and farmer, now work. ing hard in pictures) has turned blonde for her first screen appearance If you have seen her, or seen photo. graphs of her in the old days, you're going to be surprised at her appear. ance; she has lost a lot of weight, and it is a big improvement. — cn Those Major Bowes amateur stage units have been so successful that Bob (“Believe It Or Not") Ripley is going to have some of his own: the first will begin its tour somewhere in New Eng- land the last of April. It will prob. ably Include these acts: Littie Jeanie, a thirty-pound midget; Grace Mur- phy's quintuplets, five ballet dances averaging three hundred pounds each: a concert pianist who plays—and well —with his elbows: Johan Tilo and his talking bird; and a man who makes music with leaves, lob himself, en. countered at a party after the opening of Ringling’s circus, was trying to curb a strong desire to go out with them himself, ll in Frank Parker, who bobs up on so many radio programs, is going to make another picture; his first, you'll re. call, was “Sweet Surrender.” He's been on the stage, so he's prepared for a movie career, Speaking of his stage career, the other day Fifii D'Orsay came to a re- hearsal of her radio show with a pic. ture of the cast of “Greenwich Village Follies of 1925" Willie Howard glanced at it, then at Parker, and said, “Frank, there's a fellow in this piciure who looks exactly like you” “Looks like me?” retorted Frank “It is me. | was a chorus boy.” a T wish you could meet Bette Davis, She's an overwhelming young per son, because she's so devastatingly frank. No matter what youn ask her she'll answer It, and Intelligently too— with no regard for whether the movie moguls will like what she says or not. Nowa some Interviewers use rather brutal tactics. That doesn't work with Bette Davis: she doesn't get angry, she just tells the truth, with a pleasant smile, “How do you get along with your husband?" someone asked her recently, “There are reports that you've sep arated.” “Oh, we fight," she replied. “It's my fault; sometimes | simply have to — at doesn’t want to be tied down to one com. « « « Fredric March felt the same way; for as a [ree lance was “Mary of Scotland” is going to give us “Beau Geste” again, in color ihis time, with Gary Cooper in the leading role . . . “A Message to Garcia” is a fine picture . . . Jane Withers does fine work in “Gentle Julia” . . . Shirley Temple got another raise the other day . . . Practically all the movie companies are trying to sign up Charles Boyer, who's already under contract . . You'll see him before long in “The Gar den of Allah” . . . And in color . .. Mar. garet Sullavan’s broken arm is up two pictures . . . Myma Loy be teamed with Warner Baxter in “To Mary, With Love”; remember them in "Broad. Bir? Say © Western Newspaper Union, Waiting for Nightfall Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C-~WNU Service, HE evening alr of early spring in the Everglades of southern Florida is soft and mild. Dell cate scents from blossoms come with the breeze, together with the voices of myriad frogs In incessant but attractive chorus from the marshes, Suddenly, from the moss festooned live oaks In this peaceful background, comes an outburst of de monlacal laughter, guttural in sound and startling in its abruptness. Playing the beam of light from an electric torch through the branches, you discover presently two glowing #pots of ruby red, reflections from a pair of eyes. As your own eyes ad Just themselves to the feeble illumi shadowy form of a great barred owl The hubbub stops immediately, for the bird is puzzled by the spot of light: but as you continue along the trall the owl, now behind you, utters a loud, prolonged whoo-00-00-aw that resounds eerily among the trees. Until day- break you hear at Intervals the wild ululation of its calls filling the dark- ened woodland. The voices of owls are more fa. miliar than their persons. as most of them are active principally at night, and without special search the birds themselves are difficult to see. Their presence, unseen but constantly evil dent, has caused imagination to play about them until In practically every country In the world there have grown up fables and superstitions regarding owls, The little ow! of Europe, about as | large as the American screech owl without the ear tufts of that species has long been an emblem of wisdom. | and In early years was accepted as a | special ward of Pallas Atheue of the Greeks. He Only Looks Wise. The vogue of the ow! as an emblem of wisdom Is not due to any special intelligence of the bird, but to the con. formation of the head, with the two eyes so placed that they look directly ahead like those of man. As the companion of night-fiving witches, or as one of the ingredients in the brews concocted by these tron. ble-makers, the owl developed a black and unsavory reputation, attested by many references to its evil omen in Shakespeare and other writers Among American Indians, owls though feared at times, were In bet ter repute and were the basis of vari- ous lively legends. Zuni tales include stories of one called “gray ow!” that lived In a house as a man does. The Pima Indians held that at death the human spirit passed into the body of an owl and, to assist in this trans migration, they gave owl feathers, kept for the purpose in a special box, to a dying person. Among the Plains Indians, the Ari. kara included an owl group as one of their eight mystic societies, and in the sacred rites of this body they used the stuffed skin of an owl! with disks of cunningly fitted buffalo horn for eyes, Owls are found throughout the world from the Arctic regions through the continents and to remote Islands in the sea. More than 300 kinds are known. ranging In size from the tiny elf owls, no larger than sparrows, to the power. ful horned owls and eagle owls, which are two feet or more in length. Scientifically, all owls are included in one order, the Strigiformes, in which two families are recognized, one for the barn owls (Tytonidae) and the other (Strigidae) for all other species, Regardless of their size, ow!s are instantly Identified by their broad about the eyes, coupled with curved beaks and claws, and sharp, long, rela. tives are the whippoorwills, night Formerly it was thought that owls these two groups differ radically in structure, The resemblances are su perticial and are due to the form of gone similar development from seek. ing the same kinds of foods. Other Birds Dislike Them. Most owls are nocturnal and by day sleep in eaves, hollow trees, tangles of leaves, or whatever may offer pro tection. When they are found by oth. er birds, there Is high excitement, jays, cardinals, and the like gathering to scold and chatter at these enemies of the night. Crows are more sggres sive and often drive the largest owls to seek more secure cover where they may avold their cawing black tor mentors, The homes of owis are located In bollows of trees, caverns Im rocks, or and a Meal of Mice, or other birds. Often no nesting ma. terial of any kind Is used. The eggs are white, occasionally tinted with buff or pale blue, but without mark- Ings, and are peculiar in being usy- ally elliptical or nearly round. young are covered with white down and remain In the nest under care of the parents for a considerable time, In defense of their young, owls are often aggressive and swoop at any and all who chance to pass, sometimes with startling effect when the attack Is delivered without warning. A sclen- tist climbing to the nest of a great horned owl! once was struck sav- agely In the back by one of the par. ents that the strong talons of the bird drew blood through the heavy clothing he wore, 50 While walking at dusk near a wood land eamp In eastern Kansas, the scientist was startled by something that, without warning, struck his bare head. he aggressor was a little screech owl with a family of young nearby. At other times he has had owls knock off his hat, assisted no doubt by his Involuntary flinching as the bird brushed past. In Puerto Rico, country people inform you gravely that a native ow! steals the hats of per. sons who walk the trails at night and carry them off to use them for nests, a superstition probably based on at- tacks such as those described. Their Plumage Is Soft. soft fluffy have long, All posed owls of plumage com feathers. The flight the birds as If they move without were shadows In the lower leg, or tarsus, and of the toes, bare In are covered with feath ers, thesa being reduced or absent only In 8 few species that inhabit warm countries, The plumage colors run usually to gray, brown, and buff, with lighter markings of buff and gray. White and hlack are extensive In some, but brighter colors are rare or ahsent, Some of the gmaller owls have rounded markings on the back of the head, resembling eves In South Amer. ica the country people tell you these birds have four eyes. They can see behind as well as ahead The eyes of owls are fixed so Im movably in the head, where both are directed forward, that the bird must change the position of the head to alter its line of vision, Though the majority of owls remain hidden in shaded, secluded places by day. there are a few that are abroad by day or by night indifferently. This Is true of the snowy owl, which lives in summer through the long Arctic day, and of the borrowing owls of open country in the new world, The latter delights in resting In the sun, and In broad daylight detects and watches hawks and other birds flying at such great heights that one can barely see them, What They Eat. live mostly on animal food which is captured alive, except that occasionally they feed upon rabbits freshly killed by automobiles along our highways, or upon other carcasses, Mice, rats, and other small mammals in sound, npper surfaces most birds, Owls NOT SO SERIOUS “And It 18 estimated.” concluded the eclentist, “that at the present rate the heat of the sun will be exhausted In end of which time this planet will be a will be extinet.” A small, worried-looking man at the back of the hall rose to his feet. “How long did you say It would be before this terrible calamity occurs?” he inquired, “About 70,000,000 years.” replied the leggurer, “Thank heaven!” sald the worried one, resuming his seat, “I thought you sald 7,000,000 1 IN ANTARCTICA “How about this daylight saving scheme-—what shall we do about It?” “Set the clock ahead about s fort- i night.” That Was Why The examiners were checking the students’ papers, “Can't «wt this youth pass,” sald one, handing his colleague a paper. “He can't spell properly.” “What's he done wrong?” other, “He spells ‘proceed’ ‘e,’ said the first, “Where's he come from? league asked, “Ceylon,” came the reply. "Hm." smiled the second, “that ace counts for the spelling He from the land of the Cingalese.,"—An- swers Magazine, Cold Storage A man saw a message and an ad dress on an egg he got for breakfast The message read: “This egg was packed by a girl thousands of miles from the United States. She is supposed to be the prettiest girl In this neighborhood, and Is prepared to marry the man who eats this egz” The man cabled her: pou.” The girl's reply read: *I am fiat. tered by your proposal, but I am now married and have three children” up asked the with only one his cal comes “I'l marry Boyhood Recollection “Would you not like to be a bare. foot boy again down on the #erm?” sald the romantic lady. “No,” snswered Senator Sorghum. “It sounds peaceful enough, but in this life you can never escape some kind of hostilities. Even when 1 was trudging over the meadow to call the cattle, some big bull would frequently guinent.” WARNED ous species. and rough, horny-surfaced toes to as sist In capturing such slippery prey. ture goldfish in ornamental pools, but this Is unusual Owls, like hawks, tear thelr prey apart and swallow the pleces entire. During digestion the flesh is assimilat. ed, while bones, fur, feathers, and oth- er indigestible portions are formed In. to compact pellets, which are regur. gitated to leave the stomach empty for another meal. Such pellets seceumn- late about roosts and, through identifi. cation of the bones contained, give a valuable Index to the food of the bird concerned, The great horned owls and smowy owls are fiercely predatory, killing rab- bits, squirrels, and other creatures of good size. The former has been known to capture and eat small owls, In the Dominican Republic was seen & bur rowing owl tearing at the body of a young bird of its own kind which had been killed and thrown aside by some native, Occastonally wild mice Increase for various reasons until they form a veritable plague, Under such elrcum- stances short-eared owls gather In abundance and ald In reducing the numbers of the pests. Burrowing owls feed extensively on beetles and esther large insects, | Lit often.” i : Moving Pictures { “Putting the portraits of great mea | deserved tribute” | “Yea,” replied the impecunious per son, “but who gets to hold on to a | ook at the picture?” Accommodating Thief Friend—You say that thief was very accommodating? Merchant—Yes: he took all the money out of the cash register and rang up No Sale.~Chelsea Record. Tek! Tek! 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