The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1927, Page 3

F’ICKETT’ WHERE BIG PICTURES ARE SHOWN T()NI(,HT FRIDAY and S\ll RDAY "'15 end 9:20 Absolu telv Un pumllnl ed THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES L T T THREF, GREAT PICTURES IN ONE l)l;llqt Fail'te See This Spectacular Epic of the GOLLEN WES That You’ll Never Forget .50 40 25 .10 .60 $ ~“CHILDREN, Thursdny and Pr' day nghts o griz CHILDREN, Satarddy nght € necial A YLOGES T & AND SUNDAY MAT! NEE, AND SUNDAY NIGHT, AND ONDAY NIGHT THB lure of the unknown—thrills such as you’ve never felt—await you in this mighty tale of adventure at the snow-coverced roof of the world. - Rex Beach’s mighty novel, now a film Wmhdul-fiof bhoddm t, men the webofd:e\’ul:onl 'l'hednmm‘ ul;of-mnwbommduxl -nd :‘demm.ndvenma,fi-d. »#h NORMAN KERRY LIONEL BARRYMORE Scenavio by HARVEY GATES "3 GB Gnénsa HILL production OD : = ) lwfl“ ezlls “tor a prigon car to show the aection agd reactiom of prisoners about to serve sentence, .land Mr. Hill was anxious to have that car ufider ¢lose observation. Special permigsion from Washing- fon was obtained whereby Hill, Itis assistant, M. K. Wilson, and "er b«'r\hs, was lmn several ~tables and chairs kept snug against the wall. Al cne end a stove, lce box and various things necded to propa Here the chef held cooked food three times except fe THE FLAMING FRONTIER | OPEWS AT PALACE TONITE T]u- big production, spectacular, hist “The Flaming Fron- tier,” with a great cast, opens a( the Palace tonight. The thumb | nail synopsis follows: | In 1876 the tide of civilization is steadily pushing Wegtward. The | Indi; are growing restle and jealous of the advancing whites.! On the plains, settlers and sol-| diers are blazing the way, while! in Washington, politicians and yprofiteefs are selling whisky and | arms to the Redskins. Bob Lan don, pony express rider, arm scout and friend of Cen. Custer,| through Senator Stanwood, gets |an appointment to West Point.| { There he meets Lawrence Stan- wood and the latter’s sister, |1t is a case of love at first | General Grant is Prosident | Geheral Custer is seeking to bring peace in the West but this clashes with the interests of the profi- teers and they try ‘to disgrace Custer before Grant. Custer is {aided by Senator®Stanwood. In jorder to get Stanwood, the plot- | ters involye son with Lucretiv| | Belden, at West Point. Thers is la scandal and to shield the Scna- | tor, Langdon takes the blame and | is expelled. He returns. to Cus- jter's command. The Indians, aid- {ed by the remegade whites, |under Chief Sitting Bull, for i tack on the Whites. Custer, :I:I as to their nuambers, jon the Littic Big Horn. Ha 1400 men; the Indians numbe "!mlls'amln Custer gends )."n';'lrn (through th> Indians with 2 mos ‘( ge ordering Major Reno to come 'to the ‘rescue. Reno fails and| ,( uster and his ecommand slaughtered. The prof gleeful. What finally comes as a startling this great picture. mis- attacks | happens x to| e | | “RUSTLING F AT COLISEUM "Ruaumr 101 f‘uyfi,fl‘" Fm r~.1m {latest rclease, is to he seen at! ‘the/ Coliseum théatre Saturday | matinee and evening. Thls is a screen version of Petar B. Kyne's famous story of New Me: l;%ch life, in which Georgp rien and Anita Stewart have the leading roles, O'Brien is the young actor who, At twenty-five, finds Idmself one| ‘ot the most popular of the Fox| Blims gtars. He had the- leading | ,lulcfi in such produtfions as: “The {Johnstéwn Flood” “Tha Iron Horse,” “Havoc” and “The Stlver ‘Treasuro | Before coming to the screen, | O"Brien served during the World ‘war with the submarjne section | 'and whfle in the navy ha beéame | light heavyweight champion of the Pacific fleet. - This boxing ex- | perience, shows in “Rustling for Cupid.” One of the big scenes is a fight botween Brad Blachford, the character portrayed by O'Brien, and Jack Mason, the role of Sid Jopdan. ‘There dre no palled punches fn this battle and ‘it is a fight all over the street of the little town of Sycamore Creck, New Mexico. In fact tho entire pictur Of punches that bring jclutches and then laughter, CUPID" TURDAY | | ' { { is tull heart | HE BARRIER" COMES | TO PALACE ON SUNDAY | [ e el Manager Boickett annoum_'n"x another big ‘eature for next Sun- day—it is “The Barrier.” i Here's a film full of action! ac- tion! action! A vigorous story| {of early Alaskan days when men | tought With . their fists for their diggings in the gold fields and for the women they loved with | 'equal rzadiness and fierce delight, 4 vivid and rugged love story Kt:nncelv:a and told as only Rex , Beach could concoive and tell it, ;pnrtrayed against a picturesque i background of primitive lite in an | | A'askan village populated by fur| 1!!’!])!)01'! and seal fishers. { Rex Boach is ome of the best Enown of American writers. And “The Barrier” Is one of his best sellers. It has been read By mil- lions. Beach's stories are full of | swift action, forceful characteriza- | that make them unsurpassable | Svoilers” proved this. And so did ;t‘lawl- Gojd,” “The Ne'er-dc- “Phe Barrier” proves it all over' qhn f | ticn and deep romance—elements material for ‘the screen. “The and “The Winds of Chance.” | Darryl “Francis Zanuck, the scen-| arist, were passengers on & prison car that left Los Angeles for Fort Leavenworth. There weré eighteen prisoners !mldu the picture people, who * “Simple buckthorn bark, ul,i--r- Ine, etc, as mixed in Adlerik: helps stomach trouble in minutes by removing GAS. Brings out a surprising amount o( old waste matter you _mever| | ought was in your LEGION CAST | Loer jan amatour IS READY FOR | MUSICAL SHOW Produc li;)rrli Will Be Prc-! cented at ‘Coliseum, Monday, Tuesday With five days them hefore the ance, chorus and forthcoming Amer! show are already throngh with study and memorizing, and § Director Mack is devoting hearsals in fines and stage de portment, and, judging from a | pre-view of the comedy it will h» presented by the local players in a manner that would do credit t any average stock organization. The play itself, while poscessing somewhat more of a plot than the usual musical comedy, of that airy, helter-skelter, non i ous kind of amusement ing to those theatre-poers to while encugh songs and cho bers are introduced to sity between laughs. While the pick of histroni entsamong the “old by found, in “Dnteh™ H y Sparling, “Shorty LeRoy Molan, Jock Day Rohner, Mildizd Ab Mr Jenne, several will bid fer Ic populis being happily cast in p to them ard they will ivante Of thos their ini will b Louis Thradora still in front of initial arform. the Legion is Barnhofos, ' show to make ng the cast Cates, Ard Budwin, n gettlng Bobby Mack who [ make lis first local appearance | in a lcgitimate character stody. | Louige Cates wiil he seen in a| medienne role end is an ama-| player of considerable t tal- gaining her first experien e | the stage as leading lady of dramatic club while | China Bernhofer, ever reli ab'e in any part t for, and un- guestionably a really better na tural-comedian than ' most prof sionals ¢“her than the big timer:, is eapecially suited ‘to the role ha will be seen in next Monday, d, liking the character as he doc his best 'performance can looked for. other local .favorite that natural ability and exps which * places him oul:'i(h' tha category of amateur as the name implies to “home talent” theatri- cals, will have -opportunity to show to advantage in a high mirthful character, that of an e centric Italian ‘lover, extreme jealous, Many laudatory remarks eminate from the rehearsal room eoncerning the work of Harry Sperling as the leading man and, according to Bobby Mack, whn hos produead the bill for many 'y jonal companies, Sperliig as good as ony- professional gast for this particular part. as Ray Moora, who will direet and act as accompan- isi in all the musical numb Maxine K'ine has had charge of the dancing and chorus mrl Bobhy Mack who has directed the ¢ generally have all gcted in @ like capacity in the presentation of “Ch Yon Wildeat” with pro. fassional companies outside a thorough finished performance geems assured. The hill will be presented two nights, next Monday and Tuesday at the Coliseum Theatre. Jon o oo ATTENTION A snecial meeting of AURORA BNCAMPMENT A-1 1. 0. O. F will be held in ODD FELLOWS' HALL, Juneau, Alaska, on Satur day evening, October 29th, to confer the Royal Purple degree. Barbeque with bread and sait follows the work which will be- gin at 7 o'clock sharp. No purple memher should miss ent, on Peking “Dutch” in be is over Inasmuch A Ay | this event. L. W. KILBURN, Becretary. —adv. I +ing work An epic of the huge s teel momsters that rush head- leng over the chinine tracks. UUITS CAREER . OF DARING AT RGE, 44 YEARS aplain Kettle,” British her, Has Retired from Flying Forces I‘n;:‘.m A Commodore Charles mton, known famili “HIPAVON, Ajr sh Jand as the “Captain Kettle of the' air force,” has retired. With his retirement theye ends ”!4‘ most adventuresome career m the royal air force. He h pur- chased a houge in Wiltshire and will pass ‘the remainder of his life in quiet contrast to his first 11 year During the war Commodo emson, a emall, dapper ma with a short, rakish bea ¢ such a terrer to the Gormans that they put a price of $5,000 on his| head, dead or alive. But one branch of the was not sufficlent for the morning he was an After lunchcon hé drove an ar- mored car. And he found time f» odd moments to run an armored train, He was awarded the (thhh. guished service order for his dar- in command of naval| lanes and armored cars uf Dunkirk. . He was in command 0t snccessful air raids on Bruges Zocbrugge and Ostend in 1915, Ife was mentioned in dispatches tive times and was awarded a bar o his D. 8. O, the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guorre. Since the armisticy Commodore Samson has carried out many dai- | ing flights, his last one when he MONTE VERA RE ) WILLARD LOUIS CTIS IIARLAN EDDIE GRIBBOIN JACKIE I”UE' TCM GALLER BLUE 3 FOY NEWS PRICES 10—20—50 Loge: €02 COMING—MONDAY and TUESDAY “OH, YOU WILDCAT” Given by the L America Reserved Seats “ Butler Mau | | | ion their 1 «u, having used the same pla of the yard, limits and Chief Getehell was service, early alled !nlu as the animal had starte sorts of persons and things, The chief fifally placed a rope on Mr. Goat's horns, but leading him to the “cooler” was ancther job. The goat would take a rud, 1éd four Fairey-Napler machin: on a round-trip flight ‘to Ca Town. “Captain Kettle” wag ono of ¥England's® pioneer fliers. He ba- gan flying in 1909, when he was in the payy. The admiralty then possessed *no machines, so Sam- kon and other officers who took po.. to the air had to learn’to fly in two airplanes placed at their dis posal by Sir Frank McLean. Among Samson’s ploneer feats were the first cross-country night flight, the first ascent—in 1912-- from the deck of a man a' war | while steaming, and the first sea- plane experiments. Commodore Samson is the som ot Charles Leopold Samson, for- | mer president of the Law!Society. ———————— “Butter’ s | Arrested by Jl’olwp CMI | f “The WIM of chiet of polics is all right, but being the offi- cial ‘BoRt’ s tough" uhll Chief of 'ge Getchell this tvm,d a he softly pnmn, certal of anatomy to| re a]ly L5 1 ook ”" Jabdged just in the nick of possibly a couple of jumps, and then a bump and the chief was generally the “bumpee,” unless he time, for tho at- all direction: which was seldom tacks came from seemingly at all times. The g was finally landed in the ‘“cool- er” in the City Hall building but not until scores of school kiddics and adults bad advised the chie about certain oimtments, after hav- ing a good time at the chief’s ex pense, Chief ¢ rounded up asked him i men?7and if he éon'd find him to get even. man Smith and any of his » and Le Brix, with two government officials at Le Bourget field, Parll jtlfl ht to Africa 2nd then to South America. today | at “butting” into ‘and: agalnst m, ocal Post of the n Legion Now on Sale at ro Drug Co. um, \ SO OWRUCIMCEER % L. I, GO it 0100 A. Deloux, ‘mining engineer, calmly proceed in the mid- resident of Douglas, left for Ket- of the street until it suits/chikan on the Admiral Rogers. helr convenlence to turn aside. g “it is enough to drive any chauf-| For a 1'1"‘8 woeks stay m KU!- four crazy,” tourists declare. | ehikan, L. R:diingshafer of the In this respect Cologne is thef” o F""’“‘" Service loft on the very opposite of Berlin, whoreIAd"' ‘ral Rogers, He 1 making accidents are the order of the| CUt Uic annual audit of records 6n day becamw: autos drive reckless- | the Tongass National Fq’““ ) Iy through the streets ,not even | » stopping when a street car halte 501‘1 mp"‘" m”" ar The lgl“ They are nuw in South ne in five successful long distance flights, ‘Internationt Newsreel) will fisten to no -siren or horn,| | but 4, dle EXTRA FEATURE! Hallowe’en Masquerade DANCE {in the city But a $500 bond must be put uy, as peace lmd] been disturbed. . { The two hustled to the City Hall, the. K“é{‘l.wa.v easily lo- cated, led back to where he be longed, ud Ms and doors} i BERLIN, | | trayelers Paris clare that in Germa Cologne. ' The absolute It is 27—Americkn to Berlin from touring cars de-i t difficult city, a chauffeur is' | they say, of the street: for an automo- the streets Uy'n at moder- SATURDAY NIGHT-OCTOBER 29 Given by Women of Mom PRIZES-—— POR BOTH GENTLEMEN AND WOMEN FOR: m E‘hte Costume, ed Character. Character. !lnl'irAWhJucnhm u-m—‘lmflmu Mu,u* -pedestrians!