The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1929, Page 3

N LT TTITITIALE With ZASU PITTS an d ETHEL CLAYTON COMING THURSDAY FOR 3 NIGHTS Richard Barthelmess in “THE DROP KICK” "lIlHHIlfllllllN_Hlfllm"llllllllllllIIIIIIIIII|IHIIHIlllIllllIHIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIHlll I|IIIIIIIIHIIIIHII Attractions At Theatres | “BEHIND THE FRONT” i | SHOWING AT COLISEUM || Behind the Front,” starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hat. | ton .opened to holiday busine: at| %he Coliseum last night. Bvidently this feature is a travesty on “The @t *Big Parade” There are rookies who go to war, have much | 'fun ‘there with ftheir sergeant and with mud, and return to America, | It is a good comedy. In fact i is nothing but comedy all the w through—a'picture of straight cor edy, burlesque and farce; tempt is made by 'the author flirect an appeal to the emotions| two | no or ‘to thrill, just playing to laugh- | ger. ! | The plat has been founded on| * ghé “Spoils, of W by Hugh| | Wiley. It s just built around mu[ | funny side of life: and goos | over big. ! Mary Brian iz ithe girl in the | cage but is almest lost sight of in the comedy situations. Tom Ken.- nedy is the sergeant and the oth: ers 'in ith8* ¢ast fill in their bits, but it is mosily Beery and Hatton. B e ) s “RISKY BUSINESS' k1 IS NOW AT PALACE Scoring an emphatic triumph h;‘ Jer artistry in her new star ple- | ture, “Risky Business,” Vera Roy- | nclds delighted large audiences at | the Palage ‘thealire yesterday. There| fis an excellent screen offering pre. ‘ setiting Miss ‘Reynolds in a highly | captivalting role, that cf a girl who facas the impertant question— | which is more important, marriage ' with a rich or poor man? The! Kuestion s adequately answered | by: the heroine after a series of | Uramatic and thrilling occurranc. es, mixed with comedy. There is a | sunprising climax. Kenneith Thompson, noted amgr! mplayer, makes his screen debut in| the picture as leading man and| ‘created a highly favorablo sion. Zasu Pitts, the inimitable, nd Ethel Clayton, a screen favor- | Jte, acquitted “themselves admir-| ably in featured roles. The sup- poriing cast as a whdle, 'was quite up (0 Lhe high De Mille standard. GRGANIST DREW Bl SPRINGS NEW ONE — Leon Drews, organist, at tha @©oliserm, sprung a new one last: night' and it went over big and| #vill bs repeated tonight. He played.an original selection, “Non-| #ense on the Organ,” jazzy, full of musical hits, ete. %BARTHELMESS AT l PALACE TOMORROW - An.all.star ' cast of exceptional aerit supponts Richard Barthel. | ess in “The Drop Kick,” First National's production of Katharine| 3 Brudn story of college footbali| life which comes to the Palace to-| morrow. Playing oppostte the star is Bar- bara Kent, a Wampas baby star, who has developed into a young | 1ad¥ cf high promise, An impoiitant role is played by wlbertd Vaughn, who was a star in her own right' in' séveral filma. ®orothy . Revier, dark, exotic vil- jainess, enacts the role of Brad Hathaway's wife, while Brad is; played by Eugene Strong~—who ‘was starred in several pictures several years ago. Hedda Hopper enats the role of | Barthelmess’ mother and Barbara’s mother is played by Mayme Kelso. ames Bradbury, who appearad fwith the star in “Classmates,” has e role of “Bonmes” Allen, rooks Benedict, who was with i parthelmess in “Ranson’s Folly,” does the part of Ed Pemberton. e WE b gt impres- | and || \PETE FARRELL’S FUNERAL TO BE HELD TOMORROW The funeral of Pete who died last Sunday at St. Ann’s T 1 some trapping tudy 1 cond a view of effective winter The stomachs of seven wolvas {taken by him sh after he went to Petersburg were examined. In all except one, 1y food con-| tents were deer r f of the inroads m m on | deer” he was found Where the Ive | ous, Mr. Stewar {are scarcest, and w A not many wolves, are Farrell { most " HEAVY DAMAGE BY WOLVES IN THIS DISTRICT Number Overestimated but Damage Done to Deer Herds Is Serious are probably not as Southeastern Ala eved th. are are doing a whol according to R. K rritorial predatory ani- who has been working two year: 3 in an ¢ 1 wolves and coyotes and lessen the damages done by them to cther species of wild life. Mr. Stewart has' beem in th Petersburg « di ct for e three and one-l montl and plentiful Two men with a properly equip- Hospital will be held tomorrow ! ped small boat could wage ¢ |morning at 10 o’clock in the|tive warfare on wolves on the Catholic Church Rev. Gabriel|jands of Southeastern Alaska, he Menanger will officiate and in-|declared. It might not be prac. [terment will be in Bvergreen|iicahle to rminaté them, but Cemetery. The body been at|ineir numbers conld be greatly r Emporium, left on the Prin $|a Federal prisoner to Mary Tuesday for the States on his|From Seattle he went to 9 annual buying ‘trip. He will h» fornia and enjoyed a short vaca- ‘absent several weeks lmn HE age 'old insfitation, T marriage, camé'in for un- expected support along Broadway of status of “friend] husband” in' prominent actréss’! lives, S e Gilda Gray, lower center, who said yesterday in Milwau- kee that she considered a hus- band the greatest drawback an} actress can have, found other actresses all for the “down trodden” “other half.” Every actress had something good to say about’ husbands. I Here’s their comment: ' * * = KATHERINE CORNELL, left center, wife of Guthrie Mc- Clintic, who directs all of her P i i.veeen-da s o tirely, - Success in a career and marnage need have nothing to trom | FR. Gets Farm Award George M. Putnam, farmer of Concord, N. H., received the first distinguished service award of the American Farm Bureau federation at the annual convention ia Chi- |’ | cago. The award Is to be glven ! annually to person rendering great- | est service to agriculture during year. 8 U. S. Wants to Export i More Flour to Brazil 1 - g RIO DB NEIRO, Jar 2. Brazil ranks fifth ng foreign nations as purchs States flour and North agents have been m tional effort to increase the mar- ket One of the largest’ mills in the | Northwest has had a special rep- resentative in Brazil for ma months traveling from the zon in the north to below Saq Paulo interesting Both” importersd and bakers in North American | flour, and with optimistic results. Figures compiled by the United | States Trade Commissioner here how that Brazil bought Ameri- “lcan flour in 19 to the extent of 958,000 barrels valued at more and in 1 tie 54,000 ,000. Figure but it is be: ar will e prev- than $7,500,000 ba are lieved tha | exceed it ions two ple imports t e of eithe vernment will pay out about $200,000 - in. pensions this vear to 5,130,000 ex-service orphans and bgher dependent the Juneau Mortuar, ting ! quced and the damage"dene large. arrangements. |1y controlled Mr. Farrell YA QML T M Ghen it resantly ik ' the time of Helpis field notes, personal property was a native of Ireland and came and cther effects when the gasboa {to ‘America when a young man. | o oot ot s using . in {He had lived in Alaska for 40, " o 0 "o =0 C ed by fi years and had a part in’ all of)n® WOU& WS Wkt Forr. the greater gold rushes during # o R “obialn the early days. His life wi al s ate et filled with adventure from e e v P “|early age. For years he drove|C¢htnue his “lan eight horse stage in Montana | Mainder of the winter n that country was a wild{turn to Petersburg Hget i frontier and it was there that|Admiral Rog hb was given the.name of “Mon-| . o o e "“‘v’i'l’h 'h‘!’x‘“ J“?""”’”:’!i‘\)“ :ib\"‘:}‘“, States District Attorney, arrived | nhiie that (He was -known | % oudesd on ks Afamseds | throughout the Territory Eeglcwhanacha)has fednd (O] At his death the pioneers of q - mes Juneau ca vard and it is ) 2 through their Ehryt the|T0NGp S DEGtHER {man is' heing’ given a burial be-! ' L ToEeeIT L e o §, Marshal here, returned from z | the: south on the steamer Ala A. H. Pessemier. head of > meda. | Mr. Statter left Juneay shoe department of Goldstein’s{abcut a month ago to accorpany latives. | Sixteen per cent’of the appli- cations have been rejected. They number ,000. Payments run anes to 19,125 i |t Ivearly 103 women should marry in order to have a life other than one *ene another, Stage|of constant plav-acting,” | band can be in the way if he’s CHAMPION MOTHERS BERLIN and a sauce sian Jan. 2.—A cup from the Prus- factory as a re- German her State porcelain after the who will her ward serve brave mot u rers GERMANY WILL HONOR [ | | | | twelfth child into the world. 7 Ministery of Health | | and Welfare has decided |hn | effi in child | shou be and | and 1cer tosbe known as | | ‘mothers’ cup,” designed Ove 150 such cups are || awa the completion of | | the first dozen in productive | | yuseholds. The Ministr parently figures generously | { | for during 1927 only eighty } twe 1 babies arrived. I Conn.—No slang en Juage Arthu: late in Superior arriving Court | explained that he had| bheen takin gas “Blame it on the” dentist I am cross with the lawy he said, ,ee - SWEDEN LIKES MOVIES POCKHOL 3¢ ,500 spent in 101 «\.un\n cities on dmission fees to theatrs mov- houses, sporti and nusements last year, the rt was spent on cine- > e JUNEAU GIRL IS ON HONOR ROLL | | ; Naghel, Juneau girl { and graduate of the Juneau High school, made the honor froll with 42 others at the Che- | ney Normal scheol, according i | to advices received here by || Supt. W. K. Keller. i R — | GOLF CHAMPIONS SING - I kovNo—1he golt champions s Of Lithuania, Kipras Petranskas| nd Marion Rakanskaik, are both ind opera stars in the same cempany — . GENDARMES WANT | ELEGANCE PARIS—French gendarmes fear | W tae:r Now the Govern- ment threaten to revoke the privileg - - J. M. Guffey was a passenger au on the Alameda from Mr. Guffey is interdsted in the Buter-Mauro Drug Store | and is making his annual trip north in connhection with' the | busin L] FRANCESWILLIAMS, right center, says: “Any hus- not the right man. I have seen successful actresses who were married and others who were single—every case is diffcrent.” * % =% ANNPENNINGTON right: “Gilda Gray may be right. But never having been married myself I really couldn’t say. I should think hushands could be of great help. But t! one must first find the husband one really and truly loves.” £ " NORMA TERRIS, left: Per- ally 1 am unable to state &’ effect of husbands upon THF DAILY AIAQKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, l‘)z}) pillowed o, 'whigh he' droam earth, and the top of it rea careers, not having had many husbanda ~ ternational Newsreel) TONIGHT 9:25 m:“ SHT QLE.%?%HM THE WORLD’S GREATEST COMEDY ‘Behind the Front” with Wallace Beery Ruymond Hatton in A comedy jammed with laughs with even the subtitles uproars LEON F. DREWS Offers “MUSICAL NONSENSE” An Organ Novelty with a B—A—-N—G Fun For Everybody lu-rnmly picked up by a native em- Town Refuses to Move I;m,n-, at Bad Hope Diggings in Darkly West. (13 S 22498 is the est dla Colu/mn lvlt’l a Curae It is the biggest diamond ever | found in alluvial diggings and was —_ sold for $22,000. The .merchant AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 3 . | who bought it said that he would Tl e Gusher Brings Fortune have paid $120,000 it the stone ha@ lowed “the column with a curse’ To Mflthm‘less Children Peen pure white. The world’s biggest diamond, the to stand in the middle of the side- | Rl G al SUNNYDALE, Kas, Jan. 2—oit, [Cullinan, welghed just over 3,000 paving program made practicable’ renowned for its gifts of sudden |COrat The Kohinor dismond, hes the removal of the queer relic of a|wealth, Is spouting i a new 1\1”“,\"”" botng cut, weighed. about 909 Lo dDE Cliry gt e b el carats, It was cut down to 106 P u § r £ ¢ am! in Privisa ¢ £ b B i - >- o o ot h i 1 gince a tormado hit Augusia in' The discovery well in the new| = lucky man is o 105z OWR 1878, Old citizens say that an|proqueing territory is on the Good. OF Whose wife's velatives have nat itinerant minister, claiming the gift| jch farm. With a daily output “hmatlu anymore of a howling sis of prophecy, predicted that thel7000 barrells it is the xbxx:esuc‘”s of life than he has. B oa old market* house ‘would be de-|ghsher’ Kansd§ “has Eeen in 10 ot stroyed the day after his sermon.lyears It “came in” without warn.! The trouble with ‘a womin who | He declared that but one of the|jng drenching the surrounding CArries her head so high'is thst big pillars supporting the market|gialds in oil |she gets her nose too elewfi house would be left standing and pool of “black’ gold” tour tolbe lkeable. e — v A man’ has both ears and but when his eyes get tired it from feasting them so much on lady who wearies his ears. declared that any attempt to move the pillar_would be fatal; that the| person who tried it would be struck by lightning. As it happened, a tornado hit this town the nest day and only one pillar of the market house was| wen js loeated was left, to the fam.. left standing. ~Some years ag0ljy hy the mother when she died | city officials said the pillar would |1 years ago. Goodrich has an 18- | have to be dt'»n.nyo(l to permit cer- vear-old daughter, Arlene, and a| tain street repairs. A large num-|yg vear old son, Dule: ber of workmen capried the pila five feet deep and’ covering’ an acre of ground was formed as the neighboring farmers with teams hurriedly constructed ditches and dirt dams. The 80-acre fanm on which tho about 50 feet There w ! B : and ]vlhwy L(;rn;lpetlhll A\l:M'Kimberley Miner Finds { today the pillar stands where the 5 a workmen dropped it whon sc Diamond of 282 Carets practical joker exploded a URacker. KIMBRKLY, Soutin Africa, Jan. 2.—A diamond the size, of a hen’s l'egg and welghing 282 carats was PATRIOTIC SCOTS WANT TO RESCUE STONE OF SCONE! By DOROTHY RUSSELL (A. P, Staff Writer) LONDON, Jan. 2—A 'plot to steal the “Stone of Destiny” from the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey, recently digelesed ;here, is & said to an cpening move in a reyolutionary program plauned by . 3 N . ! o Capital Electric Compan They aim to bring to a ‘head the " " -2 objective for which many Seots|| Radio Supplies PHONE 416 House have long beew working, the res- toration of Scotland’s national identity, and her self-government through a parliament of her own, similar to the Ulster parliament in Northern Ireland. The plans of these fiory youths to raid the Abbey, carry off the| stone and deposit’it with the Lord Provost of Perth, would, if suc-| FLORSHEIM cesstul, fittingly symbolize Scot-| land’s declaration of independ | SHOES Known as the Stone of Scono, l‘ ¢ | Electrie Toasters See our line of Guarantéed Electrical Appliances o the e Stone of Destiny,” upon which gs of England have sat at their coronat fcr almost seven hun- dred years, had formerly becn part of the throne i the kirgs of| Scotland from time immemorial | It was brought from the Abhey of at Chicago Prices Scone, sceme of Scottigh corona-| tions, by Edward I first ol the) kings of a united England and| Scotland, and since 1296 has rest-| ed beneaih the hard wooden seat| of the coronation chair used by| Britain’s cuccessive monarchs. it} cbl A venerable tradition eredits as being the stone on which Jac H. 5. GRAVES The €lothing Man to heaven,” and which he afte fwards anointed with oil and sat Ilpi for a pillar of “God"’s house.” The fact that it is a piece of Secottish red sandstone, however, discounts the fact that the Stom® of Destiny could have originate” dfh the land| of Jacob. "