Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-06-14
Montgomery Side|iehts
By Elsie White Hanes
By Elsie White Haines

All our readers know how we
love birds - we regret that we
have so little time to observe them.
Verses on note from Estelle
Garner, of Laytonsville, gave US
courage to neglect a duty for an
hour and sit and admire our family
of wrens busy rearing new fam
lily right on the porch = watch
the humming bird sip nectar from
petunia and were forced to
chase the black-capped Catbird
from our lunch, spread on table
there.
Here are the verses:
Said the robin to the sparrow,
81 should really like to know
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry sol"
Said the sparrow to the robin
Friend, l think that it must be
That they have no Heavenly Father
Such as cares for you and me-"
There are just so many wonder
full things to do in this beautiful,
progressive county of ours that a
day just never seems long enough
even though, like most newspaper
people, we make it last well over
into the night.
Slow me down, Lawd. rs a-goin'
too fast,
l can't see my brother when he's
walking past.
l miss a lot O. good things day by
day,
don't know a blessin' when it
comes nv way.
This old spiritual which Willard
Pleuthner quoted in an article in
the This Week Magazine on Sun
day, June 10, is good advice -
but we do not see how we rM1
"slow down so we live more If
one slows down at the prese,l sine
he is apt to starve to death prizes
being what they are. We GSaa' re-
the sight of a T-bone steaE
$1.24 a pound, then hurry 10 ,6s
fish counter, or buy another chick
en-.
"Have you seen John Carradine
in "The Silver Whistler" our
friends have been asking. Last
Friday we sat one seat removed
from Mr.. Carradine at the press
luncheon at MOL. Later we at
tended the play at Olney Theatre
in which he stars - and much
later we were present at a party
given by the producers, Richard
Skinner and Evelyn Freyman, to
mark the opening of their summer
play house.
At the luncheon, Mr.. Carradine
wore yellow vest and loudish
jacket - in the play he added
Stacks of white, black and yellow
in checkerboard design - so when
he came to the after-play party in
conventional summer tux we did
not Immediately recognize him.
Yes, one might say that we did in
deed see John Carradine and
real character he is!
For all its comedy and its pathos,
"The Silver Whistle" the scene of
which is laid in a church home for
the aged - emphasizes the trite
saying lone is only as old as he
feels" Carradine as a carefree
tramp, rather careless of the truth,
tried an experiment and before the
end Of the play had aged folks who
had been sitting around waiting
for death to overtake them, dane
ing and playing - 25 years young
err!
Brooke Johns, who has been
keeping very quiet lately, has
amazingly trimmed off some TWEEN
ty pounds so as he can fit himself
into TV screen come fall. He
really looks slender. With daugh-
ter, jeanne, he enjoyed the play
and party at Olney. One Of the
players, Wanda Lou, who plays the
part of the three times widowed
inmate Of the Home, looking 70:
husband number four played on
Broadway with Brooke 2G years
ago and they had not met since.
Such a talk fest as they had!
Get Rowland Waddill of Wash