Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
| 1 | | Ae RN SIDE GLANCES - -. - By George Clark | “Mother says that Joan Crawford and Connie Bennett eat spinach every day.” Says North Dakota kota, more than any other state served by the Northern Pacific, the Did Good Tax Job |demands of the taxpayers have been | ~~ pviclan effective in causing reductions in the| SALESMAN SAM E. A. McOrary, St. Paul, tax com- |Cost of government in all divisions missioner for the Northern Pacific | {0m the minor subdivisions to the railroad, presented the annual report eae of his company to J. J. Weeks, state tax poamnaicrer, cere . Cash in With a McCrary said that in North Da- Tribune Want Ad | AT THE MOVIES oa Bennett Has Fitting | Story of ‘Holy Devil’ Vehicle at Capitol) Exciting Screen Fare ‘That brilliant satirist, W. Somerset' The Royal Family of the stage is Maugham, is the author of Constance | 20W the Royal Family of the screen. 5 i pe | John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, Benentt's newest screen drama, “Our 'in their first appearance together on Betters,” RKO-Radio Picture coming the screen, prove a triumphant tomorrow to the Capitol Theatre. | triumverate in “Rasputin and the Em- ‘When he titled “Our Betters,” Maug- | Press,” superspectacle of the fall of ham had tongue in his cheek, for he | ue Somanotie, nov playing at the shows the very topmost layer of s0-|" No better vehicle could have been clety’s upper crust to be no better in! chosen than the dramatic story of manners and morals than the least! the last days of the Romanoff dynas- and the worst of us. ty, colorful as a period play yet so London and New York were shocked! modern that it is within the memory when they first witnessed this biting| of this generation. One sees Ras- satire on the stage, but after a lapse! putin in his maze of intrigues, orgies, of several years it was revived in both, hypnotic spells and duplicity, and metropolises and Ina Claire made a! while it seems inconcelvable, remem- great success of it in New York. ‘bers when these self-same things It should prove to be Constance! were the topic of the newspapers. Bennett's greatest characterization! The Barrymores bring the charac- and call forth talents that previous | ters to virtual life. John is a brilliant roles have not given her a chance to figure as the debonair Prince Chego- display. Here is an innocently ro-| qieff, Ethel Barrymore offers @ mantic girl who has sophistry forced | stirring picture of the ill-fated Em- upon her. Elther she must wear a press. The role was reality to her— Protective coat of hardness, or go| the Russian empress was her friend through life utterly crushed because | —and hence she plays it with a depth the man she marries for love has wed of understanding and knowledge that her for money. ;at once stamps thr ‘formance as Having paid for the title of Lady! a Pe oe Grayston with heartache and a mill- fon good American dollars, she de-|“Holy Devil” in makeup that seems cides to get all she can out of the op-|to be almost his reincarnation, was Lionel Barrymore, as the sinister far beyond a mere piece of acting. |, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1938 THE GUMPS—THE LOWDOWN ALL OF THEIR AFFAIRS ARE MANDLED Li BY THE LAW FIRM OF OT STOTT AND DINGLEDYNE: i HELLO— Ve oa ? WHEN OLD MAN DE STROSS KICKED OFF HE LEFT i THIS 1S ZANDER — JHE WIFE A LOT OF STOCKS AND BONDS ~ \ HEAR You'vE Seal ca) EH= THEY GET THEIR DOUGH ‘TO LIVE ON FROM THE : You'D LIKE YO KEEP HAT JOB , ey DINIDENDS— "THERE'S A CHECK DUE ‘TO BE WOULDN'T YOU @ WELL- GET THIS: MAILED OUT w LETTER a WANT gel pd ONE \ PUT IN ITS PLACE — NOW, HERE'S — f=, DOPE ® EWARE OF STOWNSEND ZANDER— aoe HE'S NOT A MAN So BE TRIFLED with, AS ONE OF HIS: LIEUTENANTS FOUND OUT, YESTERDAY— AND HELL BROOK No ALIBIS FROM ANY OF HIS HENCHMEN — ie aS wor OPERATOR WITH THE SECRET SK DETECTIVE AGENCY, | H HAS CONCEALED HIMSELF | IN THE RUMBLE SEAT OF MANBEE'S CAR AFTER A LONG FAST RIDE THE CAR be SLOWS DOWN AS - Sh | MANBEE RECOGNIZES « FRIEND. LITTLE DO THEY SUSPECT THAT THEIR WORDS ARE OVERHEARD. GASOLINE ALLEY— BUSINESS AS USUAL NOTHING NEW EXCEPT THE NAME— CONTINENTAL CORNCOB DEVELOPMENT CO. | TAKE THEIR § MONEY AT $100 A SHARE AND PAN ‘EM BACK PART OF IT IN ITS OKAY, MANBEE, BUT PLL TAKE MY PERCENTAGE WHEN Pf 1 COMES IN. YOU | MIGHT BE HARD TO FIND IN. THE DARK. OF A BIG CASH ONICEND AND YOULL ROUND UP A LOT OF NEW PROSPECTS. THEN YOU AND 1 AND THE BANKROLL, WILL DISAPPEAR BETWEEN TWO CANS — YOU, DUKE. I'VE GOT A RACKET THAT WILL JOST FIT YOU. SIT IN AND LEARN How TO MAKE TEN GRANO F USE A FEW, MANBEE. PROFIT AND THAT BRINGS MORE SUCKERS. IF YOU WANT TO FLY HOME,TLL WHY, SURE...YOU CAN'T GO WHAT IS IT, BILLY @ SOMETHIN’ BETTER THAN ANY HAVE. TO HAVE THE PLANE SERVICED...) HARRY — BUT TH’ FOLKS HOME WITHOUT SOMETHING A BAG OF GOLDEN COMMON TREASURE -~YOU JIST IN THE MORNING WE'LL SET HER / WILL BE DISAPPOINTED FROM COCOS—~ BUT I TOOK DOUBLOONS, OR A STAY HERE BIG AS A MOUNTAIN —T DOWN ON THE WATER AND OFF WHEN I DON'T COME CAREC THAT FOR YOU, CHEST.OF DUCATS AND BACK IN A JIFFY WONDER WHAT HE HAS 7 WELL GO.......1 KNOW YOU'RE uv UP HIS SLEEVE 2 A LITTLE HOMESICK ! ‘VE COME) STEP RIGHT THIS ONE 1S YOURS, IN HERE-THEYRE MRS, NEWFANGLE. HIS NAME ALREADY 1S JIMMIE TURBER-AND ' GET THE CAR YOURS 1S GENE M°NERNEY, N. Gee Tuer fone sor is ee CNIS INS (TS ALL RIGHT, OFFICER! ('W ) so1 see! BUT You MUMS A Bee smoxdo wy Key BY J [JUMBLE- UPS TRYING TO BREA Guess! TUL DUST GETTING IN FOR THE en CAN'T OPEN mMIsTAKe eae GET FOOLED IF HE SANE ANYTHING TO” Z is SEE ae ON ‘ ease e He LETTERS T MAKE ThaATS a cicar! : NAMES OF OBJECTS (Al THIS STRIP. oC NEGOLRM OBOROKON YOKELEH NTCIES GEABD UTOTBSN E0L Sev — im BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES A CHANGE OF ADDRESS! | . ! WOT TW DICKENS n : PRE NOW COIN’? SROLTED PART OF TOWN, L ROPE To ENDOY A LTE PRIVACY, COMFORT,WITR NONE OF THE THAT GO WTA KEEPING UP SUCH EANBORMTE QUARTERS AS 1 WANE 30<T AEFT ' WT GOT To BE Bh BEAST BORE portunity her title and London social| never more compelling. Distinguish- position entitle her to. ed work is also done by Ralph Mor- \ Se gan, as the Czar; Diana Wynyard, as ‘The Tartars, several centuries ago,| Princess Natasha; Tad Alexander as often ate books to acquire the knowl-| the Czarevitch; C. Henry Gordon and edge in them. Edward Arnold. WASH TUBBS RPS! PORPSS THE JONAN MEN, EARIN ONE MORNING, COMES A PIERCING, RUNS INTO A SCHOOL OF THRILLING CRY FROM ALOFT. PORPOISES, SMALLEST OF THE WHALE FAMILY, AND THERE 1S SPORT FOR THE HARPOONERS AND FRESH MEAT FOR THE CREW. XCEPT FOR WASH MISTAKING AN ISLAND FoR A WHALE, THERE 'S NO MORE EX- CITEMENT FOR DAYS,