The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1928, Page 3

Tonight—2 Shows KINOGRAMS HOOT GIBSON “THE TEXAS STREAK” It’s a dandy comedy—then “THE GUMPS” and you'll laugh some more 4 10-25-40, Log‘es 50 cents v STARTIN(, THURSDAY for 3 nights “Sweet Daddies” Theme—“Abie’s Irish 'The Cast—George Sidney, l Vera Gordon, Chas. Mur- ray, Jack Mulhall, Jobyna Ralston, Gaston Glass and a bevy of pretty girls. - NOTICE—Starting Thurs- day, first show will start ‘at 7:30 o’clock. There will [ be a half hour concert— 7 to 7:30. REMEMBER—Smoking in the gallery. Attractions At Theatres s[’HOOT GIBSON 18 ¥ NOW AT PALACE | ‘What would happen if a movie, cowboy found himself in tre real cattle country? That question is asked and the afiswer Is supplied in a hilarious and diverting manner in Texas Streak,” the Universal Jewel starring Hoot Gibson, the feature attraction at the Palace Theatre. It is a skiliful blending of com- edy and straight drama, with the first element predominating, and Gibson proves once more that he i8 possibly the ablest actor among all the screen’s western stars. “The | ing comedy and uscs this ability to excellent advantage in “The| Texas Streak.” To reveal the plot would be an ti to those who hav seen the picture, but we ;.n g0 far as to tell you tha i{son comes into the picture +cowboy from Hollywood who !pens to be stranded in the will Gib- s a ap- real Blanche Mehaffey makes a lov {1y leading woman for the person lable Hoot, and adds not a Ibit of the comedy herself Summerville and Jack the comedy pals of Hoot, | James Marcu Alan Roscoe, Jack { Murphy and others, are n CROOK FEATURE | IS AT COLISEUM ¥ with a delizhtful | scene in which, undar the watch Iful eye of the master crook, Rve- lyn Brent impersonates herself at a fashionable garden party, the [ dainty little F. B. O. star races |like an airplane through “The Im- i postor,” which is at the Coliseum for the last two times tonight. And for tense but swift-moving action, “The Impostor” rides all [ previous crook pictures right off| I'the boards. | Poriraying a dpal role, first as | Judith Gilbert, society girl, and ! then as Canada Nell, a girl of the I'streets, littie M Brent throws herself wholeheartedly into the [ picture and takes her ,with her, as she plans and !schemes to regain a priceloss ‘jewel from o band of thieves and, ve her brother from the bleak ‘mn ity of the penitenti { Abounding in bunch-packed thrills and cleverly lightenad by deft comedy notes, the carries | her to a well-des: | Miss Brent ac her fame in crook her recent triamph in “Secret Or- ders” seems fair to be outshono by her splendid work in this new | picture. With an excellent cast, and directed through the capable I megaphone of Chet Withey, “The Impostor” appears to be for future ¢ mas of this type “shoot at. Clifford Howard is sponsible for the story, which w adapted for the screen by Adamson. mue’ h of | pictures, and a to re | [ "SWEET, DADDIES” IS | | AT PALACE TOMORROW “Sweet Daddies’ with the theme of “Abie’s Irish Rese” which made such & big stage hit, | feature attraction at the Palace | for three xights starting tomor- {row. There was a preview g |last night and “Sweet Dadd s a “wow” from start to finish, | with surprises happening about levery 100 feet of the seven reels, chucked full of (-x'n\edy wllh a RELIEVED « oo QUICKLY Carters Litle Liver Pill Pursly He has a genuine flair for play-’ . not | little | and ! sup- | audience | 8 ark | mark | Ewart | will be the| | HEADACHE | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1928. cast that speaks for itself principals are Charlie Mur “(n'nr"- Sidney, Vera Gordon, Jac | Mulhall, Jobyna Ralston and G ten Gla with a full theatre stage crew to help, a roadway chorus, rum-runners, and the cut eat little dog ever pened. There will also be half hour Tt by the orchestra un Pauly's leadership. The con T“THE GORILLA HUNT" COLISEUM TOMCRROW “The the thriller open irbridge’s Gorilla Hunt,” will | Co each night and on the Kimball or- {run, two shows { special music | To make the bridge, the greatest American hunter since Roc elt, spent two years in the most pestilent corner |of the globe. Two years in a country infested by the dreaded “Black Mamba,” the most virulent of snakes, whose slightest bite is | death, and a certain and cruel one. Two years where monstrous pythons, fifty feet in length, and ,tiny three feet Batwa pvgmies with deadly poisoned arrows, make the forest aisles averues of horror. picture Ben Bur- P S SHANGHAI-TO-HONGKONG AIR SERVICE PLANNED { st | SHANGHAI, May 2 — Estah- lishment oi commercial airplane srvice between Shanghai and , Hongkong, approximately $00 | miles away, is being considered by commercial interests repre. | senting both foreisn and Chir | investors. At a kong of | project, recent meeting in Hong- those interested in the Wing-Commander Vaughn | Fowler of the British air forces statfoned there, said triple-engin cd alrplanes would be suitable for | the service and that the trip | could be made at an average speed lof from 80 to 90 miles an hour. tStrong winds along the China | coast are an important factor | be considered in such a project. e | INDIA TRYING CONCRETE to BOMBAY, Ma India s cperimenting with concrete road {in the hope they will not only fa- I cilitate transportation, but pro a boon to the depressed Indian c ment industry. Two long have been laid in the vicinity of Benares. Another concrete high-| way 13 be laid through Alla- habad. — - eee - to JUNK ADDS “EMDEN" AS PART OF NAME BERLIN, May 2 been a member of the crew of {ithe famous South. Sea raider, the | eruiser “Emden,” i3 considered an honor in Germany. How strongly this is felt by theé crew itself was recently illustrated in the case ol Hans Junk, a machinist. Junk, who now liv in Saar bruecken, requested President von Hindenburg to permit his family name to be changed to JunkEm den. The president assented. Fu- ture generations will know from their hyphenated name that their forebear had a share in what was perhaps the most pictures ' Old papers ror sale at Tha Emplire e LT T T T T L T LT T Announcement! Elmer Reed wishes to an- nounce that he has opened a shop in the Winter and Pond Building and will car- ry a complete ling of Genu- ine Eskimo Made Hand Carved Ivory, Tobaccos, Soft Drinks and in addition will handle the Famous TFaylor RIS Made Candies. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. HHHHNNHITA, T R R IR T R N oliseum tomorrow for a two day | SOCIETY W \IAN JA .ILED F ORSHOOTING HUbBAND frrrrrrrrrrrr e SCHOOL New Work Benches manual training de; engaged in making work benches for next will save the school several hun dred dollars, which would be the of the type of bench being built if purchased from a manu facturer, according to H. E. Waid, instructor. As the benches will be affairs instead of the now in use, they inct advantage, Mr and will be more The is now rtmen new This A Three Alarm Blaze of Entertainmerit! cost ne‘man two-man will be Waid said, substan tial. Cinder Artists Out Track work in the physical edu cation department is under at the school, when the weather permits. Coach Waid said the boys are enjoying t outdoor work as a change fmm dumbbell way Mrs. Wilson is shown on her return from one of her Big Game hunts in darkest Africa. 14e picture (lower right) was taken during oie of (h(]z hunts. She is charged with felonioud 13 Mrs, Dallett H \\llson, prov“mont hm\ts- woman and explorer, is released on $25,000 bail for wounding her husband, Dallett H. \Vilson (upper right), rich attorney and iriend cf President Coolidge. She accused her spouse of unrhv{ attentions m (»lhrr women. At left TRAVEL ABROAD LURES LOI’YRIGIIT Rb(;ISTR AR Tntarnational Newsreel) DIRIGIBLE UPKEEP COSTS HALF MILLION | 9 WASHINGTON 2 Sportsmers who supplanting their yachts with airships may be interested to know it cost Uncle Sam $ 102 to operate the dirigible Los Angeles during the fiscal year 1927, Maintenance excluding pay $271,819. The pay and sub. [ of the crew cost § , and the pay of offi cers and men attached to the Lakehurst station (prorata) was $161,271. May contemplate | WASHINGTON, 0, so well now. 1 health, wouldn’t “But I wasn't days as [ am that time for my something 1 to do now.” other trips have be and pleasu ay 2The | explained strivings 000 carnest | in those poets, fictionists and other lterati | wont mean nothing in the life of Thor. {,,,.,| t vald Solberg, registrar of copy |have rights, as long he can plan | His trip to Europe, | business For 20 years estab-| tion. He has be lishment the copyright office | Library of Congre by an of in 1897.|a Boston publishing house to buy Solberg has been the official pro-|hooks for th and at time tector of the rights of authors— | ke ent many months doing re- notably gullible individuals | soarch his appointed task of And in 30 years this genial old | making a bibliography of the laws gentleman, whose office in the of all countries, now in common ement of the Library of Con-| in law libraries. gress is flooded with n 5, guide-| | This year affairs books and rare ns a| witl not permit his leaving. There booklover's passion, I']fll'“"‘l;; 't_even an international copy- and made 15 trips acr the At-lpights con?ention this summer, he lantic, on every occasion that ]li:{ll"t‘”l,nlv‘_ about 200,000 in 1927. Most of office work lighteneil sufficiently | % o3& the 3,057,192 balls imported came to allow him a few months off. | from the United Kingdom and Of all the trips he has made, BALL IMPORTS DECLINE represents trade worth more than Solberg looks back most fondly $1,000,000. upon the four years he spent in a| WASHINGTON, Few ———— centuries-oid monastery in \{tmn o foreign golf dbaiis will boun We cah ane aenver. Phone 528. “That was a long time ago,” hoacross American links this year,'y pn Atmquist Press Your Sult at pen for a combina- by the; alio by as re and operation, crew, ince the sent of cost act congress one on in his office ! department of commerce reports showing that imports fell off et . - IT’S FUNN' When you are Traveling Along * * In your Automobile * * * * And you come to a Hill * * * * You “give her more Gas” * * * But when you are y * * f Running Your Business * * * * * And the Grade gets Steep * And business Slows down * » * * * * Do you cut off the Gas * * * * And stop Advertising? * * * * And if vou Do * * * * 3 * Does business get Better? The Daily Alaska Em pire Is Alaskans Best Advertiaiug Medium and setting up exercises. A meet is scheduled between | the eighth and sixth and seventh |grades in the near future, and |there may also be an inter-class high school meet if enough inter- es shown. No inter’school track or baseball is contemplated, although a game or two will prob- ably be played with one of the city teams. is AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Pete Miller, Adolph Seattle; C. J. Alexand kan; Burt Williams, v, Hirst-Chichagof; Clark, Heorah Alaskan Willlam Wallace, Seattle; 'l.;uu\, city; Charles Burke, | Montana; Glen Crawford, |S. B. Beck, Funter Bay; John 0: Phipps, Cordova; Steve Samis, S mashing action, Thrills and H eroism galore! E very iifford, Ketchi- Steve . H. Frank I nch Libby, “4 arvelously Libby; P acked full | Everett, Wash.; Mable George, | William Wrangell; Nea! Remynse, eity Zynda Carl Dahlberg. D g Ol1d papers ror sale at Th(- Empire. e : Nippedinthebud” without ‘‘dosing” by rubbing over throat and chest Tcrrific battles, Ominous desperadoes, Roaring comedy! Prices—10-20-40-Loges 50c COMING—Thursday and Friday “GORILLA HUNT” THE ROCKLAND BOARDING HOUSE is now open for business. Room and Board. Home Cock- ing. Mrs. Skor( Prop. 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