The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1927, Page 3

l()Nl( HT RETURN ENGAGEMENT CUBA WHEAT LY The Famcus Charleston Dancer who stage latest style of irtroduces all the dancing, including THE BLACK BOTTOM as it is She is the same clever, last The movic feature is danced smiling g night. “THE WEDDING LEATRICE J°Y and ROB Wanda Wiley in 2 Two Reel Late NE"'S Cpens _ PRICES—10-25-50-Loge w York and in rl made a big hit SONG” ERT AMES with Comedy the Show €0 cents Thursday—N The movie feature is Aileen Pri s Wheatly will change her dance program— Elinor gle and Edmund Lowe Glyn’s “Soul Mates” with sp:-ull Saturday Night—“BLACK BOTTOM” Contest—don’t miss this—Enter Now 4tlmcuons At Theatres ‘ | - EE = “MY HUSBAND'S WIVES® | AT COLISEUM TONIGHT " The which William Fox poduetion band’s Wives,” at the tonight only enjoying in ous eities can b credited 1 fo the eooperation of thr mous stars of ths scrcen Mason ho star of this cular picture does her full to make it a hit through gplendidly charming work. Bryant Washburn, tablished as a in right, helps her potentially In “putting the which make the film popular. Bar bara LaMarr, now at the ver) zenith of her glorious triumphs . a silvershect favorite, wrote story. * This latter feature of the com bination is quite un first magnitude ever supplic unother star of the first magnituds with her story material for a sta ring vehicle. This 1s also ono times that a leading man ha boen taken from his position o starring in his own features with out being co-starred. sucee the latest “My Hus Coliseun vari share he long star his own very across” of tha "'DOUBLE BILL 1S | NOW AT PALACE “"Cuba Wheatly, the dancer tion of whom is made ols The only tea whou flnvot -m..}‘“'"' histrionic Son 23 the fow | of citement f: ravished men’ whoere, mmnble ind Leatric Wedding Song” are the tonight at the Palace ston) deals with the operations of band of crooks aid=d by a beaut ful girl, and their attempt i unsophisticated island pearls worth a million. Their plot frustrated when the girl love with their ndec but not until many have been “Th stion Joy featured in to rob falls vicetim, in int scen The climax is exc ptionally stron “JOHNSTOWN FLOOD” COMING, COLISEUM The production of a on land or on the sea alone is a very difficult task, but when the direetor is confronted hand ling mi i of gallons on the land, the task difficult. In addition huge dam had to b ! to hold the wators in check untii the dramatic moment arrived | to this, the fact that compleic cities had to be built for destruc | tion you have a fair of what accomplizhed in the filming of “The Jchnstown Flood,” { Fox Films, stupendous drama of }tha sh 5 catastrophe the Comemaugh Valley, ngylvania in 18 which be the feature attraction Coliseum Thursday with of is water to construeted the day and To film w “The as nee Cummi feet Johnstown Flood" y for Diractor Ir to long a gh censtructed in the Cali mountains, it ving ELINOR GLYN STORY COMING TO PALAGE ““Soul Mates,” Jack Con in vm fresh and fragrant i linds of peotection —finthcmmmflavon hw-onlymduOnmz (1) Twice-toasted - - the only way to unmask rich hidden flavors of a tea leaf. (2) Then the leaves sealed in vacuum (like your coffee) =<+« but sealed HOT at its most aromatic moment. Pa— S ~ 3) The world’s on!y doubly | this, a | Add | whica | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927. Metro-Gold tion, is based on | Why novel illinor Glyn since “Threc tory is laid in England with love betwe and daugh financier in Mme. Glyn | able The sto | dent romance, and in | roine, played by Aileen Pringle, | confron with the question Should she let the man th marry her for her money? id | mund Lowe plays the made lead | “Soul Mates’ to the Palace |for Thursday and Friday nig} only. fashion | love | | come D WAGNER DISLIKES | "GERMAN REPUBLIC BERLIN Wagner July only son of H | | i | hown. | photoplay | Tex Rickard spins not, nei promoter. Dempsey-Sha idea | "rankfor material the Wagner th Wahnfried, Ba refused Ha homnt to ha following wor entrust historic in vreuth in the “How can ong fal - JUST B“'Tuvr') THE NUG( dv T S[I‘\I' COLLECTS ither does he uppercut. Butwhen the dust of the Dempsey-Sharkey fight settles, Rickard will be off in a corner some place, counting his profits. Pictures show him as he looked when he struck New York years ago, with but two fights to his credit, as he looks foday, a mxlhonaue ¢ sports rkey?Ho Hum Another Fortune for Tex! P By JACK Y. KEENE, + International IMlustrated I\cwn Staff Correspondent. he boys are rolling up nnolher % TEW YORK (LLN)—Th 1\ fortune for George Lewis Rickard—Tex, the Midas of boxing. “ . Sharkey and Dempsey will go through their antics. The rest of our lives, But it will be only another pay check for George L. And when he saunters down to the bank to have 1t filed away with the rest, he may say to the clerk: “Dear me, Geoffrey, only four per cent! I wish they'd let me run this institution. I'd have 'em walting in line for hours to de- posit or withdraw. Four per cent! Shucks! I'd rather put on roller skating matches after banking hours; thess marble floors are great. And B sell hot dogs from those two w.ndows in the rear. And on legal holidays we could hold quoits matches. There's & sport that's never been promoted. And I could pack them in here! Tex was a banker himself, once, ‘A faro banker, if you nlease. It was back In the '00's that history first tells of Rickard. He was Town Mar. shal of Henryetta, Texas, where he had temporarily settled after having knoclked around the West as a cow valet. He had drifted into the Bouthwest at the age of ten and shortly had come into man's estate. The job of marshaling Henryetta palled on him, and when the news came that gold was being found in Alaska, Tex headed that way. Not with a pick and shovel, but with a faro bank. Tex is lke that. Ho | lets the others mine gold and knock sach other silly, He promotes. He reached Juneau in 1895 and headed for Circle City, 300 miles north. There he opened a bar and gambling house, and there he flour. Ished. But after a time, being youth- tul and unwilling to settle down, he f@rifted down to the States. He ap- peared in various parts of the west soast, always promoting. Wherever It was possible to get two men or B crowd together, there was Tex. His role was minor for almost ten years. Then he put on the Nelson- Gans fight in Goldfield and collected W, sizeable stake for those days, but hardly enough now to induce Gene Tunney to slap a mosquito. His fame spread East for the first time when, a short time later, he announced the Jeffries-Johnson fight for California. The Governor de- murred, however, and Tex, not hav- ing reached the point where he could tell officlals what they could or could not do, moved the fight to Reno. Tex dropped fighting for a while | #nd went to South America to estab- Ysh an enormous cattle farm for a syndicate of business men. The war @disrupted plans and he returned to ‘the Unitc? States, He saw the possi- quuy of . “ont between Jess Wil. , the c. ‘“pion, and Frank' “an and et w. ot 10 put i§ oven - o -'( do their stuff, the prelims will ushers will strut around. And after all have been paid off for their evening’s work from the $1,000,000 gate, Tex will seize on to & big share of what’s left —probably enough to permit you or me to live in ease for the ‘Willard held out for $47,500, Moran for $28,750, and the management of Madison Square Garden for $15,000, Tex paid, to the jeers of the sport But the gate receipts were and it was Rickard's turn . The $15,000 rent annoyed him, however, and the next thing New York knew, Rickard had ob- tained a long-time lease on the Gar- den for about $200,000 a year, But he had to keep the place busy. He did. When it wasn't boxing, it was bike racing, and when it wasn't that, it was dog shows or something else. In the first six months he took in $1,873,880, and kept on doing better every year, When the old Madison Square Garden had to be torn down, Rickard engineered the building. of the New Madison Square Garden, not on Mad- ison Square, but a few blocks fro Forty-second and Broadway. This is owned by a $7,000,000 corporation, in which Tex holds a large block of stock. He gets a $20,000 a year salary, and holds a twenty-year con. tract, with seventeen more years to run, making him exclusive manager and promoter for the Garden, regard- less of what or where he promote The New Garden opened in Decem- ber, 1925, and since thien has been taking in more than the old Garden ever did, In the meanwhile, Tex has been promoting fights wherever he thinks they may best be staged. He put on the Dempesy-Willard fight in To- ledo, which was the nearest tlring to a fallure he ever saw. Only 20,000 appeared in an arena bullt for 65,000, and Tex made a niggardly $76,000. The Dempsey-Firpo and Dempscy- Carpentier bouts brought in $8,000,- 000 at the gate; the Tunney-Demp- sey fight drew $2,000,000, including & profit of $400,000; the mext Tunney fight may draw even more, Tex is skillful; he piays his op- ponents for publicity, he wrangles with the boxing commissions, he makes nolsy threats and vivid ges- tur But when the smoke clears, it’s almost apparent that Tex was in command of both armies all the time. His ethics are often criticlzed, yet he maintains a reputation for honesty that has withstood the as. saults common to men in his place. It is gald that on his first New York venture, he signed up Moran for $20,000, half of what the cham- ‘plon was to get. But Willard held out $7,500 more, and after the fight Moran got a check for $23,750. Moran was puzzled. «"1';:24: you I'd give you halt gave Willard,” Tex ex- plained, “And the big Dnm held me up for $7,500 mor uch valn 'to curtain E”MEUYMAKES \cuBA WHEATLY REPEATED HIT 15 AT P.fi.i ik ir | Packed House at Coliseum Greets Last Showing of Johuny Get Your ( | i alin kecona 1 Kik Your Colisen ni comed Gun, Theat s of th rtainment m hou ent r bi choru 1d ted girl , comedy lin excellent with 4 acting music alik and well S N ike an Now Sider, Mi in a walt oldtime Wheatly next M ling And other portra Dl i re in part met he wa me al of a rundown eking lure with h clever the fifth d t ry require 1 SheEm b supportad by ¢ His tocracy ne and then Black Bo niber copied Ann and to ; done by the o beauty demands iss bait not Charl Wit Whe only 2 And the Rae Burnham ton” entir P et Mi anet a clever ind pl large audience yod down stair f th Duke charactoriz: wheezy English b his position seriously his household staff with an iror hand, Jack Davis as the valet basking in the reflected gl ry of hi wster's tit! and C McNaughtan as a wild and wooiy) whoy who liked ing and when ho was “mournful,” | contributed dy. 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