The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 3

"flmlllllfllllfllllllIIII||II|IIIIII|III|III1 S Last Titiie Tonight LEWIS STONE and DORIS KENYON in “The Blond Saint” PICKETT’ PAL ACE o LATE NEWS Christic Comedy FLAMING ROMANCE Tuesday and Wednesday { HOOT GIBSON . _in the DENVER DUDE T . ; S L8 q—————i t Autraclions - At Theatres B———~——:; f “THE BLONDE SAINT” | SHOWING AT PALACE Two stirring love stories are unfolded side by side in “The Hlonde Sdint,” which is at, thc Palace tonight fer the final twc showings. The principal romance involves Lowis Stone and Doris Kenyon ‘Their affairs are interwoven in the romance of a young Sicilian ¢couple, played by Ann Rork and Gilbert Roland. Incidentally, “The Blonde Saint’ 1§ said to be the first of the fea. ture photoplays of the year tc emphasize the trend of producer: to discard jazz, cabaret and so called modern life in favor of ro- mantic adventure, “The Blonde Saint,”. based on Stephen F. Whllm.nps novel, “The Isle of Life, was adapted hy Mar- ion Fairfax, produced by Sam E. Rork for First National Pictures agd directcd by Svend Gade. | MYSTERY FEATURE NOW AT COLISEUM | “Whispering Wires,” Fox Film's baffling, laughing mystery drama, at the Coliseum tonight, contains some of the finest comedy scenes ever incorporated in any film Mack Swain and Arthur Housman are cast as two dumb but inter. ested detgctives who are sent t( a mansion to solve a mystery. In stead of sticking to their job, how. ever, they become involved with, a, pretty. mdid, Their antics ir the sequence in question are fun. ny enough to keep .the most blase audience iu an uproar. Anita Stewart, the star, gives ¢ charming performance. Miss Stew- art's acting in “Whispering Wires" <xplains why she continues to hold 8 place all her own in the hearts of motion picture fans. [ vy S g | HOOT GIBSQN 18 | | COMING PALACE | . It's the day of speeialties in the movies now, and Reaves Eason, the prominent film director, special. izes in thrjlls. , That’s why he was chosen to di. rect Hoot Gibson .in the star's latest Universal picture, “The Den. ver. Dude,” which comes to the alace theatre hert Tuesday for an engagement of two days. Eason, who has heen a director for almost ten years, is an expert nu(,.. only at the. difficult task of tplufid a story in motion pictures, at ‘at (he grlcks of motjon picturg graphy, lighting and specta. effect. expert, is he at dirgcting thrilling and nwcucuhr t getting the awean of rlpld gerous action onto _ celluloid he 'u signed especially t4 ct the splendid chariot race ll‘ “‘Ben Hur,” declared by critics tp'be the most thrilling scene ever for the screen. fi 8, mow under Iong-lerm pon. to Unlveull Pictures' Corpor. fegture to be wfl:?l!alh tomorrow uhy, o wfi. Busi- w :pechl lmwmnee. Large endance desired., J. 'r..rmlcn S, Vi m Adjutant. West Branch, Iowa, yesterday only a slccpy Quaker village, today hes ncw meaning in the world, bert Hoover, old land marks ascociatel with is boyhood ate fast devcloping into shrines that attiact townsmen and tourist. { For as the birthplace of Her- Upper right is the Republican nomince’s birthplace, & cne-stery frame cottage, but now the kitchen of the house that gince has been re- built, is another landmark, for here is Two recent pictures of Mr. and Mr: By SUE M'NAMARA (A. P. Correspondent) WEST BRANCHZOWA, July @ —Serenity and satfgfaction prey in this little Quaker village where Herbert Hopver wa now that he has been nominated for President of the Plenty there are of the staunchi Quaker faith who nod their heads quietly and say: “I told you so, because they have known Herb Hoover since he was a little boy and know that he comes of stock from which Presidents a made. The birthplace; of fthe man v a humble ‘one-story frame cottage, but this has since been added to and the room where Herbert Hoo- ver was born is now used as a kitchen. Bees buzz around the yellow June reses-ef-the house, set at~The "edge -0t fertile rollmg green prairie land/ and ploughed fields. . Already tourists are leav- ing the main highway which goes through West Branch to pass into the side street which contains his birthplace Present at Hoover's Birth A. W. Jackson, now an editor, but in the days of Herbert's boy- hood, a pninter, §ays that he has been “wielding his pen vigorous. ly for the last ten years to make this home-town boy President of the United States.” ,MF. Jackson’s mother, Eliza Ann ‘JackSon, was present when Hoover was horn, and wrapped him in his swaddling clothes. He has heard his father tell of Mrs. ane morning and ying: they've got a mnew boy Jesse Hoover's house.” Hoover's father was a s$mith and his mother a preacher. They ren, Teodore, May and Herbert, Thrown Out of Shop:~ “Many a.titme | have seen our crabby old fereman thzow Her- bert and young Ray Wickarsham, son of the editor of the Branch Times, out of the affice,” recalls Mr. ‘Jackson of over at bla Quakz United States. | Jackson coming home, “Well,' had three child-| West | “The lvno‘ where the “returns” !nill | Kven s hims rested when he had nothing to say. as a youngster he could ex- If on any subject that t 1 but he w never » to talk for (he sake of falk-| He would rather listen tof | the other fellow if he had anythin ‘ { worth while to and if not Her bert always had something to think | about and the same is true of Mr.| Hoover today. Another fine trait in his character ig gratitude. Now that he is famous and wealthy he does not forget those who ovo. friended him when he was a home- | less orphan boy.” ! h Carran incident | This staiement of Mrs is proven by a touching which just occurred in West Branch. Mr. William Walkor, the man whom Hoover himself credits | with having first gotten him in.! terested in geology, died at thel Fake ov 87 cniy! aifew days belofe |'the Republican Convention opened. ; He was buried in a suit. purchasec with money sent him by Hoover. Source of His inspiration In dusty old cabinet in | shabby Iittle parlor in which some of. the funeral flowers still stood, repose the stones and fossils which first gave Herbert Hoover an ido: of the wonders of the earth's for-| mation and far lands to conquer.} That old cabinet of specimens in the village doctor's office had a| lgreat deal to do with the color ful carcer which has mow b ght him closg to the White House. He used to spend -hours dn front of it! when 4 Dvoy, redding the label studying the queer ormations, Then he would go down to thaj Burlington tracks which ran! “through the town and hunt fnrl ! mica and agates and crystal among | the gravel. ! And’ when Hoover returned to West Branch several years ago, hal went to see Mr. Walker, His | observing eyes must have noted| i the failing strength of his old friend, the worn carpet, the fadad | i wall paper, the worried look on! Mrs. Walker's face. Anyway al the a | | of Montparnass jlor Lower right is Mrs, J. K, Carran, whem Hoover refers to as his ‘“swect-faced, paticnt teacher.” AMAT. Newt Butler's lunch room come in, and whese proprietoy remarked that he once ‘licked the Hoover.” Hoover are at me left, taken at their present homs m California. /R I()bll\(, THINS R47\I\b OF PR(MES‘SI()\ IL (,lRL M()l)hln‘a PARIS, AT Ligt July 2 models are Professional class in this citadel of art before have there been artists in Paris, =0 many and so many galleries, but models rarti women, are a vani; ing race With a few as .u Never £0 rly rare exceptions the professionals have been raplaced by an anonymous crowd of out-of \Milk stenographers, mannequin, 1|um dre: making establishgents, chorus girls, and above all, by disinterested girl friends devoted to the cause of art. Art is so much the fashion that painters and sculptors often find their choice of models limited only by the list of the2ir aequaintances | Many American girls, iwell <lucat- ed, eof good familieg, consider it fan honor to pose in the studio: and Montmartre The old whose figu forent ar| professional model, inspired so many dif. sts and #o many differ. ent works, can no longer compete * | with those who devote themsely s to the studios for love of art nor with those who seek there th easy and joyous existence which Bohemia is reputed to offer. Most of the celebrated among the old models have to frequent their ancient haunts arza dead. But some are still attached to the world of paint and chisels. Colarossi has left b* figures ceased n.une to art academy just back of the cafe du Dome. famous in his day, at the Academy Jean Mancius, is now j 3 Delecluse. Today the Italians are repl by Russians, Levantines, 8, negraes, and the model market transferred from the Car Brea, in Montmartre, to the Grande Chaumiere, in Montparnas. the Beaux-Arts School the e nels of the Russian Imperial G emigrated in France, furnish su- boys liked to play around the shop. ‘bunuh of crizp green bills luurdqwrb models of Appolos They always. came back after they had been thrown out. “My parents lived on the adjoin.' ing- block to the Hoovers. Jessc| Hoover, the father of Herbert, xn\c‘ me the first dollar I cver earned for assisting him in his blacksmiti shop. Looking back on it now 1 think my own father furnished the dollar to keep me away from' the old swimming hole which Her- bert later discovered also.” At the other end of town can he en the well kept cemetery where oover's father and mother are; hurled He was left an orphan boy at the age of ten. He leved| with an uncle and aunt at~ West Branch for a time. The aunt, whom Hoover still refers to as; Aunt Millie, -pow lives at Quarrt, Iowa., ‘Later Herbert,was taken to Oregon to live with an uncle, ‘Dr. H. J. Minthorne. Hoover's Patient Teacher Mrs. J. K. Carranlives in this house at, the .north. end, of town and on thé wall of her living room’ picture. of Mr, Hoover, which hg! gave. her ‘at the time .of his visit to West Branch in 1923 when Mrs. Qarran pfesented him to the crowd at the dedication of West Branch's new school house. In a recent address to the lowa Society in Washington, Mr. Hoo- ver referred to Mrs. Carran as their. way into Dr. Walker’s_hands? after Mr. Hoover had gone and, more money followed from time' to time, enougi to ease the old doctor’s last days and make him proudly parade Main street in that new suit. Newt Butler, who runs the vil. | lage lynch room and who was once Hoover's playmate, has rather { quired the reputstion of being the ‘town’s “had boy,” because he made the asgertion prior to the nomina. {tion that “he once licked the Re- pubjican nominee for President,” and ‘that he, Butler, is a Democrat and s that “Hoover will have to change his politics if he wants | his old playmatc's vote.” Ilowever, Mrs. Carran voices the opinion of Ilhe 500 loyal members of the Hoo- ,ver club that “Newt Butler just makes her tired,” although she ad- mits he was a good boy and a gm»(l scholar, too. ' JORNSTONS CA'NDY “the sweet faced, ‘patient teacher | ‘who drilled into me the founda-: tions of preunt knowledge.” Busy, Smart and Quiet "neu;; @ good boy,” saye his foruer or. "A'Stth ex- eddings, Birt! nniveraries an W ds For ys, many | schooli| to Hu of artisls Around chumi culeses wing generation o the ant>. r of the Grande Ghaumiere Monday during the winter wds the haphazard, hap. mass of models 1ook- work. Pretty, most of Most ot the givls - are The fall of the franc cost of living, are folt Lm-.-p t00. Before the war the French girl generally - was relugse ltant to pose nude. Now she come pares studio life advantageously the stove oason i py-go-luc ing for them Frenc the high s SATISFIED WITH DETAILS DEATH OF SON gren Believes Story of Capt. Zappi annum-ad rrum Pale One) ice and he lay down. Quietly he stretched out his hand, bidding us adien and handing us his com- pass, requesting us to give it to his mother. “We plodded on siowly, and in twenty-four hours were mete from Malmgren. Malmgren raise his head “Hoping that, driven by hun- ger he would go on with us, we walted, Realizing this, Malm- gren cried: ‘Go! Go! At the price of my life, you'll save all.’ “We marched cn, suff great privation. One mile fr Brok Island Mariano became blind and again we drifted with the ice, We saw om six airplanes about a mile tant, (Russian Krassin) frantic “For aviator gfaboard. the saw us, despite signals. twelve days: we did (8] nuknflvqky s plnp@ begged to place his body aboard plane Tafter ; death; shoyld sin, lita,” . oy the account from Professor moilovich, as related to him Zappi, on , the, dirigible. and carthward head first, she ice, the passengers were hurtled 'rades. p The balloon was freed the tinued, “and rose skyward ‘distance, scon. to explode burst into flames. “The men fixed the radio could only hear, mnot, send. inte with the ‘dreary office routine or the stuffy workshop. tor pose for .a few wecks. “It's a goed life, | guess,” sald ofe little girl with a childish face, "hm you eat up in the summer feverything you make in the win- ftar. Are: you an arlist, sir? If out " been here mornin without even a 15- lr’m(' pose And such a crowd land no place to'sit down!” i The Paris thea have been undressing to such an extent that [cven the amateur mgdgls ace tom themselves qualckly §to posin in the nude. A few -i?flvelx the plirst time before thirty palrs of cool, appraising eyes and then it is as natural as to tha dre makers. Thir pieces . of coal are scratching thirty | vasses, Thirty glanc absorb the contours of the hgure. A new model has caught the nostalgia of the studios. e —— NOTICE The motorship Oregon will sail from Seattle - for Juneau August 1st. * Please wire aordersg direc or phone 114, Femmer Transfer, —adv. —————— EMFIRE HAS THE LARG- MOSSL UP-TO-DATE AND " BQUIPPED JDB PRINTING NT IN ALA3KA. try me oing TH] FOR HOME FOLKS The Oakland Circulator is a heater for “home folks. who want comfort, economy, convenience, and a handsome appearance. This. is a.Parlor Furnace thaf useés less fuel and gives more heat and longer se!’flce. Come in and let us cxplaln its advnntag« S. ivou had been I'd have asked you | M’ml»u taking previsions.” - — ERT Almquist, Press Your Suit. We call and deliver. Phone 528 - Mother of Dr. Finn Malm-| “During our wandering we saw dls- but none save Chuknovsky our not eat anything. Mariane, felt death - approaching and at. the sight of | me . the the flyer fand. Upph sceing the Kras- Mariano régained his ebbing . B woked Tha Italian crashed om May 24, by | went on, Thigk ice formed sank When the gomdola stfuck the out and the moetorist was killed and buried in the ice by his com- from gondola,” the radiogram con-| and but On May 30 Malmgren, Mariano and When she g went in the direetion of Cape is tired of working, sho goes oulfNerd, hoping to,meet Norwegian | From Chorus to Opera | | | only 100 Jane Carroll, beautiful Lofii# villle, Ky, mezzo-soprano, started her career in the chorus of a musical show, but studied incessantly night and day with her voice teachers. Her reward came when she was chosen by Signor Guilio Gatti-Casazza as . one of four young American firls who will appear at the etropolitan next season, flnternational Iliustrated Ne 'A. J. ELA IN FROM SPEEJ. RIVER WORK| A. J. Ela, in charge of the pow- er survey being conducted at Speel River, was an arrival on the America F'rst, yesterday evening, Work on survey for power | developments. is, progressing well, sald Mr. Jla, and weather been favorahle wiih the exc: July. | R. A Kenze, in charge Chandler intgrests, said August 4, Mr. week, he 1 | eisco about he will spend one or two days. NEW FORD SEDAN ... 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