The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1928, Page 3

. your back feels 801 THE PICHK TONIGHT—7: BErT’ 15 and. $:20 KINOGRAMS and THE GUMPS and the BIG €OMEDY KER FACES Love Hits Quicker Th COMING—For Tuesday and Wednesday *NORMA SHEARER | —in—— The Wanmg Sex with ‘(\]QNRAD NAGEL —a .4tira¢tzons At Theatres 18 Rt | FINE COMEDV Now | SHOWING AT PALACE | 3 5t S “Poker Fflces the feature which is now at the Palace thea- tre is Harry Pollard’s best pro- duction. Not only Pollard but Laura La Plante and Edward Everett Hor- ton, who co-starg inthe picture, admit it is the best picture they have ever . played ‘in—has more laughs and funny sitdations than anything they have heretofore done. It anybody ought to be able to give an unbiaged opinion it is a cast that has played in dozens of “eature comedies in the past few years. That they are right in their declaration is borne out by the crowd at the. Palace last night. A fine sunnortinz Cast gomisls of George Siegmann, Tom Rick- etts, Tom O'Brien, Dorothy Re- vier and Leon Holmes. The Gumps is the extra comedy and there is we Klnogrlms ["SOCIAL HIGHWAYMAN" .\ | COLISEUM TONIGHT “The Social Highwayman,” the Warnef picttiré directed by Wil liam Beandite, m“‘fz ed at the ColiseWm 'Theatre, an inter: esting trio of players'in the lead- ing roles. John Patrick, who first won fame on the screen by a gay char- acterization of flaming youth sheiks, i# featured in the role of Jay Rodman Walker, a young re- porter. Patrick has been promi- nently assoclated with the role of a joyolls T, ind thiis production DRINK WATER 10 HELP WASH OUT KIDNEY POISON: If Your Back Hurts or Bladder Bothers You, Begin Taking Salts When your kidngys hurt and don't get them with a mila, harmless salts which helps to remo e body’s urinous waste u;“filmuhu- them to their normal activity. .-“The function of the-kidneys is to filter the .- they. mfln EEreR tive. ;fi“’-”i nflnlhfidmh h‘:;yob too. much; also get! trom dny. pharmacit nnuu of-Jad Salts; in- 24 hours 500 lnhu ot spoonful in a glass- i ! | Lone big ‘enough that he might de- | against whom the opening odds little Sow ‘where they gives him tray a hero. Dgrothy Devore, the little] brown-eyed girl, who developed| herself into one of the most amus- | ing of screen comediennes, plays Elise Van Tyler, an heiress in search of a thrill. i Montagu Love plays the bandit de luxe, the daring, suave, gallant robber of the road, who pretends to befriend the two young adve turers and instead hauls them in-| to the hands of the police for the | crimes he himself has committed. | “The Social Highwayman,’ written by Darryl Francis Zanuck | and adapted to the screen by Phil Klein and E. T. Lowe, Jr, is a| gay comedy-drama of real crooks | and false crooks, of romance and | thrills. Critics in other cities| have hailed it as one of the most enjoyable screen comedies of the season. an opportunity to por- reckless, adventuregome " 'NORMA SHEARER AT PALACE TOMORROW “"Norma Sheatrer, star of “Tho Waning Sex,” the Metro-Gdld Mayer picture, directed by Robe Z. Leonard, which comes to the Palace tomorrow, is undoubtadly the least conceited of movie stars, whether male or female. i e @gayg, and says sincerely, that shé s glad to avoid tha re- sponsibility of selecting her own stories, of prescribing whether they shall” have happy or sad endings,. Whethet her leading man will be an obscure player or some tract interest from her own per- formance. “ i “If one studies the cases of stars who have been given the selection of their own stories and their gupporting casts it is plain that many. pitfalls lurk in such a procedure,” says Miss Shearer. “An artist’s capabilities must be judged impersomally. possible for the artist to do this.” “The Waning Sex” is a farcical comedy adapted from the Broad- way stages success of the same name by Frederic and Fanny Hat ton. The supporting cast includes Conrad Nagel as leading man, George K. Arthur, Mary McAllu ter and others. “THE RAINMAKER® AT | COLISEUM TOMORROW | “The : Rainmaker,” Paramount’s mighty love-drama, ig the feature scheduled for a Coliseum show-| ing tomorrow. The cast is one of the production’s important as- sets, including. as it does such screen _favorftes ‘@as Ernest Tor- rence, ‘William Collier, Jr., and Georgia Hale, who had the fem- inine lead uiponnn Charles Chap- lin in “The Gold Ru “The Rainmakér”* ‘may be pic- tllmqllvly“ducrlhed as the story of a jockey and a ‘dance hall girl, runners on Life’s race track, heavy. Each overcomes a nd start, runs fair and true for a while, then weakens and falls back into the ruck. Their finai race is run in.a little border town where the sky is the limit and anything m lupwn IM do? Jr., portrays * Jockey, whose 'usefulness as such jcomes to an abrupt’ end when he is severely {njured in a thrilling race. Georgia Hale is I the ex-dance hall girl who nurses him back to life. The romance of these two works itself out in a border to! again—the race- track hanger-on popularly kyown “The Rainmaker.” It is con- “Fhe Miracle Man" ol the season. fllmmnnclt The m i | | § It is im- |’ 2| have, madame, either a red bor-| vmpfludh-. Bi. Willlam M. here shown conducting emotional blonde Rose Gallagher and brunette Peggy O'Day in New York, to sce which type responds quicker on Marston of Columbia University is Brune ttes an Blondes | & reaction tests on | shows one of the thrilly feeling, ~ (International Newsteel) "By SHIRLEY KIRKE an instrument called the “sphygmonometer.’ r4;1(/, Oh, Boy! How & Dark-Haired Ones Do Show Emotion! h Inset steam-heated iove scencs which was used in glving the little gals a chance to rexister that International lllustrated News Staff Correspondent. ENTLEMEN MAY pre- fer blondes, to dig up a well-worn phrase again, but if they want to put them- selves over in rapid-fire, 1928, American style, they really ought to seck the companion- ship of the downtrodden bru- nettes. (I'm a redhead, so you can see I'm absolutely neutral in all this fuss about the relative merits of the two types!) Where was 1? Oh, yes. "I wanted to tell you about Dr. Willlam M. Marston of Columbia University, and his queer looking thingamajig that he calls " 1 know the professor will pardon me if I've spelled it wrong. HOOKED IN PAIRS Well, anyway, Dr. Marston's ma- chine is supposed to show how quickly the various emotions regis- ter upon subjects who have all the wires attached to them. He tried out his stunt on a number of blondes and brunettes, hooked to- gether In pairs, at & meeting which turned out to be a convention of press agents in New York. A raft of red-hot love scenes were thrown on the screen to give the girlles a chance to show how fast the Incidents registered upon their tender emotions. Needless to say, some of those steam-heated osculations exchanged between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert predominated, and it may surprise you to know that, in every instance the bmunette got & bigger and quicker kick out of it than the blonde who was paired with her. READ AND WEEP! We were told afterward that the sphygmonometer was amplified by the use of a pneumograph, which testal the girls’ blood pressure, and a kymograph, the latter being & device that measures the fluctua- tions in respiration. During the progress of one Tare bo-Gllbert embrace, the brunette's blood pressure jumped from 80 heartbeats a minute to 132. She was also breathing 20 per cent. heavier and faster than her blonde companion, we were informel. The golden-haired girl's pulse utarted oft from ‘scratch at 120 and clam- bored ‘slowly up to 138. What it all means, I'm nét quite /but, everybody had a wonder- HOME ED UCATION “THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel. Issued by the National Kind 40 Street, New York City. ergarten Association, 8 West These articles are appearing weekly in our columns. Play a Game with the “Balky” Child By MARION BROWNFIELD e e, e eeeeed] 1 3]1€¥8 {OF SOMe time, “Why, how do you do. What can I do for you, today? A sham-| poo, a manicure?” A pouting, rebellious miss of | six giggled. Then she re_ypand' ed, “I'd, like to have my hair | brushed!” i “And your face given a ‘treat- ment’ with the wash cloth? We! glve lovely ‘facials’ with hot wa‘ ter and soap. We really have, si| the nicest kinds of soap you ever age just You can saw, and our towels fresh from the laundry. i dered one wer a Turkish, and| there's no estra charge!” ! “Is this game ‘Beauty Shop’?’ interrupted a now delighted little girl darting into the bathroom. “Now this nail brush is one of our most popular manicures,”’ continued the Make Believe Beau-' ty Shep lady, nodding her head.: ““All our customers insist that we‘ use ft!” “And I'd like a shampoo, too,” admitted the former little rebel. “What do yon charge?”’ Thus a' litfle girl's toilet. often a scene of “serimmage” was transformed and not by her mo-| ther but by a tactful, imaginative outsider with a daughter of her | own., i This method of making games | of routine has been so successful,| spetially with “balky” children, | that. a - music, teacher has also adopted the plan. When she has| a child, who through dhcnurlle" ment, adopts a contrary, cranky, attitude towal the lesson, she plays a gam: Bhe says, “Il! be a pupil and you be the teach- m pl Mr. or / ‘and instantly the child is on or her mettle. She ut questions, which she is sure the child has the ability to an- {swer. It the mwil has balked at clever teacher . I can't ,” in the child’s manne! -wm you count for hh. child Dblushes, . In almost| White. —my |SEPPALA TAKING la (of the Sixth International. Dog ‘15 10 degrees above zero. | :three hours, 37 minutes and {fore returning south and makes' to imitate their good ; well. Balky cl\flllru? care also points as |are not only generally cured bi tease to play the game again. | Doesn’t this seem to be a par- | tial solution of the problem pre» sented by stubborn children? thers often complain, “I | dare- to ‘cross Beuy for makes her worse." !employs strategy, a loving Her children will love her for it now and honor her in the years to come. | 4Ion t why shouldn’t PART DOG DERBY | QUEBEC, Feb. 20. — Leonard | Seppala is among the 17 starters Derby which started this morn-| {ing. There is a lght snow on the course and the temperamn’ QUEBEC, Feb. 20.—Emile St.! Goddard won today's heat in second, beating last year’s re(unl by more than 10 minutes. The distance was 41 miles. Seppala was second, his time being 3 hours, .47 minutes and 50 sec-| onds. Earl Brydges was third, his time being 3 hours, 51 min-| utes and 55 seqonds. ! ———— | SUECIAL AGENT HERE Willlam §. MtKinley, spepml Agent for the V. 8. Department of Justice, is in Junmeau on offi-| lclal business. Mr. McKinley ex-| pects to be here several days be- his headguarters - &t the Court House. He spent a short time| in -Ketchikan bolnu coming to Junean. tenced to serve 90 days in the Ketchikan ‘Jafl for violation of ‘u'u Al; ka Dry law. Ad- vices to ? mn receiyed tohy by U Mben A ~Tné‘| No. 4— . sur n:j 1 peclally the press e A LA RADDE BOWLS HIGH IN PIN TOURNAMENT After both teams In the open-| ing match in the Elks Bowling evening | Tournament Saturday had failed to reach the fourteen hundred mark, Radde pulled his team ahead to an 87-pin victory when he bowled the' highest ores of the tournament, and! me of the best seen on the| Opening with 193 pins, Radde knocked over 236 in the second! gameé and got 195 the third Mme to average 208 per game. His, team’s total was 1524. The scheduled match for 7:30 (between teams 1 and 12 was not played. At 8:30 3 and 9 met, it only |the 'former winning by 24 pins' distribution, If a general after trailing 4 pins behind at | The public is entitled to know, the end of the second round. and up-to-date ‘mother? |Metealf was high man, with ‘an cnncl\uions and recommendations ‘ayerage of 165 and single game score of 187. Tenight at 7:30 o'clock teams 7 and 8 mix, at 8:30 teams 5| and 11, and 9. Stores made Salurdny toliow: 8:30 166 146 155 467 and ats 9:30 teams 6 Team No. 3 Metgalf Council | Petrieh -~ Totals ... | Team No. 9= H. Messer. ... *Bernard *Arown 187—494 147—467 132423 451 466-1384 ' 156 160 148 464 136—436 160—480 | 148—444 Totals 444-1360 236 125 129 490 195-—624 | 183-—443 160—457 538-1524 Bringdale Shaw Totals | T 0. 3— Doy ™ °thmnn Shaver ... 135 163 162 178—502 128—4 Totals ........ 460 464-1437 *—Average taken; did not bowl, —— Drink Orange-Crush, puts you, on\wnr toes. —adv. —_———— rOldng T8 for sale at The Empire. LET DAILY ALASKA EMP]RL MONDAY FEB. 20 I928 CONSERVATION "OF OIL REPORT MADE BY NINE: {Five Recommendations Are Submitted to Sec- retary of lnleum WASHI recommen in the report committee of the Federal Board of the Interior to consider a program for the conservation the gas and petroleum resourc The contents of the report which was completed the end of Janu- ha now been made cretary of the In. terior Hubert Work, as Chairman of the Board Accompanying the a copy of a tentative by the Committee of Nine d which it suggested would, if en- acted into law, result in practical conservation, more efficient pro duction, and tend to modernize existing methods employed in the | development of oil pools. | A summary of the rm-unnnvmlu—: tion made by the Committee are| 'as folldws: | (1) Federal legislation which | 'shall (a) unequivocally declare| 'that agreements for the co-opera- tive development and operation of single pools are not in violation | of the Federal ganti-trust laws,! fand (b) permit, under suitable | safeguardg, the making, in yof over production, of agreements ‘|>elw(\9n oil producers for the j curtailment of production. | (2) Similar legislation by the various oil-producing states. (3) Immediate further study into the matter of the waste of natural gas, in order that legisla- tion may be formulated which | | will forbid such waste as fully as | may be done without working in- | justice and unreasonable hard- | snip. | (4) [Legislation by Congress , granting the Secretary of the { Interior authority to join and to ipermit lessees from the Govern- {ment to join in agreements for the co-operative development and operation of single pools. (5) The passage by Congress of the legislation heretofore recommended to it by the Secre- tary of the Interior, removing the existing mandate upon him to of- fer for lease annually, regardless of cond%flne, 100,000 acres iof Osage I n' lafids. The purpose of the tentative Bill drafted by the Committee fs | particularly in reference to recom- mendation (1) and provides for the enacting of legislation gov- erning this measure. The Committee's work covered {a period from December 10, last, |to January 27 of this year, dur |ing which hearings were held, written suggestions considered, and the final report was submit- |ted to the Of Board on January ‘ns of this year. Becretary Work stated that this {report of the Committee of Nine had not yet been considered by 'the Oil Board, or by Government technoloxlu(s who for the past 'three years have been conduct- ing an exhaustive survey into ;every phase of oil production, and consumption. {GTON, Feb. Five s have Deen made submitted by the nine, appoin 0il Conserve Department of the leglslative of ion report was Bill drafted the Secretary added, just what !the Committee of Nine determin. ed upon, and inasmuch as the Oil Board can not conclude its own program of investigation im- mediately, the Secretary felt | there appeared to be no necessity {tor withholding the report: from ithe public until finally acted upon. The Committee of Nine consist- ed of: Thomas A. 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