Show I I I I I I I I II MY B IRViN RVIN FAVORITE s. s STORIES oBB Spoken From the Heart Out Outi i most of ot the readers ar ans an anI familiar with the story of th the I negro who w worked as an extra at one one of ot the Hollywood studios and who inthe In hi the filming of a scene purporting to show nn fin African Jungle was called coiled upon to enter a camouflaged cage con con- taming a performing lion Hon The prospect prospect pros pros- did not appeal to the candidate He Ue demurred at It the matter with your said the assistant director That lions lion's not going to hurt you That lion was brought up on milk So I 1 up on milk said the unhappy darky but I 1 eats meat beat once In awhile now Of somewhat more recent vintage Is la a tale that I 1 heard beard only the other day The man who told it to me said tt It t really happened At one of ot the big plants they were making a movie dealing with scriptural scriptural scrip scrip- tural times One scene showed the court of ot a savage potentate For the therole therole therole role of ot the monarch a bu huge e coal coal- black American Afro-American was selected De He made his entrance scantily garbed In barbaric trappings trapping For added realism It it was decreed that over his shoulders shoulders shoulders ders should be draped a live leopard Just before the animal was brought out of bl lila his cage her trainer gave her ber hera bera a shot of morphine to keep her docile and quiet She was a Ii lady A small negro newly arrived In California from Texas was Tras detailed to accompany the giant on his triumphant triumphant tri trl- entry and to fan him with a huge ostrich plume fan ton The costume of this supernumerary consisted of a clout breech-clout and an ankle bracelet lie He took himself and his role very seriously which of course was exactly ex ex- artly what the director desired In advance he was warned that no matter matter mat mot ter what happened he must continue to fan the savage king until ordered I to leave off ort A slip on his bis part might ruin the whole film Midway of the scene the leopard leopar suddenly yoke Roke up Presumably the tho dope was dying out tn to the tile spotted beast She emitted a snarl and began to wiggle off olt her perch upon the big black block mans man's shoulders With one band hand he grabbed her bel by the neck and held the spitting squealing creature at arms arm's length lenth There was an Instantaneous scat scat- The director the camera cameramen cameramen men and the supporting members of the cast cost beat bent It for places of ot safety Only the little dark darky held beld his ground Mindful of his Instructions he con con- coq coq- tinned the fanning operation but the fan tan trembled and quivered ered In his grip and his rolling roiling e eyes eyes' es were on the struggling leopard and out of the lie corner of ot his with nil all the ferver fewer of which he was capable he entreated the big negro over and over again n n these words Dont cast her aside I Tha's Thas nil all I J jou dont don't don't dont cast cost her aside 1 I e e e Not So Poor as He Might Appear to Be TilE TIIE native nathe slow head hend headway way with a hoe boe against the weeds and sassafras sprouts which covered the slope with their scrubby growth Behind him rose rOO a 11 knobby IJ field ld with deep furrows In It where the rains had washed out gully In the thin clay Further on a rotting rail roll fence ran in crazy across the brow brO of the eminence and on all nil sides the clearing was enveloped by the bleak and stricken poverty-stricken landscape A northern tourist who was vas making a detour through the tine foothills halted his car and hailed the Industrious worker My ly friend ho he said sold you yon look like a the live chap chop and a born hustler bustier Well Veil said old the native I 1 aim to keep busy lie He laid down his hoe and ond advanced to the edge of the road what I said to myself as soon as os 1 I saw V you Im I'm wondering why youre you're content to slave your life out In this Go GC Gosh forsaken forsaken cI l country 1 I never saw such poor looking soil In to toniy my life lite Why dont don't you pull up stakes and move up Into Ohio where I live The Tho resident re hIs hU head You nu see stranger he lie answered Tie Ive e always lived around her and 1 l guess Ill I'll stray Sly a 8 v Y bile longer Well said the tourist every ery man manto manto to his Ills oct own n ranC fancy and I suppose suppo e a n fellow might In time get attached even evento evento evento to such sull n 11 spot as us this But Hut what can con you expect to gain by staying stains on on You ou II ore re hound to get et poorer und Lad poorer poor poor- poorer er all the time Mister said the Ibe hillsman Im a n blamed bight Ihl better betler off oft than Ihan what whitt you seem em to think Why Iy I dont don't own nary an acre of this Hits here land I II I I EV by OY the thu h Inc toc |